. A companion to Blackie's tropical readers, books I and II : containing suggestions for experiemnts and practical work . (b) The Mango Seed.—Cut open the stone of amango and note the real seed inside with its own cover-ings. The part of a mango thrown away, and spoken ofas the seed or stone, is, in reality, the seed coveredwith the third or hard layer of the fruit itself. (c) The Coconut is a FibrousDrupe. — Make a drawing ofa cross section of a coconut,colouring the different partsand explaining, by compar-ing it with a mango, why itis correct to call it a fibrousdrupe. Expt. 52. Legumes or
. A companion to Blackie's tropical readers, books I and II : containing suggestions for experiemnts and practical work . (b) The Mango Seed.—Cut open the stone of amango and note the real seed inside with its own cover-ings. The part of a mango thrown away, and spoken ofas the seed or stone, is, in reality, the seed coveredwith the third or hard layer of the fruit itself. (c) The Coconut is a FibrousDrupe. — Make a drawing ofa cross section of a coconut,colouring the different partsand explaining, by compar-ing it with a mango, why itis correct to call it a fibrousdrupe. Expt. 52. Legumes or Pods.—Observe that pods ( redpea, Barbados pride, rattle-bush, butterfly plant) aremade of one cell only, andthat they possess two seamssiiiqua by which they open andFig. 20 scatter their seeds. Collect pods, closed and open, fromten different kinds of plants. Expt. 53. Capsules (fig. 21).—Collect and examinefruits of the sand-box, anatta, and okra, and of threeother plants with capsules; particularly observe anythat are split open and have shed their seeds. Kecordthe number of divisions in each Legume EXPERIMENTS AND PRACTICAL WORK 45
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