TREE SEEDS OF MANY KINDS 



How Nature Plants the Tree 



THERE are "mother" and "father" trees in 

 the forest. The mother trees are called "seed- 

 trees," and from them come the seeds that will 

 some day grow into large trees too. The seeds 

 grow with the buds and leaves in the top of the 

 tree. Some trees have seeds on them every 

 year, while on others there are seeds only once in 

 every three or four years. In late summer and 

 early fall the seeds ripen, and Nature makes 

 ready for the planting. 



The seeds from all the different forest trees are 



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