classed among the vegetables, a term of broader scope than the 

 term fruit. 



To grains and seeds are given four beds. Some of the common 

 cereals are planted here, including wheat, rye, and barley. 

 Among other well-known plants in which the seeds are used for 

 food are buckwheat, beans, lentils, peas, sweet corn, pop corn, 

 and peanuts. To fodder plants, in which the herbage is used, 

 are given two beds. Here will be found such well-known plants 

 as white clover, red clover, crimson clover, alfalfa, spring vetch, 

 winter vetch, timothy, red-top, Kentucky blue grass, and field 



In the collection of shrubs between the beds and the westerly- 

 path are a number of plants which produce foods of various kinds. 

 Here will be found, among the nuts, the chinquapin, the filbert 

 and the American hazel-nut. Among the berries will be found 

 the currant, both red and white, the huckleberry, and the blue- 

 berry. There are other kinds of fruits which are popularly called 

 berries, but which are not. To this class belong the strawberry, 

 the blackberry, and the raspberry, all of which are represented 

 here. A fruit of this kind is known as a compound fruit, for it is 

 made up of several smaller fruits, each the product of a developed 

 ovary in the flower. In the strawberry it is the receptacle on 

 which these ovaries are placed which enlarges and furnishes the 

 luscious flesh of that fruit, the seeds appearing as the small yel- 

 lowish objects on or near the surface. In the blackberry each 

 of these seeds is enclosed in a juicy covering, a collection of these 

 forming the so-called berry. The receptacle in the best black- 

 berries is also enlarged, so that there are two elements of food in 

 such fruits. In the raspberry, as is well known, the receptacle 

 remains on the bush when the fruit is picked, so that only the 

 seeds surrounded by the juicy coverings are used. 



Some of the food plants will be found along the brook. The 

 taro, Colocctsia esculenta, is one of these. It is a member of the 

 family to which our common jack-in-the-pulpit belongs, and like 

 it has a corm. It is this part which is edible and is used in trop- 

 ical regions, including the West Indies, very much as the potato 

 is used in temperate regions. Rice, Orysa sativa, will be found 



