. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CUCUMBER little taste and is mostly water, yet it is and has been persistently sought by the human race. The plant will grow in rich soil wherever there are three or four months without frost, but it can transmute air and water and carbonic acid into fruit only under the stimulus of consider- able, or rather of continuous heat. It requires a warm root-run;. Cucumber. Citcumis sativus as soon as the ground cools the vine's work is over. Not all the flowers produce cucum
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CUCUMBER little taste and is mostly water, yet it is and has been persistently sought by the human race. The plant will grow in rich soil wherever there are three or four months without frost, but it can transmute air and water and carbonic acid into fruit only under the stimulus of consider- able, or rather of continuous heat. It requires a warm root-run;. Cucumber. Citcumis sativus as soon as the ground cools the vine's work is over. Not all the flowers produce cucumbers; those that grow in clusters never do, they have stamens but no pistils; the pistillate fruit-producing blossoms are solitary. Cucumis melo includes the Muskmelon in all its varieties, which, like the Cucumber, is an Indian plant, but has also been found wild in western Africa, in Guinea, and along the banks of the Niger. It is cultivated by the human race wherever the climate will permit. The rough, hairy, trailing stem grows five to ten feet long, bearing heart-shaped leaves with rounded lobes. The blossoms are polyg- amo-monoecious; that is, pistillate, staminate, and perfect flowers are found on the same plant. Gardeners say that the melons produced by the perfect flowers have the better flavor. The fruit is globose, cylindrical, or ovate. The seeds have great vitality, which has doubtless aided in the wide-spread dissemination of the plant. 433. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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