GERMINATION SEEDS, GROWTH SEEDLINGS 185 



LESSON LVII 



GERMINATION OF SEEDS AND GROWTH OF SEEDLINGS 



Plant-food in seeds. Plants, like animals, must have 

 food and drink, and like animals they perish without 



FIG. 52. GROWING CORN 



them. "We have told what some of these plant foods are, 

 and now we shall find out the way in which the young 

 plants get their first food. You will remember the little 

 bean plant which you saw snugly tucked between the 

 two halves of the seed. These two fleshy cotyledons, as 



