1 5 ^ FLO WE R- LAND. 



So you have oil and flour and spice, all close at 

 hand. I think you will find the different ways in 

 which seeds are useful to us a very interesting part 

 of botany. 



But how wonderful is the production of seed. 

 Wonderful if we think of a flower that produces but 

 a single seed, as the common nut. Wonderful if we 

 think of such a flower as the poppy, a fruit of which 

 has been found to contain up to 40,000 seeds ; 40,000 

 cases containing little poppy germs, each capable of 

 growing into root, and stem, and leaves, and flower, 

 and fruit, and 40,000 seeds again ! 



