CHAPTER XIV 
HOW PLANTS SCATTER THEIR SEED 
The touch-me-not. Did you ever see or handle a pod 
of a “touch-me-not”’? The plant is sometimes known 
as garden balsam. 
It is well worth 
while to grow it 
in any flower gar- 
den. The flowers 
are pretty, but the 
pods are still more 
interesting. When 
you touch them, or 
throw them on the 
floor or against 
| the wall, they 
burst suddenly 
Th and scatter their 
an seeds all around. 
FIG. 217. Spray of leaves and flowers and fruit of The wild Jm pa 
_ wild Impatiens. 
tiens, or balsam, 
has smaller pods, which burst in the same way. Find 
some of the plants in a garden during the autumn 
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