CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE INFANCY OF THE PLANT. 
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The Birth-place of the Plant.—The Coco-nut.—The Water- 
nut.—Rice.—Corn.—Influence of Water, Air, and Heat.—Effect 
of boiling on Seeds.—Sleep of Seeds.—Sixteen hundred years’ 
sleep of some Raspberry Seeds\—Mummy-wheat —The Man- 
grove.—Sailor’s Sea-garden.—Experiments on Seeds.—The 
young Plant.—Vegetable tissue under the Microscope.— Minute 
cells: their office.—Chemical nature of Seeds.— Malting.—Ger- 
mination.—Seeds want Air.—Mosses.—Fungi.— Ferns.—Sea- 
weeds.—Red Snow.—Viviparous Plants.—Art of making Trees 
out of Leaves.—Simplicity of the means employed in quickening 
Seeds into life. 
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CHAPTER II. 
THE YOUTH OF THE TREE. 
Beauty of youth.— Formation of woody fibre. — Concentric 
rings.—Preparations for Winter.— The first year ended.—In- 
