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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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And
now
let
us
see
what
we
have
learnt.
We
began
with
a
tiny
seed,
though
we
did
not
then
know
how
this
seed
had
been
made.
We
saw
the
plantlet
buried
in
it,
and
learnt
how
it
fed
at
first
on
prepared
food,
but
soon
began
to
make
living
matter
for
itself
out
of
gases
taken
from
the
water
through
the
cells
to
its
stomach
-
the
leaves!
And
how
marvellously
the
sun-waves
entering
there
formed
the
little
green
granules,
and
then
helped
them
to
make
food
and
living
protoplasm!
At
this
point
we
might
have
gone
further,
and
studied
how
the
fibres
and
all
the
different
vessels
of
the
plant
are
formed,
and
a
wondrous
history
it
would
have
been.
But
it
was
too
long
for
one
hour's
lecture,
and
you
must
read
it
for
yourselves
in
books
on
botany.
We
had
to
pass
on
to
the
flower,
and
learn
the
use
of
the
covering
leaves,
the
gaily
coloured
crown
attracting
the
insects,
the
dust-bags
holding
the
pollen,
the
little
ovules
each
with
the
germ
of
a
new
plantlet,
lying
hidden
in
the
seed-
vessel,
waiting
for
the
pollen-grains
to
grow
down
to
them.
Lastly,
when
the
pollen
crept
in
at
the
tiny
opening
we
learnt
that
the
ovule
had
now
all
it
wanted
to
grow
into
a
perfect
seed.
And
so
we
came
back
to
a
primrose
seed,
the
point
from
which
we
started;
and
we
have
a
history
of
our
primrose
from
its
birth
to
the
day
when
its
leaves
and
flowers
wither
away
and
it
dies
down
for
the
winter.
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