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The Child's Book of Nature Volume 1

Worthington Hooker

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... that it holds what will cover long rows of poles with vines. There is a great deal of life asleep for the winter in that bag. Most of the seeds that drop from trees and plants are killed, and they decay on the ground with the leaves. It is only now and then that a seed lives and takes root. If all seeds lived and sprung up we should have too many things growing every where. If all the acorns lived, and got into the ground, and took root, there would be too many oaks. And so of other trees and plants. The seeds that are scattered on the ground have to take their chance, as we say. Some out of the whole live through the winter in some way, and come up in the spring. Questions.--What is said of life in the seed? What wakes it up? Can the sleep of seeds last sometimes a great while? Tell about the seeds from a city that was covered up with lava. What is said of the number of seeds that come from one seed? What becomes of the seeds of plants and trees that fall to the ground? Seeds scattered by man, by water, by wind, etc. CHAPTER XVI. HOW SEEDS ARE SCATTERED. Seeds are scattered in various ways. They do not all stay near the place where they drop. There are many kinds of seeds that man scatters in raising his crops from year to year. Some seeds are carried away by water. Sometimes they sail a very great distance in this way, and, like people, settle down far away from the spot where they grew. Seeds are sometimes carried about in the hair of animals, and are dropped here and there. The sheep gets seeds into its wool, and then shakes them out as it goes about the pasture, or rubs them off against the trees and the fences. The little burrs with which you make baskets, by sticking them together, are seedholders. They often stick to your...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Child's Book of Nature Volume 1. To get started finding The Child's Book of Nature Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... that it holds what will cover long rows of poles with vines. There is a great deal of life asleep for the winter in that bag. Most of the seeds that drop from trees and plants are killed, and they decay on the ground with the leaves. It is only now and then that a seed lives and takes root. If all seeds lived and sprung up we should have too many things growing every where. If all the acorns lived, and got into the ground, and took root, there would be too many oaks. And so of other trees and plants. The seeds that are scattered on the ground have to take their chance, as we say. Some out of the whole live through the winter in some way, and come up in the spring. Questions.--What is said of life in the seed? What wakes it up? Can the sleep of seeds last sometimes a great while? Tell about the seeds from a city that was covered up with lava. What is said of the number of seeds that come from one seed? What becomes of the seeds of plants and trees that fall to the ground? Seeds scattered by man, by water, by wind, etc. CHAPTER XVI. HOW SEEDS ARE SCATTERED. Seeds are scattered in various ways. They do not all stay near the place where they drop. There are many kinds of seeds that man scatters in raising his crops from year to year. Some seeds are carried away by water. Sometimes they sail a very great distance in this way, and, like people, settle down far away from the spot where they grew. Seeds are sometimes carried about in the hair of animals, and are dropped here and there. The sheep gets seeds into its wool, and then shakes them out as it goes about the pasture, or rubs them off against the trees and the fences. The little burrs with which you make baskets, by sticking them together, are seedholders. They often stick to your...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Child's Book of Nature Volume 1. To get started finding The Child's Book of Nature Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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