. New elementary agriculture for rural and graded schools; an elementary text book dealing with the plants, insects, birds, weather, and animals of the farm . plant which depends forits success in life mainly on its own bigness. Its schemeis to push up so high into the world of sunshine that the weeds and other plants cannottrouble it. To this end it mustgenerally have the means ofgetting a quick start in therace; accordingly, many treesproduce nuts or acorns, whichare seeds with a particularlylarge and rich supply of when the seed germinates,the shoot pushes up very rapidlyand soon ov
. New elementary agriculture for rural and graded schools; an elementary text book dealing with the plants, insects, birds, weather, and animals of the farm . plant which depends forits success in life mainly on its own bigness. Its schemeis to push up so high into the world of sunshine that the weeds and other plants cannottrouble it. To this end it mustgenerally have the means ofgetting a quick start in therace; accordingly, many treesproduce nuts or acorns, whichare seeds with a particularlylarge and rich supply of when the seed germinates,the shoot pushes up very rapidlyand soon overtops its rivals andgets the lions share of the sun-shine. Now, since the tree hasplanned to grow so large andtall, it will have a new adver-sary to battle with; namely, thewind. The smaller plants whichstrive to grow in the shade ofthe woods need not troublethemselves to form stiff stems,and they generally do not. Butthe tree must have a particularlystout stem, well hardened withwoody fiber, and it must buryits great roots deep in the soil inorder to anchor the tree to theearth, so that it may stand °°° Strain of wind and
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