VII. SCIENCE IN HER CELLS. 



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floors, or ceilings ? I want to know what's the use of it? 

 why doesn't it grow bigger with the rest of the tree? 

 when does the tree ' consolidate itself ? when is it finally 

 consolidated ? and how can there be always marrow in it 

 when the weary frame of its age remains a mere scarred 

 tower of war with the elements, full of dust and bats? 

 c lle will tell you if only you go on patiently,' thinks 



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the reader. He will not! Once your modern botanist 

 gets into cells, he stays in them. Hear how he goes on ! 

 "This cell is a sort of sack; this sack is completely 

 closed ; sometimes it is empty, sometimes it" is full? 

 no, that would be unscientific simplicity: sometimes it 

 " conceals a matter in its interior." " The marrow of 

 young trees, such as it is represented in Figure 2-i (Fi- 

 guier. Figs. 38, 39, p. 42), is nothing else" (indeed !) 



