PLANTS THAT BURY NUTS 
bloom out of sight and make seeds. The fringed polygala 
has underground flowers as well as brilliant blossoms out 
where everybody can see them. Then there is the plant 
which old-fashioned people call “ sow bread,” which is 
another buried seed. The branches of this plant bore into 
the ground to bury their nuts in a place of safety. 
All these plants, it may be, feel a scornful contempt 
for the sunflower, the sheaf of wheat, the stalk of corn, 
which leave their seed out in the open for every passing 
bird to peck at. 
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