First lessons in language . LESSON 204. —The Banana or Plantain Tree. 1. What kinds of bananas have you seen? 2. Are those ofdifferent colors shaped quite alike ? 3. What is their color whenimported? 4. How is the fruit arranged in the bunch? 5. Try to describe asingle one. you evernoticed theseeds ? 7. Wheredoes the ba-nana grow?8. Compare theplant in thecut with ournative trees. 9. What are the sizeand shape of the leaves ? 10. Noticehow they are torn along their parallelveins. 11. How might they be usedin building huts ? 12. Do you seethat the leaf-stalks run down thestem, making it
First lessons in language . LESSON 204. —The Banana or Plantain Tree. 1. What kinds of bananas have you seen? 2. Are those ofdifferent colors shaped quite alike ? 3. What is their color whenimported? 4. How is the fruit arranged in the bunch? 5. Try to describe asingle one. you evernoticed theseeds ? 7. Wheredoes the ba-nana grow?8. Compare theplant in thecut with ournative trees. 9. What are the sizeand shape of the leaves ? 10. Noticehow they are torn along their parallelveins. 11. How might they be usedin building huts ? 12. Do you seethat the leaf-stalks run down thestem, making it soft and fleshy, notwoody ? 13. Try to find out wherethe fibre called manilla is obtained. 14. In the drooping bunch, noticewhether the clusters of fruit standerect or hang down. 15. Each fruitis a ripened ovary. On the ends, doyou see where the flower petals havewithered ? 16. And at the end of thebunch, under the leafy bracts, do you see where the flowers growthat will never become fruit ? 17. WThen bananas are exported
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