Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 830
of the inner side. In the green conesthe overlapping scales are closed tightly,and often covered with sticky resin, to pro-tect the immature seeds. After the seedshave matured, the scales pull apart and dis-charge them. There are some exceptionsto this rule, for many of the ripe cones of… … THE PINE-CONE FAMILY cones and seeds the soil, at the same timethat it destroys the trees. Most conifer seeds are very small andlight, and have attached to them thin, mem-branous wings, for these seeds are intendedto be sown by the winds. Few of the little airplanes fly farther than three or…
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