582 NATURE STUDY. 



wrinkled and it was swelling. The bean wanted to get it wrinkled 

 because it wanted to grow. We had to replant our beans. 



44 May 7, 1897. Our beans are sprouted. The bean's sprout came 

 out at the scar and at the place where it is called the little gate. The 

 direction it came out was straight, then it went down because it was 

 going to be the root. The sprout of the bean is longer than the 

 sprout of the morning-glory." HAROLD McCALL, 



THIRD GRADE. 



THE PARTS OF OUR BEAN PLANT. 



44 The roots of the bean help the plant to grow. We measured the 

 root and it was one inch and a half long. The central root has a lot 

 of roots. The little roots have a lot of little hairlike roots. The little 

 root bends out. My stem is white at the bottom. Then my stem was 

 green at the top. My stem is got a lot of furry stuff on it. The root 

 was big at the top and it was small at the bottom." 



WALTER REYNOLDS. 



44 The bean has three parts. One of the parts is the root and one 

 of the parts is the leaves and one of the parts is the stem. The root 

 is like a thread. The color of the root is yellowish white. The cen- 

 tral root is sharp like a cylinder (cone ?). On the central root I saw 

 ' a great many little roots. We measured the root and it was a inch 

 and one half long. On the root that was near the central root there 

 are a great many new baby roots. On the root there are white spots. 

 The root bends down near the ground. The stem is light green and 

 jlown to the bottom it is whiter green. The stem is shaped like a 

 cylinder. In the center were the cotyledons. The stem is about 

 eight inches long." ANNA CAROLIN, 



SECOND GRADE. 

 ROOT OF BEANS. 



44 John Wells pulled up two plants. They were bean plants. One 

 was bigger than the other. The littlest one pulled up harder than the 

 other did. The littlest one came hard because it had roots on it and 

 the big plant didn't have any roots on it. That is why it came up 

 easier. 



44 The use of the root is to hold the plant firmly in the ground. If 

 it didn't have the root when a hard wind or a hard rain-storm came 

 it would blow it over. We call this root a fibrous root or a spreading 

 root. 



