. Agriculture for the Kansas common schools. Agriculture. 40 AGRICULTURE. A catalpa trunk attacked by- bracket fungus. The feeding part of the fungus is inside the tree. The part which comes out and forms the bracket is the spore-bearing jiart. The spores are borne in slits on the under side of the bracket, wiiich cor- respond to the gills of the mush- room. make their own sugar and starch. The toadstool, the bracket fungus, and the common mold are examples of these. These plants depend for their food upon starch and sugar manufactured and stored by green plants. For this reason, toadstools an
. Agriculture for the Kansas common schools. Agriculture. 40 AGRICULTURE. A catalpa trunk attacked by- bracket fungus. The feeding part of the fungus is inside the tree. The part which comes out and forms the bracket is the spore-bearing jiart. The spores are borne in slits on the under side of the bracket, wiiich cor- respond to the gills of the mush- room. make their own sugar and starch. The toadstool, the bracket fungus, and the common mold are examples of these. These plants depend for their food upon starch and sugar manufactured and stored by green plants. For this reason, toadstools and bracket fungi grow- on rotten wood or decaying roots, or even sometimes infest living trees and destroy them. Black mold grows very commonly on bread. Green mildew grows on cheese, orange peels, and the like. Some plants which reproduce by means of spores, and which can not make their own starch and sugar, get this material from live plants, and are called parasite^. The wheat rust, corn and wheat smuts, the black knot of the plum, and some other plant diseases are examples of these. Other Ways of Plant Propagation. Another way in which plants reproduce is by means of propagating roots, as do the bindweed and the Canadian thistle. Other plants reproduce by means of underground stems. Of this method the tuber of the potato furnishes an example. The rootstocks of the canna and those of Johnson grass are other good examples of this kind of propagation. Some plants reproduce by means of bulbs. The onion, the tube- rose, and the hyacinth are examples of bulb-producing plants. Strawberries and buffalo and Bermuda grass reproduce by means of runners which are sent out and take root and grow. Black raspberries form new plants from the tips of their stems, which bend to the ground and take root. From these points new stems grow up. Conditions of Growth. Some plants grow best where. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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