. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. CUTTINGS AND GRAFTS 377 proper conditions of temperature and parts are cuttings (Figs. 399, 400). Nor isit always necessary that the cuttings should bemade of stems. They are often made of rootsand frequently of leaves. Fig. 401 shows a plant. Adventitiousplantlets onbegonia leaf. starting and roots formingfrom the apex of a triangularportion of a begonia leafwhich had been inserted in the the farmer plants potatoes, hemakes cuttings of tubers. 477. While many stems w
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. CUTTINGS AND GRAFTS 377 proper conditions of temperature and parts are cuttings (Figs. 399, 400). Nor isit always necessary that the cuttings should bemade of stems. They are often made of rootsand frequently of leaves. Fig. 401 shows a plant. Adventitiousplantlets onbegonia leaf. starting and roots formingfrom the apex of a triangularportion of a begonia leafwhich had been inserted in the the farmer plants potatoes, hemakes cuttings of tubers. 477. While many stems will grow when plantedbottom end up (as the willow often does), mak-ing roots indifferently from either end, most root-cuttings persist in making stems only from theend which was uppermost on the plant. Fig. 402is a picture, from life, of a root-cutting (0, N)of horse-radish, which was planted bottom end up. 378 LESSORS WITS PLANTS
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