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NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 



The other seed had a long time to wait. But it grew by and 

 by into a beautiful rose. At last it had the highest honor ever 

 granted to a flower. What was that, do you think ? 



(Adapted from DAVID ELGINBROD, by GEORGE MACDONALD.) 



LESSON VII 



THE GERANIUM AND ITS SEED 



Geraniums are well known by their 

 pretty red and white blossoms. They 

 bloom freely and are hardy house plants, 

 but they do not often bear seed in the 

 house. Indeed, we frequently cut off the 

 blossoms to prevent their going to seed. 

 Wild geraniums and geraniums growing 

 out of doors in the summer time do bear 

 seeds. Their seeds are very curious, for 

 they cannot fly about like the maple or 

 dandelion, and they are not often thrown 

 about like the apple and peach seeds, but 

 they fall and bury themselves in the 

 ground. 



As the geranium has five sepals to its 

 calyx and five petals to its corolla, so it has five curious seed pods 

 that grow close together around a common center. Each seed 



WILD GERANIUM 



