. True manhood : a manual for young men . And thoughwe may try, over and over again, to think of the verybest place where it might stay, so that no blows orrough treatment could reach it to harm its thin cov-ering, neither heat nor cold to destroy it, we shouldconclude every time that we could not contrive any-thing better than the mothers body. The Plant Ovary. In plants the seeds grow in a pod. The correctname for pod is ovary. Pea and bean pods are fa-miliar examples of the ovary. To say pea ovary andbean ovary would be as proper as to say pea pod andbean pod. Rose seeds grow in a pod at th
. True manhood : a manual for young men . And thoughwe may try, over and over again, to think of the verybest place where it might stay, so that no blows orrough treatment could reach it to harm its thin cov-ering, neither heat nor cold to destroy it, we shouldconclude every time that we could not contrive any-thing better than the mothers body. The Plant Ovary. In plants the seeds grow in a pod. The correctname for pod is ovary. Pea and bean pods are fa-miliar examples of the ovary. To say pea ovary andbean ovary would be as proper as to say pea pod andbean pod. Rose seeds grow in a pod at the lo\verside of the blossom, which when ripe is of a scarletcolor. That pod is the ovary of the rose. Whenthe rose leaves or petals fall off, the bright red ovaryis left standing alone, and full of seeds which in theirturn fall to the ground by the bursting of the ovary. There are various sizes and shapes of ovaries aswell as of seeds, and a full description of them isgiven in the science of Botany, which is a very in- TRUE MANHOOD. 45. Fig. IV. Seed Pod or Ovary. teresting study. We must leave that for the readerto study, and pass on to a description of The Animal Ovary^ or place where the eggs of animals are formed. One or two kinds may be represented in order toshow the similarity between them and plant ovaries,and explain some things about them necessary to our
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