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it is born on the plant, has these three important 
parts, a seed coat, an embryo, and some stored 
food to give it a start in life. 
People eat a great many seeds because they 
can use the stored food also. We eat nuts, corn, 
wheat, beans, and peas, and many others. Of 
course we also eat the fruit that covers the seeds 
of apples and pears and similar fruits, but that 
is not quite the same as eating the seeds. An 
apple seed can still grow after the stored pulp 
around it is eaten away, but a peanut is finished. 
All plants provide many more seeds than could 
possibly grow so that we are not doing any 
damage when we eat the seeds. 
When people want to raise carrots or daisies, 
they plant seeds, but when onions or tulips are 
wanted, bulbs are set in the ground. A seed is 
very hard and dry. Before it can grow, the 
rain must soak through its hard coat and soften 
the baby plant inside. That baby plant or 
embryo is so tiny that it takes a good while for 
it to push through the earth to the light. When 
it does get through, it has to start making food 
What aye bulbs? 
