. Agriculture [microform]. Agriculture; Agriculture. 98 AGRICULTURE. ply to the crops of the garden. More may be learned by working among the plants growing in the garden, and at the same time using your eyes. What parts of the following plants do we use as food ? Common rad- ishes, horse radish, cahhaj^e, caulitlower, lettuce, celery, artichokes, onions, asparagus, potatoes, rhuharh, and spinach. Explain the hleaching out of celery hy hanking up. Will the stalks bleach out if grown on the level close together? What is the difference between top onions, potato onions and onion sets? Is lettuce
. Agriculture [microform]. Agriculture; Agriculture. 98 AGRICULTURE. ply to the crops of the garden. More may be learned by working among the plants growing in the garden, and at the same time using your eyes. What parts of the following plants do we use as food ? Common rad- ishes, horse radish, cahhaj^e, caulitlower, lettuce, celery, artichokes, onions, asparagus, potatoes, rhuharh, and spinach. Explain the hleaching out of celery hy hanking up. Will the stalks bleach out if grown on the level close together? What is the difference between top onions, potato onions and onion sets? Is lettuce an annual or a biennial ? Classify the crops given above as annuals, biennials and perennials. Are all the blossoms on a cucuml)er vine alike? Which produce fruit? Is ihe cucuml)er plant inon(ecious or diiecious? See pjge 70. '\\\\i S'iKAWiiKUKv.—If you pull off the petals of a rose blossom you find the stalk on which it grew is somewhat enlarged at the end. This little swollen end is called the "; In the case of the strawberry which we eat, we see a large luimber of small hard grains in little pits on the surface of the soft, fleshy fruit. If the hard grains vere large enough we could open them, and see that each one is a little seed. The part we find so ])leasant to eat, then, is not the seed. What :a it? Jiy examining the stalks bearing green berries as well as those bearing rij)e berries, we observe that it is the swollen end of the stem, that is the rece[)tacle. If a ripe berry is cut in two, the seeds will be found to be onnected ^vlth tlie stalk. The strawberry. plant is a member of the rose family (rosaccic) to which belong a large number of our conmion fruit-bearing plants, as well as some other common plants, such as the plum, the cherry, the strawberry, the rasjjberry, the blackberry, the wild rose, the hawthorn, the , the apple, the ( Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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