. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. 42 FIRST STUDIES IN PLANT LIFE veins in the leaves. If you take a ring of bark off the stem of a growing plant you will not touch these tubes, and therefore the leaves will still receive water from the roots, and will not droop. 4. Cut, now, the leaf stalk of the vine near the point where it joins the stem, and note the tough tubes that run from the sap-wood into the leaf.* You. Dauubian reed cut to show the scattered root-sap tubes. A Palm tree. ca
. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. 42 FIRST STUDIES IN PLANT LIFE veins in the leaves. If you take a ring of bark off the stem of a growing plant you will not touch these tubes, and therefore the leaves will still receive water from the roots, and will not droop. 4. Cut, now, the leaf stalk of the vine near the point where it joins the stem, and note the tough tubes that run from the sap-wood into the leaf.* You. Dauubian reed cut to show the scattered root-sap tubes. A Palm tree. can see how these tubes serve the leaf both as veins and bones. The stem too is strengthened by the ring of tough tubes, so that, long before the hard heart- wood is formed, the tender looking stem can stand the strain of a storm in a way that fills an architect with wonder and delight. Look at a daffodil bending to a spring breeze; look at a field of wheat swaying with graceful ease as gust follows gust, and you may have * The ring of sap-tubes running up from the stem to the leaf-stalk can be seen very clearly on the leaf-scar of the Virginia 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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