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8. Gather an orange flower that has dropped 
its petals and stamens. Here is one! See! a 
part of the pistil left in it is just starting to grow 
into a fruit. Although it is so small, the begin- 
nings of the seeds are in it. They are packed in 
order in tiny chambers, which will grow until 
they form the large round fruit you know so 
well." 
9. How wonderful!" cried Frank. ^'I can see 
now why this part of the flower has to be well 
guarded by the rings of flower-leaves." 
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1. " Do you remember in which part of a flower 
the seeds grow?'' Mr. Grey asked the children, 
when he began his next talk with them about 
flowers. 
Yes, I do," said Frank. '^They grow in the 
middle part, which you said was the pistil." 
2. Quite right," replied his father. 
''Well, at the lower part of the pistil there is 
a place to hold the little seed-buds, or plant-eggs^ 
as you may call them if you like. 
3. ''As the plant-eggs grow and ripen into 
seeds, the wall of the seed-box which holds them 
grows too; sometimes becoming very large. In 
