The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers, seed-vessels, - surpassing color and beautiful form, all that goes to make up a plant which is as gigantic in proportion to the bounds that confine it as the Oak is to the acorn.

An Island Garden (p. 3), Houghton Mifflin Co. 1896