CHAPTER IX. 
THE ACTIONS OF PLANTS 
EXEKCISE LIY. 
Root-action and Leaf-action • 
Coyer a tumbler with a piece of card-board, cut 
as seen in Eig. 247. Pull up by the roots a young 
Fig. 247. 
growing plant of any kind, and slip it root downward 
into the hole made in the center of the card-board. 
