A LEGEND OF THE PANSY.
CO XT IX EXT A L C H I.L Dl l EX'S
STORY
A pretty fable about tlie pansy is popular among tho Erench and German children. The flower has five petals aud five sepals. In most pansies, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals are plain in color and three are gay. The two plain petals have a single sepal, two of the gay petals have a sepal each, and the third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable is that the pansy represents a family consisting cf husband, wife and lour daughters, two of the latter being step-children of the wife. The plain petals are the stop-children, with only one chair; the two small gay petals are the daughters, witli a (hair each, and the large gay petal is the wife, with two chairs, lo find the father one must strip away the net als until the stamens and pistils are hare. Then have a fanciful resemblance to an old man./.with a flannel wrap around his neck, his shoulders upraised. and Irs feet in a hath tub. Ibe story is .probably of French origin, because the French call the pansy the stepmother. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3142, 11 February 1911, Page 10
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209A LEGEND OF THE PANSY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3142, 11 February 1911, Page 10
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