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Part IL— PLANT LIFE. 
PLANTS. 
1. A plant lives and grows, and that it may do 
so it feeds and breathes, though not in the same 
way as animals do. It has not feeling as an 
animal has, nor can it move from place to place. 
It is fixed to one spot by its roots. 
2. A plant feeds through its roots and leaves. | 
Its leaves find food in the air, and its roots find I 
other kinds of food in the soil. But we must not 
think that all the soil is plant food. ! 
3. A plant cannot take in any solid pieces at 
all ; its food from the ground must be taken in j 
with the water that passes into its roots. So you | 
might say that a plant can drink but cannot eat. i 
4. By their leaves plants breathe as well as i 
feed ; that is, they take in one kind of gas and i 
give out another kind. An animal dies if it can- j 
not breathe the air it needs, or if it cannot find ! 
proper food ; so, too, does a plant. 
5. You know that we rear many kinds of plants 
for the sake of their lovely flowers or their useful 
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