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...