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girls to eat their fruit. So we must find some other 
answer. 
Think for a moment, and then tell me what you find 
inside every apple. 
b) 
“ Apple seeds,” one.of you replies. 
And what is the use of these apple seeds ? 
“Why, they make new apple trees!”’ 
If this be so, if every apple holds some little seeds 
from which new apple trees may grow, does it not look 
as though an apple were useful and important because 
it yields seeds ? 
And what is true of the apple tree is true of other 
plants and trees. The plant lives to bear fruit. The 
fruit is that part of the plant which holds its seeds; 
and it is of importance for just this reason, that it holds 
the seeds from which come new plants. 
THE’ WORLD WITHOUT -PEAN®S 
E have just learned that the fruit is important 
because it holds the plant’s seeds; and we know 
that seeds are important because from them come the 
new plants for another year. Let us stop here one 
moment, and try to think what would happen if plants 
should stop having seeds, if there should be no new 
plants. 
We all, and especially those of us who are children, 
carry about with us a little picture gallery of our very 
own. In this gallery are pictures of things which our 
