. [Scientific lectures]. Beet Roots. 16 It would be more interesting- if we could have the same root rep-resented in the three different stages, so that the change could benoted, but as that could not be, I have endeavored to obtain health-ful, srood-looking plants. Of course the roots are covered withminute hairs which are too fine for the pencil to represent, constitut-ing so many mouths to feed the plant. Our next representation is of Indian com, and is of the greaterinterest as all previous figures used in various books seem to havebeen made by guess work. In the American Agriculturalist f
. [Scientific lectures]. Beet Roots. 16 It would be more interesting- if we could have the same root rep-resented in the three different stages, so that the change could benoted, but as that could not be, I have endeavored to obtain health-ful, srood-looking plants. Of course the roots are covered withminute hairs which are too fine for the pencil to represent, constitut-ing so many mouths to feed the plant. Our next representation is of Indian com, and is of the greaterinterest as all previous figures used in various books seem to havebeen made by guess work. In the American Agriculturalist for1880, are various figures of the rootlets of Indian com, but all failin showing it as I find it by washing out the Indian sprouted—B where stalk ia two Inches hig-h. 16 At A, the com is represented as just sprouted, the plumule, orstalk, tending upward and the tap root directly downward. In afew hours after sprouting, little rootlets extend from the end of thekernel that aid in the rapid growth of the young plant, and in devel-oping the first tier of sucker roots, which are sent out a few dayslater. The kernel with its rootlets thus attached may be seen at few days later the roots assume the appearance seen in the sec-ond cut, when the stalk is about five inches high.
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