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future use often in the root, but sometimes in the 

 stem, as in the crocus, in the fleshy scales of the 

 lily bulb, or in the actual stem of the turnip- 

 stemmed cabbage ; also, as in the well-hearted cab- 

 bage itself, in the leaves. Perhaps our readera have 

 never reflected why a cabbage hearts, or a turnip 

 forms its globe, or a carrot its long fleshy cone : 

 they will not now forget that He who " opens his 

 hand" arid "fills" all "with good," thus doubly 

 provides for the well-being and food of man, and 

 for the due development of his " lower works." 



