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field that will show you how the trunk of the palm tells 
us that this tree began life with only one seed leaf. 
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Writ DONE Lit teh Sirens 
T is wonderful how much there is to learn about 
everything. 
We began this book with an apple, and I had no 
more idea than you that that apple was going to keep 
us busy for days. 
And then the apple reminded us of its cousins, the 
pear and plum and peach and cherry and rose. And 
if we had not stopped short, we should have been intro- 
duced to so many more cousins that we should have 
had neither room nor time for anything else. 
From fruits we went to seeds. 
At first it seemed almost as though we ought to 
finish up the seeds in two or three readings; but this 
did not prove to be the case. 
The mere naming of the different ways in which 
seeds went traveling, covered so many pages that it 
was all we could do to find time to tell how a few of 
the baby plants were cared for, and how they made 
their way out of the seed shell into the world. 
But when we came to roots, we felt there would be 
no temptation to loiter by the way, for roots seemed 
rather dismal things to talk about. Yet it took some 
little time to show the different uses of a root, and to 
talk about air roots and water roots, as well as earth 
