The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service.
- United States Public Health Service
- Date:
- [1933]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAPTER II. We have agreed, Helen Elizabeth, that living things are among the most beautiful things in the world, and that because all living things change and finally die there would soon be none of them left unless new ones were produced. How sad it would be if all the green grass and the beautiful flowers, and the birds, and all the animals should disappear. If you will listen very carefully I shall tell you why they do not disappear. First, we shall consider the flowers. How many, many different kinds of flowers there are. There are violets and dandelions and buttercups and roses and sweet peas and daisies and forget-me- nots and lilies and pussy-willows and hollyhocks, and perhaps you can name alot more. All these flowers are beautiful, and you and I would be very unhappy if a time should come when there were none. Now, flowers come from plants, and each flower has its own particular plant. In order to have a wild rose you must have a wild rose bush. In order to have dandelions there must be a dandelion plant. Sweet peas do not grow on apple trees or currant bushes, but on sweet-pea vines. You know that as well as I. The sweet-pea vine, like other plants, has roots by means of which it draws water and nourishment from the ground. You know that if you cut off its roots the vine will die. It also has leaves, by means of which it gets air, and you know that if bugs continually destroy its leaves it will die. [9]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32172060_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
