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walnut do not grow together, as you know. Each one 
is packed away separately in half of the walnut shell. 
The corn has but one seed teak" whem 
makes it unlike all the other plants about 
which we have been reading; but it resem- 
bles the pea, the acorn, the walnut, and the 
chestnut in this, — that the one seed leaf 
lies buried. an the earth} as do- them 
two seed. leaves. 
The baby corn plant is very small. It does not 
fill the whole seed shell, but gets its nourishment 
from the food by which it is surrounded. 
This picture shows you a seed or grain of corn 
cut in two (Fig. 98). Of course, this is much larger 
than lite: \-In the center-you> sée “the “my ‘plank 
All about is the baby food. 
The next picture (Fig. 99) shows you the young 
corn plant. 
I want you to remember that this is the only 
plant we have seen with but one seed 
leaf. This one seed leaf never comes 
out “of “the seed’ shell “ Therepare 
other plants of the same kind. All 
the grass plants have but one seed 
leaf, and the blue flag that grows in 
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wet meadows, and all the lilies. 
Only a few plants have more than two. 
of these seed leaves. The pine trees are 
among these few. This picture (Fig. 100) 
shows you a baby pine tree, still cradled 
in its seed, surrounded by baby food; and 
