. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 62 THE PLANT: A GENERAL EXTERNAL VIEW helps maintain the life of the race. Roots, stems, and leaves are organs of nutrition; the flower is an organ of repro- duction. Leaves are principally for photo- synthesis. Flowers are exclusively for seed production. The way in which they produce seed is described in a later chapter. 20. Fruits.—At the grocer's we buy fruits and vegetables. The grocer has no difficulty in telling a fruit from a vegetable, but he woul
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 62 THE PLANT: A GENERAL EXTERNAL VIEW helps maintain the life of the race. Roots, stems, and leaves are organs of nutrition; the flower is an organ of repro- duction. Leaves are principally for photo- synthesis. Flowers are exclusively for seed production. The way in which they produce seed is described in a later chapter. 20. Fruits.—At the grocer's we buy fruits and vegetables. The grocer has no difficulty in telling a fruit from a vegetable, but he would have great dif- ficulty in telling what Fig ;Brown-eyed Susan" (Rudbeckia). fmits an(j vegetableS The part commonly called the flower of this " plant is composed of many small flowers such are. 1 ry it yourself tO as are shown, in three stages, at the left. ggg These tWO terms are convenient, but not exact. An exact term stands for a definite idea, and only exact terms can be accurately defined. You can make lists of fruits and vegetables, but a list is not a definition. Exact terms may not be necessary in the grocery busi- ness, but they are very necessary in science. So in science the word fruit is used to denote that structure, whatever its appearance, which follows the flower and contains the seeds. Thus a tomato, though a vegetable to a grocer, is a fruit to a 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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