AGRICULTURAL NATURE STUDY OUTLINES 
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color of anthers, pollen and filaments. Number of pistils. Describe 
the stigma, color, and position with reference to anthers. Do fruit 
blossoms close at night? Any insects about the blossoms? Their 
importance. When petals fall, what is left? What part of the flower 
develops into the fruit ? What happens to the sepals or colyx ? When 
is the best time to spray the blossoms ? Study the buds and blossoms 
of the apple as a type and then compare in all points with blossoms 
of the peach, cherry, prune, pear, plum, apricot. 
Study of the apple .—Shape in different varieties. Are any two 
apples of the same variety exactly alike? General characteristics of 
a particular variety as to shape; color markings of the skin; character 
of skin, whether tough of delicate, etc. Value of the skin. Why care 
in packing for shipping? Notice carefully the stem end and blossom 
end of the apple. What are the withered points at the blossom end 
of the apple ? Position in different varieties of apples ? Cut open an 
apple. Notice texture of the fleshy part. Locate and describe carpels. 
Cut an apple across midway betw r en stem end and blossom end and 
note the five-pointed star. What found here? Describe the apple 
seed. In either portion of the apple thus cut across locate the '‘core 
line.” Identify the bundles of fibers extending through the center 
of the apple from stem to basin. How many? Identify the second 
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