. Principles of plant culture; an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. Fig. 7. Showing nature's provision to enable the pumpkin plantlel to escape from the seed-case. In B, the hoolf on the hypocotyl is at- tached to the lower half of the seed-case. A shows the same after germination is farther advanced. A fully-germinated pumpkin plantlet is shown at Fig. 8. considerably held back by the seed-case during ger- mination. 42. Seeds of the Pumpkin Family should be Planted Flatwise, rather than edgewise or endwise, since i
. Principles of plant culture; an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. Fig. 7. Showing nature's provision to enable the pumpkin plantlel to escape from the seed-case. In B, the hoolf on the hypocotyl is at- tached to the lower half of the seed-case. A shows the same after germination is farther advanced. A fully-germinated pumpkin plantlet is shown at Fig. 8. considerably held back by the seed-case during ger- mination. 42. Seeds of the Pumpkin Family should be Planted Flatwise, rather than edgewise or endwise, since in this position they most readily free themselves from the seed-ease. 43. Some Plantlets Need Help to Burst the Seed- Case. In many seeds having hard and strong seed- cases, as the walnut, butternut and hickory nut and the pits of the plum, peach and cherry, the enlarging plant- * Xatural order CucurMtacear. 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. University Co-operative Co.
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