1 6 The Bean Plant. 



The leaves have two great duties, to eat and 

 to breathe. How do you suppose the leaf does 

 this eating and breathing? 



Of course, you say it must have a mouth. It has 

 not one mouth only, but hundreds of mouths. You 

 cannot see these mouths without a microscope. 

 Most of them are on the underside of the leaf. 



Have you ever thought how much comes from a 

 single bean ? You put a bean into the ground. A 

 vine grows from it. It blossoms. Then come the 

 pods, and in the pods are beans like the one you 

 planted. 



