. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. y that crocuses lift out of the ground,and they advise that the bulbs be taken up every two or threeyears and replanted. Can the pupil suggest an explanation? 449. If there were only one new corm formedfor every old one, the plant would not increaseitself. The picture shows corn;iels, or spawn ^as the gardeners say, arising from the baseof the mother-corm, much as offsets arisefrom the house-leek (a. Fig. 376). If theseare removed and cared for, full-grown orflowering corms may be obtained in
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. y that crocuses lift out of the ground,and they advise that the bulbs be taken up every two or threeyears and replanted. Can the pupil suggest an explanation? 449. If there were only one new corm formedfor every old one, the plant would not increaseitself. The picture shows corn;iels, or spawn ^as the gardeners say, arising from the baseof the mother-corm, much as offsets arisefrom the house-leek (a. Fig. 376). If theseare removed and cared for, full-grown orflowering corms may be obtained in one ortwo years. , 450. We have found(43, 44, 45) that theearly flower-ing of treesis made pos-sible by thematurationof the bud ^- ., Short rhizome of agrimony. m the pre-vious season; and the twig stores up sufficientnutriment to push out the flowers, and, in mostcases, even to start off the leafy growth. Thesame is true of much of the early herb growthof spring. In fall or winter, examine the rootsof any very early-starting plant and see if greatbuds are not formed, ready to leap forth with the. 360 LBS SONS WITS PLANTS first warmth of spring. Fig. 377 is the root andcrown of the agrimony, as it was dug up oneNovember day. (See Figs. 278, 279). 451. There is a short corm-like crown, fromthe bottom of which roots arise, and upon thetop of which several strong buds are old stalk of last year is at K. This willnot grow again, but new stalks will take its
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