THE SEED. 
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Write the name of a kind, as pea, oat, etc., on each 
successive page, till all are inserted. 
When your seeds have soaked for a day or two in 
the wet earth, take a bean from the box and compare 
it with one that has not been planted. 
How has it changed in appearance ? 
Cut it in two and see whether, like a piece of chalk, 
it looks alike outside and inside, or whether the parts 
are unlike. 
Has it a skin or shell that you can loosen ? 
Take a second bean from the box, cut carefully 
around it, and try to peel off the outer part. 
Seed-coat, or Xnteg'ument.— The skin or shell 
around the outside of a seed. 
Body, Kernel, or HVcleus. — The substance 
within the seed-coat. 
Compare your specimen with Fig. 220. 
Can you separate the seed-coat from the body of 
the bean as it is seen to be separated in the picture ? 
Fig. 220. 
How take a pea from your box and see if it is 
made up of parts. 
bias it a seed-coat? Is there a kernel or body 
within the seed-coat? 
Try a pumpkin-seed. Compare the coat of a 
pumpkin-seed with that of the pea or bean. 
