. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. of the old-fashioned tomatoes. 126 LESSONS WITS PLANTS local or transient conditions), but are a distinctand habitual feature of the tree. In other words,some plants normally bear two kinds of Fig. of ordinary tomatoes. 137. The pupil_ has already been directed () to a study of the leaves of accompanying illustrations (Figs. 123-126) will l^ABIATION IN LEAVES 127 aid him. Notice the small and curled involutefoliage in Fig. 123, which
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. of the old-fashioned tomatoes. 126 LESSONS WITS PLANTS local or transient conditions), but are a distinctand habitual feature of the tree. In other words,some plants normally bear two kinds of Fig. of ordinary tomatoes. 137. The pupil_ has already been directed () to a study of the leaves of accompanying illustrations (Figs. 123-126) will l^ABIATION IN LEAVES 127 aid him. Notice the small and curled involutefoliage in Fig. 123, which may be found in someof the old-fashioned cornered or rough tomatoeslike General Grant and Tom Thumb; the largeand plane foliage of Fig. 124, which is that ofthe commonest va-rieties ; the verylarge foliage, withfewer and nearly en-tire leaflets, of theMikado and Potato-leaf varieties (; also, shownin Fig. 90); andthe short, stiff andcurly foliage of theFrench Upright to-mato (Fig. 126).These types of foli-age are characteris-tic of certain typesor varieties of to-matoes, just as theforms of leaves are characteristic of the appletree and the pear tree; but, as a matter of history,all these varieties are known to have come fromone type of tomato within a hundred years. Thuswe have another proof that the fo
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