76 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
petals, of its stamens—with their mysterious 
anther-borne pollen—and, within the floral enve- 
lope, of the incipient ovule encased in its curious 
cover, and destined, after the mysterious process 
of fructification, to become the seed—that is to 
say, the embryo of the future Tree, with all its 
suggestiveness of strength and of beauty ? 
