Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-11-29

Inc AhrNes " y Seeu'
Have you ever CONSIDERED how wonderful Z
thing the .eed Of q plant i.' Ia 10 the mir
sele Of miracles. God .aid. let ther. b.
plants Of y'elilps .eed :" and II is iurihsr
adied. each one after his kind"
The great naturalist, Cuv'sr. ,hooehi
that the germs Of all past. pre-sn, and To-
i5re generation. Of .eels were contained ore
within the other. .. u packed in . sueees-
SION % boxes. Other learned men have sh'
planned thi. mystery in difersai way.
Bu, sha, -en,ly all their explanations
L., then explain II .. they will. the won
der remains the sane. and We mus, look
upon the rsproduetisn Of ibs 'eed as . eon.
tinusl miracle.
I. there upon earih . machine, 70 there =
palace. - there even . city that contains 80
much that !. wonderful a. !. enclosed in =
single little .eed-ons grain Of corn. one
li,ils hro-n apple sed, one .c~f Of tree,
picked Up. P,rhsr., by . 'pArrOw Tor her
little ones. the smallest -e-j oi . popry or .
blue bill. or e,-n one Of the seei. tha, are
% small that ihsy IA, ahOu, N the air, in
visible TO the eys' Al there iss world
o. marvel and brilliant BEAUTIES bid in ihs.s
tiny .e~d. Consider their inmc~.s mum.
ber. the r.rfect separation Of the tissrsni
kind.. their power Of IN. and rcsurrecnon.
and their wonderful fruitiuloe.s
Consider frs, their nunhsr. Aboa, =
hupdrsi and try year. aso, the celebrated
LiunEus, who ha. been called "thS faihrr
Of botany" reckoped abou, eigh, thousand
kinds OF plan., and be then thought that
the Who'll. number existing could no, exceed
ten thousand Rat. hundred years afisr
him. ". be Csndoll,. Of Gvns'a, described
forty thousand kinds Of plants, and he sup
po.cd il possible THAI the nSmber might
even amount to one hundr~d thousand.
Well. l., me ask you. have ,he-s one hun
cred thousand kinds Of plants ever tailed 10
bar ,b, right .cst' Have they ever de-
ecivei u,' ia. -ecd OF wheat ever yield
81 harley. or = .s.l Of POPPY ,Ve- grown up
into = .un.ao~-rf Has a .ye.mor~trs.
ever sprung from an acorn, or a beech tree
from a chestnut? \ ltile bard ssy carry
a~ay TIE small - Of sycamore in iis
be-. TO fed it. pe.,lIns.. md On the way
nav drop /, on ,he ground The tiny .c~d
.eed may spring up and grOs where u isll.
unnogic~d. and siIy years alter iI beeomss
magnificent tree. under which the a1cks
OF the valley. and their shepherds may rec,
10 the shade.
Consider mex, the wonderful power o. life
ana resurrection BESTOWED on the -eSi. Of
plants. - that they may be preserved fom
year to year. and even from eeu'Gry to eea.
,ury.
Ls, child put few SEEDS in q drawer
and shot them Up. and sixty years alter
ward, when hi. hair !, white and his step
lettering. let hia take one Of tbe.s sr~t.
.nd .ow i, IN III. grouOd. and 'Ooo alter he
will ,es II spring into us~ life, and eecOne
voups. fre-h and beautiful Plant
NJ. J1uanneuI relate, tina, In the year
lS35. .stsr.l old Celtic tomb, were discO1-
ard near Bersorac undsr the head Of
each OF the dead bod,es there ". found a
snail. square stone or BRICK si,h bole in
~. containing few scc1., which bad ben
placed ther, beside the dad hy the hea,hen
frisnd. Who had buried then. perhsp. hf.
teen OF seventeen hundred year. before.
Taese .--d- sere carefully so~et BY those
who found them and wha' DO you think
w.. Seen % .prins up irotn the dust OF the
dea'2 Beautiful sgnsowsrs ami clover
hsarirs tlo-.on. a. brish, and sw~e, al
iho., which are woven in,n wreath. hy the
merry children now playing IN oar bsld.
some year. a.o vase. hsrm-tieally .-al
ed, ~. found m a mum pitiu Egypt by
tbs Enrli.h traveller. wils,n on. who .cH'
70 70 the British Museum. The Librarian
there having unfortunately broken il, dis
covered in it fes grains Of wheat and one
or two pas. Old, wrinklei. and hard a.
stone. The pess were planted carefully IN
der glAs. on the Irh OF June. ,sii, and n
The cod Of thirty day. thee old --ci. were
.su to spring up into bss lfs. They hat
t-sn buried probably about rhres thousand
years ago. perhaps m the time OF ho.e-
and bad .lsp, al that long tune. apparent
ly dad. and ys, still living IN the dust Of
the tomb. lGaussn.