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FUNDAMENTALS OF AGRICULTURE. 





A TYPICAL OAT PANICLE SPREADING TYPE. 



The Roots. When a grain of oats germinates 

 there is a circle (whorl) of three temporary or seminal 

 roots thrown out from the point where the radicle 

 breaks through the seed oats. These seminal roots 

 are soon replaced by the coronal, or permanent ones, 

 which are thrown out from the nodes. The space 



