. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. i6o STEMS enriches the soil. In the spring, when the ground is not likely to freeze again, the mulch may be raked off. Soon the young shoots of the tulip appear. At first they draw nourishment from the bulbs, but after they are fully de- veloped, they will store nourishment back in the bulbs again. New bulbs may develop as branches from the old ones, and new and old ones may both be used in making FlGâ ^⢠bulb' ^^Y4"16 beds for the following ri
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. i6o STEMS enriches the soil. In the spring, when the ground is not likely to freeze again, the mulch may be raked off. Soon the young shoots of the tulip appear. At first they draw nourishment from the bulbs, but after they are fully de- veloped, they will store nourishment back in the bulbs again. New bulbs may develop as branches from the old ones, and new and old ones may both be used in making FlGâ ^⢠bulb' ^^Y4"16 beds for the following right the short stem and the overlapping c' scales are evident. D. Corms. â Most boys and girls who live in the coun- try have tasted the Indian turnip. It has a taste which no one forgets, and no one cares to taste it more than once. After that, you are willing to let others taste it for you. It does not poison you unless you eat too much of it, but it does make you wish for quite a while that you could get away from your mouth. By cooking, however, the Indian turnip may be made palatable and the Indians did use it for food. The Indian turnip is a corm. It is the base of the stem of that interesting plant, Jack-in-the-pulpit (see page 279). The flowers are quite common in the woods in May. The corm is a fleshy, rounded, underground part of the stem with scale leaves on it. It grows from year to year and sometimes forms small corms as branches. These sepa-. 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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