HISTORY OF PLANTS

                                                         JUICY FRUIT

             SOME SEEDS GROW INSIDE FRUIT, BERRIES AND NUTS. THESE SEEDS ARE SPREAD BY BIRDS AND ANIMALS. WHEN BIRDS EAT FRUIT AND BERRIES, THEY EAT THE SEEDS TOO. THEY FLY AWAY AND THE SEEDS ARE SPREAD IN THEIR DROPPINGS. THERE ARE ABOUT BLUEBERRY. CHIPMUNKS EAT FRUIT AND NUTS. THEY TAKE THEIR FOOD INTO THEIR BURROWS TO EAT. THE SEEDS ARE SPREAD IN THEIR DROPPINGS. SQUIRRELS OFTEN BURY NUTS IN THE GROUND TO EAT LATER. THEN THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM AND THE SEEDS START TO GROW.

                                                                    NEW PLANTS

     SOME PLANTS HAVE SPECIAL WAYS TO MAKE NEW PLANTS.  A SHOOT CALLED A RUNNER GROWS OUT SIDEWAYS FROM A STRAWBERRY PLANT. WHEN IT TOUCHES THE GROUND IT GROWS ROOTS. A NEW PLANT GROWS FROM THE ROOTS AND THE RUNNER ROTS AWAY. A SMALL, NEW BULB GROWS ON THE SIDE OF A DAFFODIL BULB.ONLY ONE OR TWO FLOWERS GROW FROM EACH DAFFODIL BULD. THE NEW BULB GROWS BIGGER AND THE TWO BULBS SPLIT APART. 

                                                               HOT DESERTS

   SOME DESERT PLANTS DON'T GROW WHILE THE SOIL IS DRY, BUT THEIR SEEDS LIE IN THE GROUND. AFTER RAIN, THE SEEDS GROW QUICKLY INTO FLOWERS. THE FLOWERS MAKE SEEDS AND THEN DIE. THE NEW SEEDS WILL GROW WHEN IT RAINS AGAIN. 

OLD MAN CACTUS PLANTS ARE COVERED IN WOOLLY HAIR TO SHADE THEM FROM THE SUN

    WHEN IT IS DRY THE LEAVES FALL OFF AND OCOTILLO PLANT. NEW LEAVES WILL GROW AGAIN AFTER IT HAS RAINED. ALOE PLANTS STORE WATER INSIDE THEIR THICK, SPIKY LEAVES. 

                                                             WATER PLANTS

          SOME PLANTS GROW IN PONDS AND LAKES. MANY HAVE ROOTS WHICH GROW ON THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE. SOME WATER PLANTS HAVE ROOTS WHICH FLOAT IN WATER. A WATER LILY'S FLOWERS FLOAT ON THE SURFACE, SO THAT INSECTS CAN REACH THE POLLEN. 

  MOST WATER PLANTS DON'T GROW IN RIVERS, BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE WASHED AWAY.

    WATER LILIES HAVE FLAT LEAVES WITH A WAXY SURFACE. THIS HELPS THEM TO FLOAT. THEY DON'T SINK EVEN IF A FROG SITS ON THEM.

                                                              KLLLER PLANTS

      SOME PLANTS CATCH INSECTS AND TURN THEM INTO JUICE, WHICH THEY SOAK UP. A FLY LANDS IN A VENUS FLYTRAP'S SPIKY LEAVES. THE TRAP SNAPS SHUT AND THE FLY SLOWLY ROTS INSIDE. SUNDREW PLANTS HAVE STICKY HAIRS WHICH TRAP INSECTS. PITCHER PLANTS HAVE LEAVES WHICH LOOK LIKE CUPS AND ARE FILLEW WITH WATER. THERE IS SOME NECTAR ON THE RIM. ANTS CRAWL INTO PITCHER PLANTS TO LOOK FOR MORE NECTAR. 

MONKEYS LIKE TO PICK PITCHER PLANTS AND DRINK THE WATER INSIDE.

IRCHIDS, LIKE THIS ONE, GROW IN RAINFORESTS. THEY ATTRACT INSECTS WITH THEIR BRIGHT PETALS

        HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORDS IN UNDER YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, WHAT THEY MEAN

      

    SEED           -  A HARD SHELL WITH A YOUNG PLANT INSIDE.

   SEED POD - THE PART OF A FLOWER WHERE THE SEEDS GROW.

  BULB          - SPECIAL UNDERGROUND LEAVES WHERE SOME PLANTS STORE THEIR                                   FOOD

  STAMENS   - LONG TUBES IN THE MIDDLE OF A FLOWER WHERE POLLEN IS MADE.

  POLLEN      - A POWDER WHICH PLANTS SWAP WITH OTHER PLANTS TO MAKE SEEDS

  NECTAR     - A SWEET JUICE INSIDE FLOWERS WHICH ANIMALS, BIRDS AND INSECTS DRINK.

 RUNNER     - A SPECIAL STEM WHICH GROWS OUT SIDEWAYS FROM SOME PLANTS.

    

WAKE UP WITH SUCCESS

                                             READ THIS POSITIVE LINES 

    1. WITH LOVE THERE IS NO PAINFUL REACTION, LOVE ONLY BRINGS A REACTION OF BLISS, IF IT DOES NOT, IT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS MISTAKING SOMETHING ELSE FOR LOVE, SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

    2. DO NOT SPEND YOUR ENERGY IN TALKING, BUT MEDITATE IN SILENCE, AND DO NOT LET THE RUSH OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD DISTURB YOU. WHEN YOUR MIND IS IN THE HIGHEST STATE, YOU ARE UNCONSCIOUS OF IT.

   3. SO NEVER MIND THESE FAILURES, THESE LITTLE BACKSLIDINGS. HOLD THE IDEAL A  THOUSAND TIMES, AND IF YOU FAIL A THOUSAND TIMES, MAKE THE ATTEMPT ONCE MORE... THERE IS INFINITE LIFE BEFORE THE SOUL. TAKE YOUR TIME AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE YOUR END.

  4. ABOVE ALL, BEWARE OF COMPROMISES, HOLD ON TO YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES IN WEAL OR WOE AND NEVER ADJUST THEM TO OTHERS FADS, THROUGH THE GREED OF GETTING SUPPORTERS.

  5. PERSEVERANCE, TREMENDOUS WILL. I WILL DRINK THE OCEAN, SAY THE PRESEVERING SOUL, AT MY WILL MOUNTAINS WILL CRUMBLE UP, HAVE THAT SORT OF ENERGY, THAT SORT OF WILL, WORK HARD, AND YOU WILL REACH THE GOAL.

  6. RAJA- YOGA IS THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, THE RATIONALE OF ALL WORSHIP, ALL PRAYERS, FORMS, CEREMONIES, AND MIRACLES.

  7. EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE UP HIS OWN IDEAL AND ENDEAVOUR TO ACCOMPLISH IT. THAT IS A SURER WAY OF PROGRESS THAN TAKING UP OTHER MEN'S IDEAL, WHICH HE CAN NEVER HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.

  8. SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY WE ARE TO TRAIN OURSELVES. IT IS NO JOKE- NOT A QUESTION OF A DAY, OR YEARS, OR MAY BE OF BIRTHS. NEVER MIND! THE PULL MUST GO ON. INCH BY INCH WE WILL GAIN GROUND. WE WILL BEGIN TO FEEL AND GET REAL POSSESIONS, WHICH NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM US- THE WEALTH THAT NO MAN CAN TAKE, THE WEALTH THAT NOBODY CAN DESTROY, THE JOY THAT NO MISERY CAN HURT ANY MORE.

  9. RELIGION CAN BE REALISED. ARE YOU READY? DO YOU WANT? YOU WILL GET THE REALISATION IF YOU DO , AND THEN YOU WILL BE TRULY RELIGIOUS. UNTILL YOU HAVE ATTINED REALISATION THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ATHEISTS. THE ATHEISTS ARE SINCERE, BUT THE MAN WHO SAYS THAT HE BELIEVES IN RELIGION AND NEVER ATTEMPTS TO REALISE IT IS NOT SINCERE.

  10. LIFE IS ITSELF RELIGION.

  11. IF YOU WANT THE REWARD, YOU MUST ALSO HAVE THE PUNISHMENT, THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT OF THE PUNISHMENT IS TO GIVE UP THE REWARD.

  12. EXISTENCE CAN NEVER BE NON-EXISTENCE NEITHER CAN NON-EXESTENCE EVER BECOME EXISTENCE... KNOW, THEREFORE, THAT WHICH PERVADES ALL THIS INIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END. IT IS UNCHANGEABLE. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE THAT CAN CHANGE ( THE CHANGELESS). THOUGH THIS BODY HAS ITS BEGINNING AND END, THE DWELLER IN THE BODY IS INFINITE AND WITHOUT END.

 13. YOU MAY SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO ME BY THE HOUR EVERY DAY, BUT IF YOU DO NOT PRACTICE, YOU WILL NOT GET ONE STEP FURTHER. IT ALL DEPENDS ON PRACTICE.

  14. BY ALL MEANS MAKE A START- EVEN IF IT'S FOR THE WRONG REASON.

  15. THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE WE CANNOT SEE, BECAUSE ITS SURFACE IS COVERED WITH RIPPLES. IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE FOR US TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE BOTTOM, WHEN THE RIPPLES HAVE SUBSIDED, AND THE WATER IS CALM.

THE SILENCE

                                              LIKE GOD AS SILENCE

 

        ARE THERE ANY OTHER PORTALS APART FROM THOSE YOU JUST MENTIONED?

       YES, THERE ARE. THE UNMANIFESTED IS NOT SEPERATE FROM THE MANIFESTED. IT PERVADES THIS WORLD, BUT IT IS SO WELL DISGUESED THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY MISSES IT COMPLETELY. IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, YOU'LL FIND IT EVERYWHERE. A PORTAL OPENS UP EVERY MOMENT.

      DO YOU HEAR THAT DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE? OR THAT CAR PASSING BY? LISTEN CAREFULLY. CAN YOU FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED IN THAT? YOU CAN? LOOK FOR IT IN THE SILENCE OUT OF WHICH THE SOUNDS COME AND INTO WHICH THEY RETURN. PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE SILENCE THAN TO THE SOUNDS. PAYING ATTENTION TO OUTER SILENCE CREATES INNER SILENCE, THE MIND BECOMES STILL. A PORTAL IS OPENING UP.

       EVERY  SOUND IS BORN OUT OF SILENCE, DIES BACK INTO SILENCE, AND DURING ITS LIFE SPAN IS SURROUNDED BY SILENCE. SILENCE ENABLES THE SOUND TO BE. IT IS AN INTRINSIC BUT UNMANIFESTED PART OF EVERY SOUND, EVERY MUSICAL NOTE, EVERY SONG, EVERY WORD. THE UNMANIFESTED IS PRESENT IN THIS WORD AS SILENCE. THIS IS WHY IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SO LIKE GOD AS SILENCE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PAY ATTENTION TO IT. EVEN DURING A CONVERSATION, BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE GAPS BETWEEN WORDS, THE BRIEF SILENT INTERVALS BETWEEN SENTENCES. AS YOU DO THAT, THE DIMENSION OF STILLNESS GROWS WITHIN YOU, YOU CANNOT PAY ATTENTION TO SILENCE WITHOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOMING STILL WITHIN. SILENCE WITHOUT, STILLNESS WITHIN. YOU HAVE ENTERED THE UNMANIFESTED.

  

PLEASE TRY IT NOW

                                                           TRY NOW

          PLEASE TRY IT NOW. YOU MAY FIND IT HELPFUL TO CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR THIS PRACTISE. LATER ON, WHEN BEING IN THE BODY, HAS BECOME NATURAL AND EASY, THIS WILL NO LONGER BE NECESSARY. DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION INTO TE BODY, FEEL IT FROM WHITHIN. IS IT ALIVE? IS THERE LIFE IN YOUR HANDS, ARMS, LEGS, AND FEET- IN YOUR ABDOMEN, YOUR CHEST? CAN YOU FEEL THE SUBTLE ENERGY FIELD THAT PERVADES THE ENTIRE BODY AND GIVES VIBRANT LIFE TO EVERY ORGAN AND EVERY CELL? CAN YOU FEEL IT SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL PARTS OF THE BODY AS A SINGLE FIELD OF ENERGY? KEEP FOCUSING ON THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY FOR A FEW MOMENTS. DO NOT START TO THINK ABOUT IT. FEEL IT. THE MORE ATTENTION YOU GIVE IT, THE CLEARE AND STRONGER THIS FEELING WILL BECOME. IT WILL FEEL AS IF EVERY CELL IS BECOMING MORE ALIVE, AND IF YOU HAVE A STRONG VISUAL SENSE, YOU MAY GET AN IMAGE OF YOUR BODY BECOMING LUMINOUS. ALTHOUGH SUCH AN IMAGE CAN HELP YOU TEMPORARILY, PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FEELING THAN TO ANY IMAGE THAT MAY ARISE, AN IMAGE, NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL OR POWERFUL, IS ALREADY DEFINED IN FORM, SO THERE IS LESS SCOPE FOR PENETRATING MORE DEEPLY.

          THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY IS FORMLESS, AND UNFATHOMABLE. YOU CAN ALWAYS GO INTO IT MORE DEEPLY. IF YOU CANNOT FEEL VERY MUCH AT THIS STAGE, PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER YOU CAN FEEL. PERHAPS THERE IS JUST A SLIGHT TINGLING IN YOUR HANDS OR FEET. THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE MOMENT, JUST FOCUS ON THE FEELING. YOUR BODY IS COMING ALIVE. LATER, WE WILL PRACTICE SOME MORE. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES NOW, BUT KEEP SOME ATTENTION IN THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF THE BODY EVEN AS YOU LOOK AROUND THE ROOM. THE INNER BODY LIES AT THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN YOUR FORM IDENTIFY AND YOUR ESSENCE IDENTIFY, YOUR TRUE NATURE. NEVER LOSE TOUCH WITH IT. 

FLOWERS HISTORY

                                               POLLEN AND NECTAR

   

           INSIDE A FLOWER THERE IS A SWEET JUICE CALLED NECTAR. AS INSECTS AND BIRDS DRINK NECTOAR, THEY TAKE POLLEN FROM ONE FLOWER TO ANOTHER. WHEN A BEE DRINKS NECTOR, POLLE STICKS TO ITS FURRY BODY. IT FLIES TO ANOTHER FLOWER OF THE SAME KIND AND SOME OF THE POLLEN DROPS OFF. THIS FLOWER NOW HAS SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER FLOWER. POLLEN CAN RUB ONTO A HUMMINGBIRD'S BEAK AS IT DRINKS NECTAR. THE POLLEN RUBS OFF INTO THE NEXT FLOWER THAT THE HUMMINGBIRD VISITS.

      BEES CAN COLLECT NECTAR FROM OVER 1000 FLOWERS BEFORE THEY FEEL FULL!

   MAKING SEEDS

          PLANTS START TO GROW SEEDS AS SOON AS THEY HAVE SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER PLANT. WHEN POLLEN LANDS ON A POPPY, A POD GROWS IN THE MIDDLE. SEEDS GROW INSIDE THE POD AND THE FLOWER BEGINS TO DIE. THE PETALS FALL OFF, LEAVING A POD FULL OF SEEDS. ALLIUMS ARE MADE UP OF LOTS OF TINY FLOWERS. EACH FLOWER BECOMES A TINY SEED POD. CHINESE LANTERN SEEDS GROW INSIDE A HOLLOW CASE. 

  SOME CATERPILLARS LIVE IN SEED PODS. WHEN THE CATERPILLARS MOVE, THE PODS SEEM TO 'JUMP'.

      SPREADING SEEDS

          SEEDS NEED LOTS OF SPACE TO GROW, SO THEY HAVE TO BE SCATTERED FAR APART. BURDOCK SHARP, SPIKY HOOKS. THEY GET CAUGHT ON AN ANIMAL'S FUR AS IT BRUSHES PAST. WHEN THE ANIMAL SCRATCHES, THE SEEDS FALL OFF. CRANE'S BILL PLANTS HAVE SEED PODS ON THIN STEMS. THE STEMS CURL UP AND SHOOT THE SEEDS OUT OF THEIR PODS. DANDELION SEEDS FLOAT ON THE WIND LIKE LITTLE PARACHUTES.

 WHEN ANTS CAN SEEDS INTO THEIR NESTS TO EAT, SOME OF THE SEEDS BEGIN TO GROW.

      RAINFOREST FLOWERS

         RAINFORESTS ARE WARM, WET PLACES. TREES BLOCK OUT SUNLIGHT, SO IT'S DARK ON THE GROUND. THE LEAVES OF GLORY LILIES HOOK INTO TREES, SO THEY CAN GROW UP TO THE SUNLIGHT. 

TANK PLANTS TRAP RAINWATER IN THEIR LEAVES. FROGS LIVE IN THE POOLS OF WATER.

     A RAFFLESIA BUD GROWS ON THE GROUND. IT GROWS AS BIG AS A CABBAGE. ITS FIVE RED PETALS START TO UNFOLD. RAFFLESIA FLOWERS ARE AS BIG AS THE WHEELS ON A TRUCK AND HAVE NO LEAVES OR STEMS. THEY SMELL OF ROTTING MEAT TO ATTRACT FLIES WHICH SPREAD THEIR POLLEN.

YOUR THOUGHTS TELLING WHO ARE YOU

                                                            THOUGHTS

     1. IMAGINATION IS THE DOOR TO INSPIRATION AND THE BASIS OF ALL THOUGHT.

     2. PUTS THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

     3. HE WHO STEPS HIS ACTIVITIES AND AT THE SAME TIME IS STILL THINKING ABOUT THEM ATTAINS TO NOTHING, HE ONLY BECOMES A HYPOCRITE. BUT HE WHO BY THE POWER OF HIS MIND GRADUALLY BRINGS HIS SENSE ORGANS UNDER CONTROL, EMPLOYING THEM IN WORK, THAT MAN IS BETTER. THEREFORE DO THOU WORK.

    4. IT IS NOT THE BUILDING, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE A CHURCH, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ALWAYS FORGET.

   5. BUT I AM PREPARED TO GO ANY DISTANCE TO SEE THE FACE OF THAT MAN WHO CAN REALLY MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SIN AND THE SINNER. IT IS EASY TO SAY SO.

  6. THE APPEARANCES OF HAPPINESS OR UNHAPPINESS OF THE SOUL ARE BUT REFLECTIONS.

  7. HEROES ONLY ENJOY THE WORLD.

  8. IN PHYSICS, THOUGHT THE SNAKE, EVEN THE ELECTRON AS A DUAL CHARACTER. SOMETIMES APPEARING AS A PARTICLE, AT OTHER TIMES AS A WAVE. THE GREAT SWAMI VIVEKANANDA WITTILY CALLED IT "WAVICLE" HE REMEMBERED.

 9. CONCENTRATION OF THE POWER OF THE MIND IS OUR ONLY INSTRUMENT TO HELP US SEE GOD.

10. WHEN YOU HAVE TRAINED YOUR MIND AND YOUR NERVES TO REALISE THIS IDEA OF THE WORLD'S NONDEPENDENCE ON YOU OR ON ANYBODY, THERE WILL THEN BE NO REACTION IN THE FORM OF PAIN RESULTING FROM WORK.

  11. THE COW NEVER TELLS A LIE, AND THE STONE NEVER STEALS, BUT, NEVERTHELESS, THE COW REMAINS A COW AND THE STONE A STONE . MAN STEALS AND MAN TELLS LIES, AND AGAIN IT IS MAN THAT BECOMES A GOD.

  12. NO MAN IS TO BE JUDGED BY THE MERE NATURE OF HIS DUTIES, BUT ALL SHOULD BE JUDGED BY THE MANNER AND THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THEY PERFORM THEM.

 13. THE MIND IS IN THREE STATES, ONE OF WHICH IS DARKNESS, CALLED TAMAS, FOUND IN BRUTES AND IDIOTS, IT ONLY ACTS TO INJURE. NO OTHER IDEA COMES INTO THAT STATE OF MIND. THEN THERE IS THE ACTIVE STATE OF MIND, RAJAS, WHOSE CHIEF MOTIVES ARE POWER AND ENJOYMENT. I WILL BE POWERFUL AND RULE OTHERS. THEN THERE IS THE STATE CALLED SATTVA, SERENITY, CALMNESS.

 14. WHAT A MEAN LEARNS IS REALLY WHAT HE DISCOVERS, BY TAKING THE COVER OFF HIS OWN SOUL, WHICH IS A MINE OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE.

  15. EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE, BUT THE DUTY OF ONE IS NOT THE DUTY OF THE OTHER.

ABOUT FLOWERS

                                         BEAUTFIFUL FLOWERS HISTORY

      THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FLOWERS GROWING ALL OVER THE WORLD.

      THESE AMAZING FLOWERS ARE PASSION FLOWERS.

SEEDS TO SEEDLINGS

    A SEED HAS A HARD SHELL WITH A YOUNG PLANT INSIDE. SEEDS GROW IN THE SOIL WHEN THE SUN AND RAIN HAS MADE THEM WARM AND WET.

  

   EACH SUNFLOWER SEED CAN GROW INTO A BIG SUNFLOWER

IN THE SOIL THE SHELL OF A SEED SPLITS

A SMALL ROOT SPROUTS OUT OF IT.

THEN A SHOOT GROWS OUT OF THE SEED

       WHEN A SHOOT BREAKS THROUGTH THE SOIL, IT IS CALLED A SEEDLING.

THE LARGEST SEED IN THE WORLD IS THE COCO DE MER. IT IS BIGGER THAN A FOOTBALL.

COCO SEED

PLANT PARTS

   MOST PLANTS ARE MADE UP OF FLOWERS, LEAVES, ROOTS AND STEMS.

THE STEMS KEEP THE PLANT UPRIGHT. LEAVES AND FLOWERS GROW ON THE STEMS.

PLANT MAKE FOOD IN THEIR GREEN LEAVES. SOME PLANTS HAVE LEAVES THAT ARE SHARP AND SPIKY. THEY GROW WELL AS ANIMALS PREFER TO EAT SMOOTH LEAVES.

LOTS OF THINGS YOU EAT ARE PLANT PARTS. BROCCOLI IS A BUNCH OF FLOWERS AND CARROTS ARE A KIND OF ROOT.

  

UNDERGROUND, THE ROOTS SOAK UP WATER FROM THE SOIL . THEY HOLD THE PLANT IN PLACE TOO.

MAKING FOOD

 PLANTS NEED FOOD TO GROW. THEY USE SUNLIGHT, AIR AND WATER TO MAKE THEIR FOOD.THE SOAK UP AIR AND SUNLIGHT. THEN THE LEAVES SUCH RAINWATER UP THE STEM FROM THE ROOTS. THE WATER, SUNLIGHT AND AIR MAKE FOOD IN THE LEAVES.

SOME PLANTS STORE THEIR FOOD IN BULBS, WHICH ARE MADE UP OF LAYERS OF SPECIAL LEAVES. ONIONS ARE A TYPE OF BULB. IF YOU CUT ONE IN HALF, YOU CAN SEE ITS LAYERS. 

ONION

BUDS TO FLOWERS

   WHEN A SEEDLING HAS GROWN INTO A STONG PLANT, IT IS READY TO GROW FLOWERS. BABY FLOWERS ARE CALLED BUDS. THE PETALS ARE TIGHTLY PACKED INSIDE A BUD. SLOWLY A BUD BEGINS TO OPEN, ITS PETALS START TO APPEAR. THE PETALS OPEN INTO A FLOWER.

IN THE MIDDLE OF A FLOWER THERE ARE LONG TUBES CALLED STAMENS. ON THE TIPS OF THE STAMENS THERE IS SOME POWDER CALLED POLLEN. PLANTS USE POLLEN TO MAKE SEEDS.