Designing 



A Strawberry to Bear the 



Year Around 



And Other Work With Strawberries 



A PLANT enthusiast was explaining the 

 functions of plant life one day to that 

 most appreciative and stimulative of all 

 audiences, a company of school children. 



He had told of the supreme importance of the 

 seed — how Nature must first and foremost think 

 of that, because it is the link between successive 

 generations of plants; the only means of assuring 

 a continuance of the race. To bring the illustra- 

 tion home, he had said that the seed is the very 

 heart of the plant. 



A little miss who had absorbed every word 

 with the eager receptivity of the child mind 

 looked up quickly as he finished and said: 



"Then the strawberry is a plant that wears its 

 heart on its sleeve, isn't it?" 



It is only the imagination of children — or of the 

 chance individual here and there who remains a 



[Volume VI — Chapter III] 



