Baby Plants 



The leaf-like appendages put forth from a germinating 

 plant when it first comes from the ground are called cotyle- 

 dons. The entire coteries of higher plants are divided into two great 

 classes, accordingly as their germinating stalks put forth one or two 

 cotyledons. All the plants with which one deals in the garden are 

 di-cotyledons, like those here shown. The cotyledons are uniformly 

 smooth in contour (Mr. Burbank has seen but a single ex- 

 ception to this in his entire experience), and they 

 serve as a reserve supply of food while the 

 young leaves are getting under wag. 



