6. Slip the pink _corolla_ up the wire stem until over the wound wire. Spread the _stamens_ out to prevent the corolla from slipping off.
7. Fit the beeswax over the wound wire to form the _calyx_ cup; and pack a tiny bit of yellow tissue paper into the opening of the corolla _under the stamens_.
8. Wind the _calyx cup_ with the green tissue paper calyx which you cut by the pattern, and fasten the end with a tip of glue.
9. Run a fine wire in and out through the stems of the foliage.
10. Cut a piece of green tissue paper eleven inches long and one inch wide. Commencing at the green _calyx_ cup, wind the stem of the rose with this green strip of paper. Half way down, insert the _petiole_ of the foliage, or leaves, under the strip, and continue winding to the end of the stem. Fasten the end by winding with fine wire.
There! you have the flower, and you know the names of the parts as well as Billy and Mary Frances know them.
EVERY boy or girl who will carefully make up the Mary Frances Garden Cut-Outs, and will study the lists of flowers printed on the reverse side of each garden, will very soon become familiar with the name, season of bloom, and appearance of the best-known perennials. Notice the artistic effect of “massing,” or grouping the same kind of plants close together.
In order to recognize the flowers mentioned in the lists, turn to Chapters VII, VIII, IX, and X, to read descriptions.
1. Turn to the picture of Mary Frances’ Play House before the Children Planted the Gardens.
Cut along the red lines A, B, C, on the edge of the picture; and D in center of grass plot.
2. Turn to Mary Frances’ Garden Cut-Out No. 1—Early Spring Hardy Garden.
Cut along the edges of each colored portion.
3. Insert the little flaps A, B, C, D, of the cut-out portions into the openings A, B, C, D.
Garden No. 2—Early Summer Hardy Garden. Garden No. 3—Mid-Summer Hardy Garden. Garden No. 4—Late Summer or Early Fall Hardy Garden.
You will be delighted with the fairy-like way in which you have changed the landscape in front of the picture of Mary Frances’ Play House; but the pictures give only a slight idea of the beauty of the real gardens which Billy and Mary Frances made. In order to see how beautiful the flowers are, you will have to plant your own real gardens.