. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. Leaves growing out of a pine-apple. 3. Indeed, in the pine-apple, as you know, the leaves push through the fruit and continue the growth upward. The same thing may now and then be seen in a rose-bloom. Pears, too, are sometimes found with a tuft of leaves growing out of the fruit. 4. If, now, I tell you that new plants sometimes grow out of a single leaf, you will not be surprised. How a single leaf can make new plants. There is a leaf that throws o
. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. Leaves growing out of a pine-apple. 3. Indeed, in the pine-apple, as you know, the leaves push through the fruit and continue the growth upward. The same thing may now and then be seen in a rose-bloom. Pears, too, are sometimes found with a tuft of leaves growing out of the fruit. 4. If, now, I tell you that new plants sometimes grow out of a single leaf, you will not be surprised. How a single leaf can make new plants. There is a leaf that throws out roots at every notch of the edge when it is placed on damp, warm soil. In this way a crop of new plants may spring up all round the edge. The coleus and the beautiful begonias, so common in our plant-houses, are often multiplied hy leaf-rooting.* Have you ever noticed the little plants that grow on the leaves of some ferns ? Now and then, too, one finds little plants growing on the leaves of water-cress or cabbage. 5. How a bramble goes on its travels. Here is a little bramble plant four inches high, on the north side of a hedge ten feet high. We return jr,^ 1,1 in a year or two, Bramble bush rooting. and find that the. * Cut into the veins slightly where they are strongest, and then press the leaf on warm, moist earth. Do not bury the 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 Gillies, William. Melbourne, Whitcombe & Tombs, Ltd
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