A Guide in the Study and Improvement of Plants and Seeds for Boys and Girls (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Guide in the Study and Improvement of Plants and Seeds for Boys and GirlsIn schools where botany and allied subjects are taught it is usually the custom to stub wild plants. Such plants possess strihim ¿owers with clearly ddned part -and are well suited to a botanical examination. Plants like oats, on the other hand. Are seldom studied either from a botanical or a biological standpoint. One of the purposes of this pamphlet is to encourage a greater interest in this important plant. The fact that di¿erent oat plants taken from a field may di¿er very considerably in practical valueandmaymarkthestartingpoints ofnewandsuperiorrscesorstrains provides an attractive opportunity to engage in a most interesting and promising line of investigation. Such a study in rural schools, moreover, should help to arouse a new interest in farming and in farm life by dmonstrating, among other things, that more profitable varieties are often obtainable right at our doors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.