Show THE WONDERS OF SEED la Is there upon earth a machine is there a is there even a eity elty which contains eo much that is wonderful as is enclosed in a single littie little seed one grain of corn a little brown apple seed one small seed of a tree picked up perhaps by a sparrow for her little ones the smallest ofa of a poppy or a bluebell or even one of the seeds that areso abeso are so small that they float about in the air invisible to our eyes ahl there is a world of marvels and brilliant beau ties in each of these tiny seeds about a hundred and fifty years ago the celebrated Linn linnaeus reus seus who has been called the father of botany reckoned about different plants and he then thought that the whole number exist ing could not much exceed but years after him M de Can dolle of geneva described different kinds of plants and he supposed it possible that the number might even amount to I 1 well have these kinds of plants ever failed to bear the right kind 0 of f seed have they ever deceived us has a seed of wheat ever yielded barley or the seea seed of a poppy ever grown up into a sunflower has a sycamore tree ever sprung from an acorn or a beech tree from a chestnut A little bird may carry away the small seed of the sycamore in its beak to feed its nestling nest lings 8 on the way it may drop to the ground the tiny seed may spring up and grow where it fell unnoticed and sixty years after it may become a maent magnificent ficen t tree under which the flocks of the valle vaile valleys 8 tie and their shepherds may rast in the shade E ex |