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the next one (Fig. 101) shows you the pine just starting 
out in the world, with its six seed leaves. 
When you study the botany that is written for older 
people, you will find that plants are set apart in separate 
groups, according to the number of their seed leaves. 
Strange though it may seem to you, plants with but 
one seed leaf have certain habits that you will not find 
in a plant with two seed leaves; and a plant with two 
seed leaves, long after these have passed away, will show 
by root and stem that it had more than one seed leaf. 
_ In your schoolroom garden I should like you to grow 
side by side, first a plant with but one seed leaf, next a 
plant with two seed leaves, and lastly a plant with more 
than two. 
Si Seon CON 
WANT you to think for yourselves why it is fortu- 
nate for us human beings that many plants store 
away in their seeds so much baby food. 
“Because without this the little plants would die, and 
we should have no new plants to make the world beauti- 
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ful to live in,” some child replies. 
That answer is a good one; but it is not just the 
answer that I wish. 
Can you think of any other way in which we all 
benefit by the large supply of baby food that is packed 
away in certain seeds? 
If the right answer to this question does not occur to 
you, try to remember which of those seeds we have 
