PLANTS SOWING THEIR SEEDS 



What happens when a flower fades and dies? Is 

 that all that there is to the life of a plant, to grow, 

 and to blossom, and to die? Is there nothing left, 

 in the autumn, after all the effort of growing and 

 blossoming during the summer but a dry, dead 

 plant? 



The seeds are left, the millions and millions of 

 seeds of all shapes and sizes and colors; wrapped in 

 a thousand different kinds of wrappings, and scat- 

 tered in a thousand different ways. The seeds are 

 the legac}^ which each plant leaves to the world. In- 

 stead of that one plant which grew in that spot during 

 the summer, there will be many more plants just like 

 it from the seeds which it sows. 



Earth's garment must not fail, and each plant 

 does its best to provide for more and better plants 

 than itself when its growth shall be stopped and its 

 life shall be over. That is God's law. It is the law 

 for everything, even for a little plant, even for the 

 cold, hard rocks, to go on and on to better things. 



Now as the purpose of each plant is to blossom and 

 bear seeds, there must be every arrangement for 

 keeping them safe while they grow, and for scattering 

 them when they are ripe. 



Have you ever noticed how carefully the seeds are 

 kept in the different plants? How they are hidden 



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