. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. Fig. 115 Poplar. A very covi- ijion tree. (BROOKLYN- BOTANIC garden) PROBLEM 2. The Kinds of Plants of the Earth how many acres of wheat there must be. In the tropics there grow the large banana plant and a giant grass, the sugar cane, that makes much~orThy Sllgar eateTT uonocotyledons, as the by-man. St d^te and coconut palms,^re~trees. Tfiey supply mucli^food. n Many dicots are trees. You have already read about the cTTrTC'''5earers; the rest of our native trees are dicots except for one or two palm species which grow in the semitropical climate
. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. Fig. 115 Poplar. A very covi- ijion tree. (BROOKLYN- BOTANIC garden) PROBLEM 2. The Kinds of Plants of the Earth how many acres of wheat there must be. In the tropics there grow the large banana plant and a giant grass, the sugar cane, that makes much~orThy Sllgar eateTT uonocotyledons, as the by-man. St d^te and coconut palms,^re~trees. Tfiey supply mucli^food. n Many dicots are trees. You have already read about the cTTrTC'''5earers; the rest of our native trees are dicots except for one or two palm species which grow in the semitropical climate of Florida and southern California. A4ost dicot trees in our country shed their leaves at the end of the season and are for this reason called decidi/07/s (de-sid'you-us). The deciduous trees are rather generally re- ferred to as "hardwoods" by foresters and lumbermen. There are several families of trees widely spread through large portions of the United States; you are probably familiar with most of them. If you can recognize oaks^^jjiaples. elms, ories or walnuts you are acquainted with 85 Fig. 116 Oak. This and the poplar and ehii have feather net veins. (AMERICAN MUSEUM of natural history) Fig. 114 This shagbark hickory leaf is a coin- pound leaf. (brookly'N botanic garden) Fig. 117 Elm. H01V can yon recognize it? (AMERI- CAN MU- SEUM OF NATURAL history) Fig. 118 Red maple. How can yon distin- guish this Tiiaple from the one in Figure 110? (AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL history) w. 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 Kroeber, Elsbeth, 1882-; Wolff, Walter Harold, 1901-. Boston : D. C. Heath
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