DESIGNING A STRAWBERRY 



TO BEAR THE YEAR 



AROUND 



AND OTHER WORK WITH STRAWBERRIES 



A PLANT enthusiast was explaining the 

 functions of plant life one day to that 

 most appreciative and stimulative of all 

 audiences, a company of school children. 



He had told of the supreme importance of the 

 seed how nature must first and foremost think 

 of that, because it is the link between successive 

 generations of plants ; the only means of assuring 

 a continuance of the race. To bring the illustra- 

 tion home, he had said that the seed is the very 

 heart of the plant. 



A little miss who had absorbed every word 

 with the eager receptivity of the child mind 

 looked up quickly as he finished and said: 



"Then the strawberry is a plant that wears its 

 heart on its sleeve, isn't it?" 



It is only the imagination of children or of 

 the chance individual here and there who remains 



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