EXPERIMENTS AND PRACTICAL WORK 



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Fig. 21. Capsules 



Expt. 54. Scattering of Seeds. 



(a) Eecord the greatest distance from the parent plant 

 that you have known of seeds being scattered by natural 

 means. 



(b) Pick several pods or capsules that are nearly ready 

 to split open; put near a fire or in bright sunshine and 

 observe the result. 



Expt. 55. Compound Fruits. 



(a) Observe by watching from time to time that a 

 number of separate flowers go to form the fruits of the 

 pine-apple, bread-fruit, and jack-fruit. 



(b) Compare the flowers of the pine-apple and penguin, 

 and also their fruits. Make drawings, showing the 

 number of flowers that go to an individual fruit in 

 each case. 



