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that if she wished to have her grow in the garden, 
she must plant the seeds, for if she grew from seeds, 
pussy would not know her, but if she transplanted 
the roots, pussy would soon discover her, and would 
come to tear her down and roll herself m her leaves, 
and then eat them up. 
“ Perhaps you did not know before, little girl,” 
said the Catnep, “that many plants change a little 
every time their seeds are planted. If you should 
take the seeds of that nice pear you are eating, the 
tree that would grow would not bear such pears as 
that, but some of a different kind.” 
Mary wondered if she should ever hear all the 
stiange and curious things that were to be known. 
Every day she heard something new and wonderful. 
The Hedysarums had put forth their purple and 
violet. Mary saw one flower-stalk standing alone 
as if it had strayed away from home, for not a leaf 
