CONTENTS 



PART I 

 The Plant Itself 



' 1IAPTER PACK 



I. The Plant as a Whole 1 



II. The Root 7 



III. The Stein 14 



IV. Propagation by Means of Roots and Stems 19 



V. How the Horticulturist Propagates Plants by Means 



of Roots and Stinis 124 



VI. Food Reservoirs 31 



VII. Winter Buds 36 



VIII. Plants and Sunlight 42 



IX. Struggle for Existence amongst the Branches ... 52 



X. The Forms of Plants 59 



XI. Eow the Plant Takes in the Soil Water ill 



XII. The Making of the Living Matter 7t 



XIII. I >ependen1 Plants 85 



XIV. Leaves and Foliage 90 



XV. Morphology, or the Study of the Forms of Plant 



Members 101 



XV!. Eow Plants Climh . L08 



XVII. Flower- Branches . . . .ill 



XVIII. The Tails of the Flower . . . . 122 



XIX. Fertilization and Pollination L28 



XX. Particular Forme of Flowers 136 



XXI. Fruits 117 



XXII. Dispersal of Seeds 158 



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