ANIMALS HELP PLANTS 
home. The oak tree depends on the squirrel to plant its 
acorns. Such trees as the apple and the peach have to 
find a way of their own. 
They fall back on members of the animal world. They 
place around their seeds quantities of juicy meat which 
animals like to eat. All the fruits that are good to eat 
have this meat, with which to repay any animal for carry¬ 
ing their seed away to a new home. 
And note how well many of them have succeeded! 
Most of the orchard fruits grew in the beginning in the 
middle of Asia. They were not very widely scattered. 
The apple made itself attractive to the man animal, how¬ 
ever, and has traveled all around the world with him. 
The peach appealed to his taste and has made similar 
journeys. Blackheart cherries that grow at the foot of 
Mount Shasta, in California, made the journey there all 
the way from Persia because they made themselves good 
for the man animal to eat. 
The whole story of these orchard fruits and their travels 
illustrates the benefits one creature may gain by being 
particularly nice to others around it. 
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