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ni'.X I was a )'(Hini4- i^irl I can well 



**»(¥% remember how much 1 loni^^efl for 

 1^ some simple book that would help 



'^"^^ • '"^ ^*' learn, not merely the name of 

 a plant and what class and order it be- 

 longed to, but s(jmethinLi about its life-histor)-. 



It seemed very wonderful that, if I put seeds 

 into the ground, dry and dead as they looked, 

 I might feel sure young plants would presently 

 come up ; that, if I planted an acorn, a young 

 oak-tree would in due time be seen ; but how all 

 this came to pass I could not discover. I had 

 access to an excellent librar}-, but although I 

 4 searched there liour after hour, and found main' 

 a learned book about plants, the>- might as well 

 1 have been written in Sanskrit for all I could 



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