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Photo 105, Easily Grown. 



seed. You examine the cotyledons, the plumule and radicle. 

 You step back five hundred feet from the great Rathbone Elm. 

 You hold up this little, new born, baby tree, then you look at the 

 monarch of two centuries. Removing your hat, you draw near; 

 you pluck one of its leaves ; you are struck with its beauty ; you 

 look at its petiole, veinlets and veinulets ; you admire its serated 

 edge, (see Photo 89.) and if you have a microscope, you examine 

 the parenchvma cells and stomata ; and involuntarily you ex- 

 claim, "It is fearfully and wonderfully made!" 



When we come to the subject of creative forces and under- 

 stand how bodies are built and all parts of the food separated 

 and carried to and used in their right places, the toad knows just 

 as much as the man, and the tree comprehends as much as the 

 toad. In this particular, all are on a level. An independent cre- 

 ative influence is operating alike on rattle-snake, horse and man; 

 on grape-vine, rose and tree ; on tulip, thistle and thorn ; on mil- 

 dew, mold and mushroom ; everywhere from the highest to the 

 lowest all are moved and controlled by that great, incomprehen- 

 sible something that we call "Life." 



