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Show Ask Andy: Pine Seed Starts Life in Two Cones tend a complete, et of the World Book Encyclopedia to Lorraine Prell, age 10, of Rockford, III., for her queettom takes another year or more, The seed for a new pine is ready two and a half years after the pine cones gtart to They soon look like mini- When, the pollen comes open, ature green pineapples, each each seed cone also curls back with neatly folded scales ar- its scales so that the blowing ranged in spiral whorls from pollen may fall or be wafted inside them. tip to tip. Where la the seed in a The pollen cones grow In The seed cone now shuts pine cone? clusters at the base of new its scales and becomes a Last week Andy told how twigs. Their scales shelter the up little fist. tight the pine tree grows from a pollen scales which produce The outside crust, may beseedling to a forest giant Now the sperm or male parent cells. come coated with gummy Jel'sdw laiw " One, two or three of them resin loLecpbufTheprowling 'ther back and grow close together near the insects and the cold. see how the tip of the new twigs. s t u r dy little THE WORK OF the Andy seedling got started. Like most plants, It sprang from a seed and a seed forms when two parent cells meet and merge. The holly grows Its two parent cells on different trees. The daisy grows Its two parent cells in each flower, The pine tree grows its two parent cells in different cones on the same tree. The sperm "or Shale "cells grow in the pollen cones. The eggs or female cells grow In the seed cones. The cones begin to. bud in fall or early spring. pollen cones is now done. They become crisp and dry and soon fall to the ground. The two different parent cells are now sealed in the large seed cones. Through the first year, the pollen grain and the egg cells remain separate while they THEY CLOUD the air and grow and develop. fall In yellow dust upon the THEN THE pollen grain forest floor. A few grains a hollow tube through grows manfrom this vast number Its which sperm cells travel to e age to reach-thparent' egg join and merge with the egg cells which are ready inside cell. the seed cones. The egg cell is now fertilized, Each seed cone does its best to take the next step ready to capture the golden grains, to becoming a seed. This job for without them the egg cells could never become seeds. Their scales shelter the parent egg cells. In May or June, the grains of pollen are ready with their cones n sperm cells. turn back their scales and countless golden- - grains - are wafted.on the breezes. The-polle- STAR GAZER0 By CLAY AIIS yt MAR. 22 According lo tht Sian. To develop message for Tuesday, read words corresponding to number of your Zodiac birth siga I Rnom 31 Your APR, 30 o1 &A2 TAIMUi 0jf II 4Kmo 5Th C1MMT MAY 22 JUNE 22 ' 6 Indicate 7 Or SAIeit 9 For 10 Slot II People CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 5572-78-83-8- 9 uo JULY 24 AUG. 23 D 54-- 68-6- 9 ! VMOO AUG 24 SEPT. 22 2- 5 41 Be 42 Finance 43 Slrlou Min 44Tamworfc ISThe 16 Property 20 Buraen 45 46 47 48 49 50 21 Of 51 Beware 17 Your 18 Time 19 Trouble 0.44-47-53-5- 8 32 To 33 Making 34 A 35 A 36 Gel 37 Danger - 38 Impgrtoht 39 May 40 Apt J2Moming' 13 4V25-63-6- . 2 Money 3 Aspect .... ; MAY K POLLAN' Vow Daily Atfirity Guido 22 Will 23 You 24 Of 25Moy 26 Cbonco Secretive Probable He.p To Expect Slip Keep 52 Think 53 You 54 Check 55 Vitol 56 A 27 Of 57 Tool 28 Soon 29 Authority 30 Possible 58 Succeed 59 Before 60 Money ()GooI Adverse 4 JOTTER POINT SIZES Not one but two . . . quality w g instruments. Alwajs ready to write with ink or lead. Parker Jotter pen has giant ink refill and exclusive textured ball .,. for practically skip-prowriting.. Parker Writefine Pencil has mechanism. Plastic barin five rels attractive colors. Parker rit-in- -- IKOr pay L YOU-G- O INSURANCE? SOUNDS GOOD I WHO GIVE ME DETAILS? of Jotter only A PRODUCT Of THE $ 1 .98 PEN COMPANY PARKER Investigate Great Americans plan for insuring your home, your car . . everything you own, on an easy payment basis. Get in touch with: - 5 KELL IfiSURAIICE AGENCY Phillips Petroleum Building, Ph. A A. M A A, A A --A , A A 4 A- - ., I EM 4 6851 |