Raising flowers
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
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- Raising flowers
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- 1940
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- November, 1940 Raising Flowe~ By RAMON SIN THE YOUNG CITIZEN +35 CLUB Our English Club Collecting Butterflies ·By MAMINTAL TAMANO By ESTRELLA G. REYES (I I YEARS OLD) ( l I YEARS OLD) ( 14 YEARS OLD} ONE of the nicest things.for IN OUR ROOM at school we COLLECTING moths and buta schoolboY. or a girl to do have organized an English tertlies has been my pleasin leisure time is to raise Club. The members of this ant outdoor work for severtlowers. I have a beautiful club agree to use no !an- al years. When do I find flower garden just in front guage except English at time to do any collecting? of our house. It is rectan- school. The purpose of This is the· way I do it. gular in form, ten by twelve this club is to help us in the Each day as I go io and meters, and is enclosed by a use of English· and to make from school I am on the bamboo fence. us feel at home in speaking lookout for specimens. I At a distance the garden it. This is because English am always prepared to take presents a variety of colors. is the medium of instruc- care of any specimens There are sampaguita flow- tion in the Philippines. which I may capture, and ers, hibiscus (gumamelas), When we organized our I get some that way occacadena-de-amor, and dif- club, the first thing which sionally. ferent varieties of roses. In we did was to elect officers. Then on Saturdays, if I the center of my garden Our teacher appointed a have no work for mother, there is a statue. Around "detective" who is not I go on a collecting trip. this statue I have roses known to the club members. One Saturday I had very growing. Near the roses This "detective" reports good luck and took many are clusters of lilies. In each those members whom he specimens in one of the of the four corners are hi- hears using the dialect at fields to which I went. biscus bushes, and along the school. The offender has to Sometimes I collect a sides are sampaguitas. pay a fine. We use the few specimens on Sundays. Each morning I gather money thus collected for And of course when we are ·flowers in my garden. Then improving our room. having vacation I have I remove any old or dry We are all interested in many a pleasant ·and suc"Jeaves. I fill a vase full of our club, and it is a success- cessful collecting trip. flowers which I am careful ful organization. When I get some specimens I put them in a large to arrange attractively. In Arrangement. These sug- glass containeF. This conthe March, 1940, number of gestions help me to make tains a chemical which kills THE YOUNG CITIZEN I · a mce arrangement of my them quickly and painlessread Suggest~ons on Flower cut flowers. (Please turn to page 437.)