Dr. Goodale says of this experiment,"Let a young seedling of corn be grown on damp paper in the manner described in No. 1, and when the longest root is a few centimetres long let it be marked very carefully by means of India ink, or purple ink, put on with a delicate camel's-hair pencil just one centimetre apart.

Maggie Delafield was passive for the time being, because that which would make her active was no more than a tiny seedling in her heart.

HARRY takes a box of seedlings from a stand and puts them on the floor, that the newcomer may have a place.) ANTHONY:

So that if all the trees of any section of the main Sequoia forest were ranged together according to age, a very promising curve would be presented, all the way up from last year's seedlings to giants, and with the young and middle-aged portion of the curve many times longer than the old portion.

It can be prettily shown with the seedlings by breaking off a bean at the ground and putting the slip in water.

These destructive sheep-fires sweep through nearly the entire forest belt of the range, from one extremity to the other, consuming not only the underbrush, but the young trees and seedlings on which the permanence of the forests depends; thus setting in motion a long train of evils which will certainly reach far beyond bees and beekeepers.

This is prettily shown if we place some of our Nasturtium seedlings under a ward-case.

And if "beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into" its "face," how much more subtly shall the grave strength of peace, the sunshine of hope and sweet content, thrill the delicate chords of being, and warm the tender seedling into richer life.

In time he gave up the care of his orchard to other hands, but he reserved this seedling for his own especial coddling.

This can be shown by marking the stem and roots of a young seedling with ink.