Plants And Their Children
By Frances Theodora Parsons
Length6h 14m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Through the neglect of nature study, the wits of the country child lose just the sharpening they most need, to say nothing of a stimulus and delight which can ill be spared by one whose mental life is apt to be monotonous. The wits of the city child may secure in other ways the sharpening so essential to success in life; yet the training afforded by a logical study of plants, and the pleasure which such a study, rightly directed, is sure to yield, are as invaluable to him as to his country cousin. Experience having proved to my keenest satisfaction that almost invariably children can be interested in stories of plants and their children, to the children of the land I offer this little book, in the earnest hope that its pages may lead at least some few of them to find in life a new joy and a deeper meaning."
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length6 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
26AN IMPATIENT PLANT BABY
2Part I—Fruits and Seeds
27A HUMPBACKED PLANT BABY
3IN THE ORCHARD
28Part III—Roots and Stems
4THE STORY OF THE BEE
29ROOT HAIRS
5THE APPLE’S TREASURES
30ROOTS AND UNDERGROUND STEMS
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6WHAT A PLANT LIVES FOR
31ABOVE-GROUND ROOTS
7THE WORLD WITHOUT PLANTS
32WHAT FEW CHILDREN KNOW
8HOW THE APPLE SHIELDS ITS YOUNG
33PLANTS THAT CANNOT STAND ALONE
9SOME COUSINS OF THE APPLE
34SOME HABITS OF STEMS
10UNEATABLE FRUITS
35STEMS AND SEED LEAVES
11MORE COUSINS OF THE APPLE
36“WELL DONE, LITTLE STEM”
12STILL MORE COUSINS
37Part IV—Buds
13IN THE WOODS
38BUDS IN WINTER
14WHY SEEDS TRAVEL
39A HAPPY SURPRISE
15SOME LITTLE TRAMPS
40SOME ASTONISHING BUDS
16SEED SAILBOATS
41Part V—Leaves
17WINGED SEEDS
42HOW TO LOOK AT A LEAF
18SHOOTING SEEDS
43THE MOST WONDERFUL THING IN THE WORLD
19THE CHESTNUT AND OTHER SEEDS
44HOW A PLANT IS BUILT
20SOME STRANGE STORIES
45HOW A PLANT’S FOOD IS COOKED
21Part II—Young Plants
46A STEEP CLIMB
22HOW THE BABY PLANT LIVES
47HOW A PLANT PERSPIRES
23A SCHOOLROOM GARDEN
48HOW A PLANT STORES ITS FOOD
24A SCHOOLROOM GARDEN (Concluded)
49LEAF GREEN AND SUNBEAM
25SEEDS AS FOOD
50PLANT OR ANIMAL?
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