28 Lessons in Nature Study. 



horse-chestnuts, corn, and other large seeds show great 

 diversity in size, shape, and position of the scar. 



II. The Little Gate. Tell the children that inside the 

 seed is a little baby plant, and that there is a little gate or 

 door where it can come out when it gets big enough. 



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FIG. \a. 



Then the little opening (micropyle) just below the scar 

 on the bean is pointed out, and the children are told to find 

 the little gate on other seeds. This will be hard to do 

 in some seeds, for the little gate is sometimes merely a 

 pore that can only be found with a needle-point. It is 

 worth the search, however, for it will bring out the fact that 



