. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. 46. Struggle for existence among the appleflowers. Pig. 47 Fruiting branch ofapricot. or simple fruit-buds (like those of the apricot andpeach), and the mixed fruit-buds (as in the apple,pear and cherry) 50. If we were to examine a fruit-bud of theapricot (or peach) just as it begins to swell inspring, we could easily see the flower within. Ifthe bud were cut lengthwise with a sharp knife. Fia. 48. Fruit-bud ot apricot in longitudinal section. LUSSOJVS WITH PLANTS and the section were ma
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. 46. Struggle for existence among the appleflowers. Pig. 47 Fruiting branch ofapricot. or simple fruit-buds (like those of the apricot andpeach), and the mixed fruit-buds (as in the apple,pear and cherry) 50. If we were to examine a fruit-bud of theapricot (or peach) just as it begins to swell inspring, we could easily see the flower within. Ifthe bud were cut lengthwise with a sharp knife. Fia. 48. Fruit-bud ot apricot in longitudinal section. LUSSOJVS WITH PLANTS and the section were magnified threeor four times, the internal structurewould come out plainly, as in The parts are not diflBcultto see with the naked eye. Theseparts are all present in the budbefore it begins to swell, but theyare rather small for untrained see that the parts are not onlysmaller than they are in the full-blown flower, but that they arefolded or tucked away in an unexpected manner. 51. An opening pear bud is seen in Fig. is evident that it is a leaf-bud. It is wholly unlike the expanding applebud (Fig. 44), however. It is long andslender, and curiously marked. Let thepupil watch the pear buds as they will observe that these outer bodiesare the bud-scales, and that they soonfall off. These scales have actuallj^ grown,for their former dimensions are indicatedby their brown tips. It was these tipsalone which covered the bud in winter,and the scales have elongated fr
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