SEEDS. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



SEEDS. 



IT will be on some 

 of the dry days 

 of autumn that 

 you will best be 

 able to explore 

 amongst the seeds 

 of our common 

 English plants. 

 But very many of 

 them are small; so 

 small that you 

 cannot really see 

 them well without 

 a microscope, and 

 I want you to 

 know something 

 more about seeds 

 Fig. 134. The Date Palm. before the autumn 



comes. So let us try and get a grain or two of wheat, 

 a few peas or beans, one or two prunes, dates, and 

 walnuts, an apple, a Brazil nut, a common hazel nut 



