Cat Tail

Cat Tail, growing in the marsh,

Thought his Mother very harsh,

Because she wouldn't let him play

With Blue Flag-lilies all the day.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Cat Tail's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the flower illustrations and verse from "Flower Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

The scientific name for Cattails is Typha latifolia. Read more about these plants here.

• Back to the Flower Children Index. 
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• How to trim cattails for cooking

Get to know cat tails by New York

 Botanical Garden

Merry little Cat-tails,
Will you tell me true,
Do the fays and brownies
Come and play with you?
"When the moon shines brightly
In the summer weather
Of'en times they dance with us,
Dancing all together."

by John C. Gilbert.