SEED SOWING 205 



There evidently must be other more efficient 

 means for scattering seeds than shaking them out 

 of the seed-pods upon the ground near by. Let us 

 examine some of these mysterious methods. 



PEPPER-BOX SEEDS 



In the sketch is shown the dried seed-pod of a 



poppy, hke a pepper-box on a tall, stiff stalk. Now, 



to get the pepper for our meat we have to invert 



and shake the box. How do the loose seeds get 



out of theirs? Pull the pod a little and then let it 



spring away, and you will hear the seeds scatter 



a long way in every direction. But the wind is 



.,:^--.-../,:.;- ■- able to sway these pods back and 



■;i' '" forth, and, catching the seeds, 



''"^/Ivli^^l^x bear them far and scatter them 



^- '^ I- ^'^S^- well. 



., y ^^m0^ y\ We can find a great many of 



\( if - V- •• . these "pepper-box" plants in ac- 



\t // "•.'■•■•*■' tion, such as the monkshood, col- 



V; // . •: . mnbine, larkspur, Jimson-w^eed. 



\\ If The lilies and the Indian-pipe 



!'; / belong to this class, but they have 



this peculiarity, that, even though 



their corollas may turn modestly 



POPPY downward while in bloom, yet 



