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FLOWER-LAND. 



CHAPTER V. 



STEMS. 



WE shall not want 

 our trowel to-day, 

 for I shall not tell 

 you any more at 

 present about roots, 

 which grow down- 

 wards into the earth. 

 I am going to talk 

 to you about that 

 part of a plant which 

 grows above the 

 ground, and bears 

 leaves and flowers 

 it is called the stem. 



There are, indeed, 

 some stems which 

 are partly or alto- 

 gether under the 

 ground. You will 

 see something of the kind in the primrose. These 

 underground stems send out roots downwards, and 



Fig. 13. Saffron Crocus. 

 (Croctis sativus}. 



