. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. 76 VARIOUS FOOD l^LANTS. Fig. so, I.—Pumpldn {Cucurbita Pcpo. Gourd P'aniily, Cucnrhitacrw). Flowering })ranch. (Baillon.)—The plant is an annual climbing more or less hy means of tendrils, and attainin^^ a length of 7 ni.; stem and leaves bright green, bristly hairy; flowers yellow; fruit variousb^ colored in different varieties, and widely different in appearance as shown in Figs. 81, I-IV. controls the making of carbohydrates, although neither the iron nor the potassium enter into tlie product. Much of the process
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. 76 VARIOUS FOOD l^LANTS. Fig. so, I.—Pumpldn {Cucurbita Pcpo. Gourd P'aniily, Cucnrhitacrw). Flowering })ranch. (Baillon.)—The plant is an annual climbing more or less hy means of tendrils, and attainin^^ a length of 7 ni.; stem and leaves bright green, bristly hairy; flowers yellow; fruit variousb^ colored in different varieties, and widely different in appearance as shown in Figs. 81, I-IV. controls the making of carbohydrates, although neither the iron nor the potassium enter into tlie product. Much of the process of food-mal-cing as well as of the conditions under which it takes place, is as yet imperfectly understood by physiologists. A living plant has lieen well compared to a food-factory where wc may see the raw materials which go in and the products which come out, but where we can only guess as to what goes on inside, for on the door is written "No ad- ; We know that in some way the body of a plant is built up of highly complex materials which it makes by recombining the (dements of relatively simple substances. We know also tliat so long as it lives the plant is breaking down the complex compounds into simpler un(>s whicli it gets. 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 Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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