Plants and their children

by Frances Theodora Parsons

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And so well wrapped are many of these plant babies, that it is not an easy matter to guess just what they are, what kinds of leaves and flowers will appear when the wrappings have been thrown aside.

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Sometimes the package looks like the sharp-pointed object in the picture at the head of this chapter (Fig. [207]). Soon the leaves push their way out of their papery envelope, and before long our friend Jack-in-the-pulpit himself appears.