. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. HOW PLANTS GROW FROM THE SEED. 17 encos in the particulars. 'While the same kind of plant always grows in exactly the same way, different kinds differ almost as much at the beginning as they do afterwards. The great variety wdiich we observe among the herbs and shrubs and trees around us, — in foliage, flower, fruit, and everything, — gives to vegeta- tion one of its greatest charms
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. HOW PLANTS GROW FROM THE SEED. 17 encos in the particulars. 'While the same kind of plant always grows in exactly the same way, different kinds differ almost as much at the beginning as they do afterwards. The great variety wdiich we observe among the herbs and shrubs and trees around us, — in foliage, flower, fruit, and everything, — gives to vegeta- tion one of its greatest charms. AVe should soon tire of plants or flowers made all after one exact pattern, however beautiful. We enjoy variety. But the bota- nist finds a higher interest in all these differences than any one else, because he discerns one simple plan running through all this diversity, and everywhere re- peated in different forms. He sees that in everj^ plant there is root growing down- Avards, connecting the vegetable with the soil; stem rising into the light and air, and bearing leaves at regular places, and then blossoms, and that the parts of one kind of blossom answer to tliose of another, only differing in shape; and he de- lights in observing how the tens of thousands of kinds of plants all harmonize Avith each other, like the parts of concerted music, — plainly showing that they Avere all contrived, as parts of one system, by one Divine Mind. 38. So in the beginning, in the growth of plants from the seed, although the general plan is the same in all, the variations are many and great. The plan is Avell shown in the two seedling plants which liave sefved for illustration, namely, the Morning-Glory and the Maple. Let us now notice some of the variations, as exhibited in a few very common plants. A great deal may be learned from the commonest 2:)lants, if we w^ill only open our eyes to see them, and ^' consider how they grow," and why they differ in the way they do. Take, fo
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