. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. 100 SOILS AND PLANT LIFE which are harvested or gathered by hand, as the cotton and corn, are held up at a convenient height to pick. 76. Study of the Forms of Stems. — Nothing will fix in our minds the habits and uses of stems so well as a field study and a col- lection of them. Gather at least three specimens of plants with prostrate stems, three with climbing stems and three with erect stems. Record in your notebook where each was gathered, that is, whether in pasture, cultivated field, or- chard, or elsewhere; a
. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. 100 SOILS AND PLANT LIFE which are harvested or gathered by hand, as the cotton and corn, are held up at a convenient height to pick. 76. Study of the Forms of Stems. — Nothing will fix in our minds the habits and uses of stems so well as a field study and a col- lection of them. Gather at least three specimens of plants with prostrate stems, three with climbing stems and three with erect stems. Record in your notebook where each was gathered, that is, whether in pasture, cultivated field, or- chard, or elsewhere; also, tell what chance it had to get plent_v of light, and what is the use of the plant to man. EXERCISE 33. Cornstalks with burden. Object. — To become familiar v,-\ih the char- acter of stems. Procedure. — Place the stem of a mature com plant, a mature, dry morning glory vine and some prostrate plant, as the purslane or the prostrate pigweed, on the table before you. Notice the joints, or nodes, on the cornstalk; also that there are joints on the other stems, though they are different in appearance from those of the corn 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 Cunningham, Jules Cool, 1879-; Lancelot, William Henry, 1874-. New York : Macmillan
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