PART V 



Studies of the Propagation op Plants 



LXI. HOW A SQUASH PLANT GETS OUT OF 

 THE SEED 



v; 



382. 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. 



383. If one were to plant 

 seeds of a Hubbard or Boston 

 Marrow squash in loose, warm Squash plant 



■ 1 . , . which has 



earth m a pan or box, and brought the 

 were then to care for the par- ^®*^ ■ "°*** 



Squash plant , j, ■, out of tte 



a week old. ccI lor a Week or ten days, ground. 



(316) 



Fie. 329. 



