The Concealed Plant
“The very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe. I watch my garden beds after they are sown, and think how one of God’s exquisite miracles is going on beneath the dark earth out of sight.” . Thaxter. Again seedtime has arrived! An instinctive urge arises within the city dweller as well as the tiller of the soil to plant those small granules which contain the embryos of the prospective crops and...