"So there are," said Fred, "and besides the flowers there are pods with seeds in them. These plants have been growing much longer than the others.""I see," said Norah, "as soon as they began to grow they had a root, a stem, and leaves. When they got big, the flowers and the pods with their seeds came."SUMMARY
Plants live and grow in the ground. Minerals are dug out of the ground, but they do not grow there, and they are not living things. The plant has a root, stem, buds, and leaves, when it is big enough the ?owers and seeds come.
Lesson 26
Sugar
"Sugar, like salt, is a substance we can dissolve in water," said Fred. "Salt is a mineral. It comes out of the ground. I want to tell you something about sugar tonight. But in the first place, sugar is not a mineral.
"Take this cabbage leaf in your hand and squeeze it. What do you see?""My hand is wet," said Norah. "Yes," said Fred, "it is wetbecause you squeezed some juice out of the leaf. All plants are full of juice of some sort; we call it the sap.
"Teacher showed us a picture of a great plant called the sugar- cane. It grows in very hot lands far away. It has a very tall stem, but no branches; only some big broad leaves up the stem.
"This sugar-cane, like all other
