THE WAY OF A SEED 



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develop darts which they shoot into the mud, the water 

 plants send out swimming and sailing seeds and bits of plants 

 which may make great voyages. 



The making and sowing of seed is the greatest task of 



THE IVY-LEAVED TOAD FLAX SETTING ITS SEED IN CRANNIES 



nature, and in the stages of the process the seasons are 

 written in characters that we all delight to study. With the 

 coming of autumn the sowing comes to a finish and another 

 work begins again, a fact proclaimed in spacious scrolls over 

 thousands of our fields of England lined with the blades of 



