Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] Two stages in an experiment to show that green plants grow toward the light. light is of very great importance to a growing plant, because, as we shall see later, food-making depends largely on the amount of sunlight the leaves receive. Structure of a Bud. — If we cut a head of cabbage so that the knife blade cuts through the long axis of the stem, we find that the stem is much shortened or dwarfed, and that the leaves are so placed
Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] Two stages in an experiment to show that green plants grow toward the light. light is of very great importance to a growing plant, because, as we shall see later, food-making depends largely on the amount of sunlight the leaves receive. Structure of a Bud. — If we cut a head of cabbage so that the knife blade cuts through the long axis of the stem, we find that the stem is much shortened or dwarfed, and that the leaves are so placed as to cover it entirely. The cabbage is a big bud. If we carry out our definition of a bud, starting with what we have seen in the cabbage, we might say that a bud is a very much shortened branch, or in reality '' the promise of a branch.'
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