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BOTANY;

OR THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.

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HOME GULTURE TEST EXERCISES.

1. Of what does Botany treat?

2. What do we mean by the scientific or botanical name of a plant? 3. What is meant by Bioplasm? By Protoplasm?

4. What is a vegetable cell?

5. What is the peculiarity of the living matter in a vegetable cell? 6. The Vegetable Kingdom is divided into what two great sub-kingdoms?

7. Under how many classifications, types or plans of structure, have botanists arranged the multitude of plants which clothe the earth and dwell in the sea?

8. Where may Protophytes (one-celled) or the simplest form of plants be found?

9. Into how many classes may Thallogens be divided?

10. Of what family are Stoneworts, Ferns and Mosses?

11. Name some of the most important families which grow outward from their interior?

12. Which is the most important family that grows from the outside? 13. How many varieties of the following well-known trees are found in the United States: 1, Oak; 2, Pine; 3, Birch; 4, Willows; 5, Poplar; 6, Alder; 7, Maple; 8, Magnolias; and 9, Elm. 14. How and why do plants grow; what were they made for, and what do they do?

15. How is the work divided which is performed by plants?

16. How do plants resemble animals?

17. What is the principal difference between animals and plants?

18. What conditions are necessary for the life of plants?

19. What are the plant's organs of vegetation?

20. Of what use is the flower of a plant?

21. Of how many and what parts is a flower composed? 22. What is the calyx and what the corolla of a blossom? 23. Of how many and what parts is a stamen composed ? 24. Of how many and what parts is the pistil composed?

25. What parts of a flower wither after blossoming, and what part remains?

26. How is the seed of a plant produced, and where is the germ?

27. How does a germ sprout, and on what is it first nourished?

28. How long do seeds contain the germ of life?

29. In how many and what ways do plants multiply? 30. What is a bud?

31. How are plants propagated by buds?

32. What do we mean by the tissues of plants?

33. What are the cellular tissues of a plant?

34. Describe what is called the sleep of plants?

35. In what two ways do plants obtain their food?

36. Do plants ever draw nourishment from animal substances?

37. What do we mean by the transpiration of a plant?

38. Of what is the bloom on grapes composed?

39. What are the use of hairs on plants?

40. Of what use are hairs on plants that secrete a resinous, sugary or

odorous fluid?

41. Do sticky stems ever retain insects which the plant absorbs as food? 42. Why cannot crops which are periodically cut and taken away, be grown on the same ground year after year?

43. Into how many and what classes are herbs divided?

44. Describe Annuals, and give illustrations?

45. Describe Biennials, and mention a few?

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46. Of what class are Perennials, and name the family which is most im47. What may be said of the characteristics of the flora in different parts of the earth?

48. In tropical regions, where is the zone of the palms and bananas? 49. Where is the zone of evergreen trees and where those of deciduous foliage?

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50. How do the zones of temperate climes compare with those of the 51. In the temperate region where is the zone of fruit trees?

52. Where is the zone of the apple and grape?

53. What plants grow in the snow regions?