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Show The Tailing Loaves. Leaves do T)t fall iroro the tree bo-causo bo-causo thoj lira "deatl" which wo may tako as equivalent to saying becauio they aro no longer receilng the constituents con-stituents of their being from the sap ind from tho nlr but ns a consequence conse-quence of s procesfc. of growth which develops Jus nt tho Junction of the leaf-stem w"h the more permanont portion of tho tro" certain cornltko cells which have very llttlo adhesion, so that tlio lonf is very llablo to be broken away by lnfliiouces of wind and changes of teniperatuio and of molsturo. |