. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. HOW PLANTS MULTIPLY WITHOUT SEEDS 149. Leaves growing out of a pine-apple. 3. Indeed, in the pine-apple, as you know, the leaves push through the fruit and continue the growth upward. The same thing may now and then be seen in a rose-bloom. Pears, too, are sometimes found with a tuft of leaves growing out of the fruit. 4. If, now, I tell you that new plants sometimes grow out of a single leaf, you will not be surprised. How a single leaf can make ne
. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. HOW PLANTS MULTIPLY WITHOUT SEEDS 149. Leaves growing out of a pine-apple. 3. Indeed, in the pine-apple, as you know, the leaves push through the fruit and continue the growth upward. The same thing may now and then be seen in a rose-bloom. Pears, too, are sometimes found with a tuft of leaves growing out of the fruit. 4. If, now, I tell you that new plants sometimes grow out of a single leaf, you will not be surprised. How a single leaf can make new plants. There is a leaf that throws out roots at every notch of the edge when it is placed on damp, warm soil. In this way a crop of new plants may spring up all round the edge. The coleus and the beautiful begonias, so common in our plant-houses, are often multiplied hy leaf-rooting.* Have you ever noticed the little plants that grow on the leaves of some ferns ? Now and then, too, one finds little plants growing on the leaves of water-cress or cabbage. 5. How a bramble goes on its travels. Here is a little bramble plant four inches high, on the north side of a hedge ten feet high. We return jr,^ 1,1 in a year or two, Bramble bush rooting. and find that the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gillies, William. Melbourne, Whitcombe & Tombs, Ltd
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