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reason that this is not so well stored with baby food as 
to be able to do more than get its seed leaves well 
under way. 
The pea, like the bean, is so full of food, that it also 
is able to take care of a second pair of leaves. 
But now to go back to the young bean plant i 
in the schoolroom garden. We were wonder- Vie 
ing why the two halves of the bean, which are oe 
really the first pair of leaves, kept growing 
thinner and smaller as the second pair grew e: 
- Jarger. Fittest 
Perhaps you guess now the reason for this. 
These first leaves, called the seed leaves, feed all the 
rest of the young bean plant. 
Of course, as they keep on doing this, they must 
themselves shrink away; but they do not cease with 
their work till the plant is able to take care of itself. 
By this time, however, the seed leaves have nothing 
left to live upon. They die of starvation, and soon 
fade and disappear. 
So now you understand just what has happened to 
the leaves that once were so fat and large. 
And I hope you will remember the difference between 
the seed of the morning-glory and that of the bean, 
—how the morning-glory packs the baby food inside 
the seed, of course, but ow¢tszde the baby plant; while 
the bean packs it inside the two seed leaves, which are 
so thick that there is no room for anything else within 
the seed coat. 
But really, to understand all that I have been telling 
you, you must see it for yourselves; you must hold in 
