OTHER EDIBLE SEEDS. 
There are other nuts, as the pecan, whose tree belongs 
to the Hickory family and grows wild in the southern 
part of the United States ; 
the beechnut, which 
grows on a stately tree 
of our forests; and the 
hazelnut, that grows on 
\ 
] bushes in thickets near 
streams sometimes, or on 
the borders of woods. 
But squirrels, chip- 
munks, birds, and such 
folk are not the only 
ones that plant seeds. 
Some ants do. Indeed 
ants are great hands to 
plant seeds. They do not take the hard nuts, but 
rather the seeds of certain grasses and other plants 
that bear rather small seeds. The ants carry the seeds 
into their holes, where they sometimes eat only one 
part of the seed, not enough to hurt it in the least, 
and so the seeds, buried in the ant-hills, are able to 
grow. 
94 
Hazelnuts. 
