PART |= YOUNG -EPLANTS 
POW. DHE BABY PLANT: LIVES 
HEN these little seeds at last find a good resting 
place, what do you think happens to them? 
They grow into new plants, of course. But how does 
this come about? How does a seed turn into a plant ? 
I could hardly expect you to guess this, any more 
than I could have expected you to guess how the apple 
flower changes into the apple fruit. I will tell you a 
little about it; and then I hope your teacher will show 
you real seeds and real plants, and prove to you that 
what I have said is really so. 
Of course, you believe already that I try to tell you 
the exact truth about all these things. But people far 
wiser than [I have been mistaken in what they 
thought was true; and so it will be well for you 
to make sure, with your own eyes, that I am right 
in what I say. 
If you should cut in two the seed of that beau- 
Fic. 84 
tiful flower the garden peony, and should look at 
it very closely through a good magnifying glass, you 
would find a tiny object such as you see in the half 
seed shown in this picture (Fig. 84). Both your eyes 
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