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Plants and their children

Chapter 1: PLANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
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The book is a child-focused natural history that guides readers through fruits, seeds, young plants, roots and stems, buds, leaves, and flowers across the school year, combining simple explanations of plant structure and reproduction, seed dispersal methods, and physiological processes with seasonal observation exercises and classroom activities. It emphasizes hands-on collection, identification, and experiments, describes common plant families and adaptations, and offers teachers practical arrangements and illustrations to develop observational habits and an enduring interest in nature.

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Title: Plants and their children

Author: Frances Theodora Parsons

Illustrator: Alice Josephine Smith

Release date: October 23, 2023 [eBook #71942]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: American Book Company, 1896

Credits: Bob Taylor, the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN ***

PLANTS

AND THEIR CHILDREN


BY

MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS”


ILLUSTRATED BY

ALICE JOSEPHINE SMITH



NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY