. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 32 FOOD RESEKVOIKS purplish brown color appears, starch is present. Cut the part open and moisten the fresh surface with iodine (to be had at the drug store). The test will usually give. 43. A winter branch bearing leaves inside a window, wliile still attached to the tree outside. the best reaction when the part is perfectly dormant. Starch may be found in nearly all twigs in fall and winter. Test them. 76. This stored plant-food enables the 2)lant to start quickly in the spring, without waiting for full root-action to begin; and it enables the
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 32 FOOD RESEKVOIKS purplish brown color appears, starch is present. Cut the part open and moisten the fresh surface with iodine (to be had at the drug store). The test will usually give. 43. A winter branch bearing leaves inside a window, wliile still attached to the tree outside. the best reaction when the part is perfectly dormant. Starch may be found in nearly all twigs in fall and winter. Test them. 76. This stored plant-food enables the 2)lant to start quickly in the spring, without waiting for full root-action to begin; and it enables the plantlet in the seed to grow until it establishes itself in the soil. The flowers of early-blooming trees are developed mostly" from the nourishment stored in the twigs, not from the materials taken in at the time by the roots. This can be demonstrated by bringing branches of peach, apple, and other early - blooming plants into the house in the winter and keeping them in water; they will bloom and **â ^Tiunip!'"'^''" sometimes even make leaves. Study Fig. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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