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How the pupils of the plant school shouted when they 

 heard the glad news: 



"Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! 

 Nuts a-plenty ! 

 Nuts in two years 

 'Stead of twenty/' 



CHAPTER XL 



THE SEED ROOM 



Before leaving the plant school we must take a peep 

 into the large, light seed room. There are shelves at the 

 sides of the room from floor to ceiling, on which the seeds 

 are arranged alphabetically. No doubt you can readily 

 tell some of the seeds on the A and B shelves, but what 

 seeds fill the X, Y, and Z shelves? 



The larger and heavier seeds are in strong cloth bags; 

 then there are paper bags of all sizes down to the little 

 seed packages seen on sale at the stores. 



On the long work table is a pair of delicately balanced 

 scales, and tiny measuring cups, some of which are less than 

 one-fourth the size of a thimble; yet some seeds are too 

 small for even this measure, and are lifted on the point of 

 a penknife. 



After the seeds have been carefully gathered, dried, and 



