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been reading about have been supplied with a specially 
large amount of this food. 
You remember that the bean holds so much baby 
food in its seed leaves, that these are very fat. So do 
the pea, the walnut, and the chestnut. The seed of 
corn, also, is well filled with baby food, only in the corn 
seed it is packed around the outside of the seed leaves, 
instead of the inside. 
But the squash, although it puts in its seed leaves 
enough food to keep its young plant well and hearty, 
does not lay by any great quantity of this material. 
Neither does the maple tree, which also stores the seed 
leaves with food, but does not fill them nearly so full 
as do the bean and the pea. 
And the morning-glory, which packs its precious 
white jelly (this is what the little morning-glory plant 
likes to eat) all about its young, lays up only just 
enough of this to last until the baby plant breaks out 
of its seed shell. 
Now, what difference do we find between these seeds ? 
—hbetween the seeds of squash, morning-glory, and 
maple, which have only a small supply of baby food, 
and those other ones, such as bean and pea and corn 
and walnut and chestnut, which are packed full of 
nourishment ? 
‘“Why, these last ones are good to eat!” you exclaim. 
“They are part of the food we live upon, while the 
squash seeds, the morning-glory seeds, and the maple 
seeds are not good to eat.” 
Yes, that is the answer which I wished. The baby 
food in these seeds makes “ grown-up” food for us. 
