Exercises on Lesson VI.
1. Make sketches of a soaked bean and of a soaked maize seed. 2. Place a few beans (or peas) and a few maize (or wheat) seeds in a box of damp sawdust. Water regularly. After a week dig up a seed of each and draw them. 3. Dig up a seed of each at intervals of two weeks, three weeks, and four weeks; draw and compare them. 4. Sow in a box of sawdust a few of each of the following—date stones, orange pips, walnuts, chestnuts. Keep the box in a warm place, and watch how these seeds grow.