IV. PROPAGATION AND HABITS 



XVI. HOW A SQUASH PLANT GETS OUT OF 



THE SEED 



99. The culmination of the activities 

 of the plant is the propagation of it- 

 self. To this end the devious life- 

 history, the mechanisms of the 

 flowers, the varieties and pecu- 

 liarities of the fruits, are sub- 

 ordinate. The supreme effort 

 of the plant if one may so 

 speak is its perpetuation. The 

 most important vehicle of this 

 perpetuation, in most higher 

 plants, is the seed. 



100. If one were to plant 

 seeds of a Hubbard or Boston FIG. 73. 

 Marrow squash in loose, warm Squash plant 



. , ., which has 



earth in a pan or box, and brought the 

 were then to care for the par- seed - coats 



Squash plant out of the 



a week old. eel for a week or ten days, ground. 



(79) 



