Identifier: eyesnoeyes00buck (find matches)
Title: Eyes and no eyes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell and Company, Ltd
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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oot, twoin the vmdeiground stem, two in bulbs. LESSON XV. UNDERGROUND VEGETABLES. Now you will be able to understand how it is thatwe get such nourishing vegetables from the kitchengarden. The bees take honey and pollen from theflowers of plants. We take the sugar and starchand other food, which they store up in their leaves,and steins, and roots. Carrots, Parsnips, and Beet-roots are plants Avhichstore up food in their roots the first year, andflower the second year. So we sow them, and feedthem very w ell the first year, and ^ hen they havelaid up a good store of sweet food, we jjuU them upand eat them before they can flower. If you can get your father to leave one of theseplants in the ground till the second year, you willsee it flower and make its seeds. But a turnip willflower in the first year, if you sow it early in thespring, and leave it all the summer. This is whywe sow our largest stock of turnips in June andJuly so that they may not flower before w^e wantthem in the winter
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UNDERGROUND Vfcut I AtiLtb. A carrot badly-grown and well-grown. Asparagus in the bud, as we eat it, and with itsred seeds as it ripens. Onion cut across to show the scaly leaves iu which foodis stored. UNDERGROUND VEGETABLES. 73 Now I think I hear a little boy saying, She hasforgotten potatoes. No, I have not. But potatoesare not roots, like carrots and turnips. Cut oneopen and you will see some dark spots in it called eyes, Indeed you may see tliem without cuttingif you wash it and look carefully. Each of these eyes is a little bud, with a growingtip, and the beginning of leaves. Noav you knowthat a root cannot bear leaves. It can onlj^ haveone bud on the top where the stem begins. So thepotato cannot be a root. Next time you dig up some potatoes for dinner,look at the roots carefully before j^ou shake off thepotatoes. You will then see that each potato growsat the end of a white stalk, very different from theroots. For a potato is a swelling at the end of astem, which grows undergr

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