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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
135
Our
work
during
the
next
hour
will
be
to
consider
this
question.
You
were
asked
last
week
to
bring
with
you
to-day
a
primrose-
flower,
or
a
whole
plant
if
possible,
in
order
the
better
to
follow
out
with
me
the
"Life
of
a
Primrose."
(To
enjoy
this
lecture,
the
reader
ought
to
have,
if
possible,
a
primrose-
flower,
an
almond
soaked
for
a
few
minutes
in
hot
water,
and
a
piece
of
orange.)
This
is
a
very
different
kind
of
subject
from
those
of
our
former
lectures.
There
we
took
world-
wide
histories;
we
travelled
up
to
the
sun,
or
round
the
earth,
or
into
the
air;
now
I
only
ask
you
to
fix
your
attention
on
one
little
plant,
and
inquire
into
its
history.
There
is
a
beautiful
little
poem
by
Tennyson,
which
says
-
"Flower
in
the
crannied
wall,
I
pluck
you
out
of
the
crannies;
Hold
you
here,
root
and
all,
in
my
hand,
Little
flower;
but
if
I
could
understand
What
you
are,
root
and
all,
and
all
in
all,
I
should
know
what
God
and
man
is."
We
cannot
learn
all
about
this
little
flower,
but
we
can
learn
enough
to
understand
that
it
has
a
real
separate
life
of
its
own,
well
worth
knowing.
For
a
plant
is
born,
breathes,
sleeps,
feeds,
and
digests
just
as
truly
as
an
animal
does,
though
in
a
different
way.
It
works
hard
both
for
itself
to
get
its
food,
and
for
others
in
making
the
air
pure
and
fit
for
animals
to
breathe.
It
often
lays
by
provision
for
the
winter.
It
sends
young
plants
out,
as
parents
send
their
children,
to
fight
for
themselves
in
the
world;
and
then,
after
living
sometimes
to
a
good
old
age,
it
dies,
and
leaves
its
place
to
others.
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