214 
PLANT PACKAGES 
N your walks through the woods these 
spring days I want you to notice the 
neat and beautiful way in which 
plants do their packing; for the 
woods now are full of plant 
packages, — little bundles of 
leaves and flowers, done up 
with the greatest care. 
Some of these have just 
appeared above the ground. 
Others have burst from the 
branches of the trees and shrubs. 
Of course, a plant. does 
not like to send its young, 
delicate leaves and flowers 
into the cold world without wrapping them up, any 
more than your mother would like to send your baby 
brother out for the first time without a great deal of 
just such bundling-up. 
And so well wrapped are many of these plant babies, 
that it is not an easy matter to guess just what they are, 
what kinds of leaves and flowers will appear when the 
wrappings have been thrown aside. 
Sometimes the package looks like the sharp-pointed 
object in the picture at the head of this chapter (Fig. 
207). Soon the leaves push their way out of their 
papery envelope, and before long our friend Jack-in-the- 
pulpit himself appears. 
