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specialised detachable shoots, which are its liveliest 

 parts, and in whicii all the most active protoplasm 

 and chlorophyll (or livinj4 <ireenstutf of the plant) 

 are collect-xl and laid by, much as food is laid by 

 in the bulb of a hyacinth or in the tuber of a 

 dahlia. These shoots are, as it were, leafy bulbs, 



j^-O. 3.— TMK CURLED roNll-WKKD I'RODUCING ITS WINTKR SHOOTS. 



meant to carry the life of the plant across the gulf 

 of winter. 



In No. 4 we come upon the next act in this 

 curious and interestini; vet;etable drama. Most 

 people rcL^ard plants as mere rooted things, with 

 no will of their own, and no power of movement. 



