. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Inner Structure of the Plantlct. 51 It is in this layer that growth in diameter (71) of the stera occurs. The bark of plants having the cambium laj-er sep- arates readily from the wood, at times when growth is rapid, because the walls of the newly-formed cambium cells are gu ^^ St. 5t^-- c— e—- Fig. 20. ShowiDg transverse section of corner of a bean stem (Vicia faba). C, cambium layer; e, epidermis; Ca, cuticle; 5^. stoma. The dark, oval-shaped


. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Inner Structure of the Plantlct. 51 It is in this layer that growth in diameter (71) of the stera occurs. The bark of plants having the cambium laj-er sep- arates readily from the wood, at times when growth is rapid, because the walls of the newly-formed cambium cells are gu ^^ St. 5t^-- c— e—- Fig. 20. ShowiDg transverse section of corner of a bean stem (Vicia faba). C, cambium layer; e, epidermis; Ca, cuticle; 5^. stoma. The dark, oval-shaped spots, extending both sides of the cambium layer are the vascular bundles; W, wood cells .>f the vascular bundles. Moderately magnified. (After Potter). extremely thin and tender. The slimy surface of growing wood, whence the bark has just been removed, is due to the protoplasm from the ruptured cells. In plants having more than one cotj'ledon, the cambium line is usuall}- readily dis- cerned in cross sections of the stem,— though it is rather more distinct, and the bark is more readily separable, in wood}' than in herbaceous* stems. In the latter, the part * stems that do not have the hard, firm texture of wood, as of the potato, rhu- barb, etc., are said to be 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 Goff, E. S. (Emmett Stull), 1852-1902. Madison, Wis. : E. S. Goff


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