Plants about us
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- Plants about us
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1937
- Subject
- Plants.
- Rights
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- Abstract
- Here are entered plants with two ways of growing.
- Fulltext
- '1G CITIZEN PLANTS ABOUT US PLANTS WITH TWO WAYS OF GROWING 189 Now chat the rainy season is here. you will want to plant anew in your little garden at home if perhaps only to increase your sampa·guitas and dama de nochc or co make camote leaves climb somewhere in the backyard to help hum - bly the supply of your mother's vegetables. Of course you all know that many plants can grow only from seeds. Many plants, however. can grow from seeds and also in other ways. Lee us sec what some· of these plants are. Planes chat belong to the Lily Family can grow from seeds as other plants can. Another way lilies on grow is from bulbs. A bulb is a chick somewhat ball-shaped. underground pare to which the roots arc attached. It has layers that fie snugly together one outside another. Ac ·first a lily plane has only one bulb. but after a while smaller bulbs form near the first one. 1 hesc bulbs can be taken off and set in the ground, and will grow into lily plantlf that will biossom and have seeds and bulbs of their own. One very common relative of the lilies is grown for food. Did you know that when you eat an onion you cat the bulb of a plant chat belongs l'C\ the Lily Family ? The underground stems of some plants arc thickened into parts wc call cubers. A tuber is one solid piece and not in layers. On the surface are buds. which we sometimes call eyes. (Please turn to page 192) PLANTS WITH TWO (Continued from page 189) The· tubers you know best of all is a potato. A potato piant can be grown from a seed, but that is not the common way of doing it: Before a farmer plants a potato he cuts the tubers into pieces, leaving at least one bud to each piece. In this way he gets several plants 'from one tuber b(:cause each bud can grow into a whole plant with leaves and blossoms and tubers and roots "of its own. Some plants are started by cutting off a piece of stem from an old one and putting it in water. Such a piece is spoken of as a slip. After a slip has been in water for some time, roots begin to ~row on it. Then it can be set out in earth. By means of slips we plant roses, the rosal. the dama de noche, the sampaguita and o~her·decora tive plants at home. Can you name others? Certain trees can be grown this way as the cacawate. Plants like the banana have young shoots that appear around the mother tree. These are the ones transplanted when one wishes to start a new group of trees. Tell in what way or ways may these plants be grown: l. gumamela 2. ubi 3. spidrr-lily 4. ginger 5. guava 6. sugar cane 7. bogainvilla 8. 9. I 0. San Francisco plant gabi four-o'clock plant