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waft them there, and soon the desert rock is a 
garden or a forest. 
“See that Milk-weed just rising from its capsule 
and floating away to other regions. No ship sails 
more surely on the wind. The Gilly Flower that 
looks so brilliant in that circle of blossoms, can 
thrust her scaly seeds into the smallest chink of a 
wall and grow there quite happily, giving men les¬ 
sons of wisdom and faith that prouder means some¬ 
times fail to teach. The pretty Balsamines throw 
their seeds far and wide by the sudden bursting of 
their elastic envelopes. 
“ In those lands where the sun is hottest, and vio¬ 
lent tempests rend the sky and scatter the fruits of 
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the earth, seeds are often protected in large cups 
filled with moisture. The cocoa-nuts that grow 
in those climes, are shielded by hard walls which 
neither the beasts of the forest nor the birds of the 
