. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Egg-shell experiment farm. The plants from left to right are: cabbage, field com, popcorn, wheat, buckwheat. SEED GERMINATION Less than three decades ago, this one feature of plant life once came near "gobbling up" all of nature-study, and yet it is merely an incident in the growth of the plant. To sprout seeds is absurd as an object in itself; it is incidental as is the breaking of the egg-shell to the study of the chicken. The peeping into a seed like a bean or a pea, to s
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Egg-shell experiment farm. The plants from left to right are: cabbage, field com, popcorn, wheat, buckwheat. SEED GERMINATION Less than three decades ago, this one feature of plant life once came near "gobbling up" all of nature-study, and yet it is merely an incident in the growth of the plant. To sprout seeds is absurd as an object in itself; it is incidental as is the breaking of the egg-shell to the study of the chicken. The peeping into a seed like a bean or a pea, to see that the plant is really there, with its lunch put up by its mother packed all around it, is interesting to the child. To watch the little plant develop, to study its seed-leaves and what becomes of them, to know that they give the plant its first food and to know how a young plant looks and acts, are all items of legitimate interest in the study of the life of a plant; in fact the struggle of the little plant to get free from its seed-coats may be a truly dramatic story. (See "First Lessons with Plants," Bailey, page 7g). But to regard this feature as the chief object of planting seed is manifestly 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 Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Publishing Company
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