. New walks in old ways, in which relationship with certain humble folk of the roadside and the fields is re-established. Natural history. X Free Seed Distributions THE prodigality of Nature in her ceaseless endeavor at reproduction is something that fairly staggers the imagination. You have only to ex- amine the seedheads of the plants growing along any roadside in Septem- ber to appreciate this fact. Mathema- ticians will have to coin new terms and find new and illuminating phrases if they ever undertake a census of the old Earth's annual seed production and distribution. Apparently Nature i


. New walks in old ways, in which relationship with certain humble folk of the roadside and the fields is re-established. Natural history. X Free Seed Distributions THE prodigality of Nature in her ceaseless endeavor at reproduction is something that fairly staggers the imagination. You have only to ex- amine the seedheads of the plants growing along any roadside in Septem- ber to appreciate this fact. Mathema- ticians will have to coin new terms and find new and illuminating phrases if they ever undertake a census of the old Earth's annual seed production and distribution. Apparently Nature is more interested in propagating plants that we regard as "pests" than she is in extending the field of what we call the useful or the merely ornamental. The fact that there are so many highly-organized growths in this world [127]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sanders, Alvin Howard, 1860-1948. Chicago, Sanders publishing company


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