CONTENTS
| PART I.—FRUITS AND SEEDS | |
| PAGE | |
| In the Orchard | [9] |
| The Story of the Bee | [16] |
| The Apple’s Treasures | [19] |
| What a Plant lives for | [21] |
| The World without Plants | [24] |
| How the Apple shields its Young | [27] |
| Some Cousins of the Apple | [31] |
| Uneatable Fruits | [34] |
| More Cousins of the Apple | [36] |
| Still more Cousins | [39] |
| In the Woods | [41] |
| Why Seeds travel | [50] |
| Some Little Tramps | [52] |
| Seed Sailboats | [56] |
| Winged Seeds | [61] |
| Shooting Seeds | [63] |
| The Chestnut and Other Seeds | [67] |
| Some Strange Stories | [69] |
| PART II.—YOUNG PLANTS | |
| How the Baby Plant lives | [75] |
| A Schoolroom Garden | [79] |
| A Schoolroom Garden (Concluded) | [85] |
| Seeds as Food | [89] |
| An Impatient Plant Baby | [91] |
| A Humpbacked Plant Baby | [94] |
| PART III.—ROOTS AND STEMS | |
| Root Hairs | [99] |
| Roots and Underground Stems | [102] |
| Above-ground Roots | [106] |
| What Few Children know | [112] |
| Plants that cannot stand alone | [114] |
| Some Habits of Stems | [117] |
| Stems and Seed Leaves | [119] |
| “Well done, Little Stem” | [122] |
| PART IV.—BUDS | |
| Buds in Winter | [125] |
| A Happy Surprise | [127] |
| Some Astonishing Buds | [129] |
| PART V.—LEAVES | |
| How to look at a Leaf | [135] |
| The most Wonderful Thing in the World | [138] |
| How a Plant is built | [142] |
| How a Plant’s Food is cooked | [143] |
| A Steep Climb | [147] |
| How a Plant perspires | [148] |
| How a Plant stores its Food | [149] |
| Leaf Green and Sunbeam | [151] |
| Plant or Animal? | [154] |
| How we are helped by Leaf Green and Sunbeam | [156] |
| How a Plant breathes | [158] |
| The Diligent Tree | [160] |
| Leaves and Roots | [162] |
| Leaf Veins | [165] |
| Leaf Shapes | [167] |
| Hairy Leaves | [170] |
| Woolly and “Dusty” Leaves | [172] |
| Prickles and Poison | [174] |
| Some Cruel Traps | [176] |
| More Cruel Traps | [181] |
| The Fall of the Leaf | [184] |
| PART VI.—FLOWERS | |
| The Building Plan of the Cherry Blossom | [187] |
| Lilies | [191] |
| About Stamens | [193] |
| Flower Dust, or Pollen | [196] |
| About Pistils | [197] |
| The First Arrival | [202] |
| Pussy Willows | [205] |
| Alders and Birches | [207] |
| The Great Trees | [209] |
| The Unseen Visitor | [211] |
| Plant Packages | [214] |
| Underground Storehouses | [216] |
| Different Building Plans | [217] |
| A Celebrated Family | [222] |
| Clever Customs | [225] |
| Flowers that turn Night into Day | [228] |
| Horrid Habits | [230] |
| The Story of the Strawberry | [232] |
| A Cousin of the Strawberry | [235] |
| Another Cousin | [238] |
| Pea Blossoms and Peas | [240] |
| The Clover’s Trick | [243] |
| More Tricks | [244] |
| An Old Friend | [247] |
| The Largest Plant Family in the World | [248] |
| Robin’s Plantain, Golden-rod, and Aster | [251] |
| The Last of the Flowers | [254] |
| PART VII.—LEARNING TO SEE | |
| A Bad Habit | [257] |
| A Country Road | [261] |
| A Holiday Lesson | [264] |
PLANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN