In the hole the plantlet should then be suspended so all the roots and a little of the stem beneath the surface will be covered when the soil is replaced.
Often there may be several branches upon the stem, and each of these may be used as a new plantlet provided it has some roots or a rooted part of the main stem attached to it.
The seed germinates, and after a time theplantlet unites with the stock.
Propagated by cuttings; or by simply laying the leaf on moist sand, and at each indentation upon the margin a plantlet will appear.
Deep planting probably as often kills seeds because of the absence of sufficient heat as from the lack of oxygen or the great depth of earth through which the plantlet is unable to push.
This young plantlet is known as the embryo, and to this all actions of the seed are subservient.
Seeds have inside them a tiny plantlet folded and ready to grow when the seed splits to release it.
In all plants with net-veined leaves the young plantlet starts life with two leaves, or cotyledons, as these first leaves are called, and this whole group of plants are thus known as dicotyledons.
When the drawings are made, let them letter alike the corresponding parts, beginning with the plantlet in the seed, and using new letters when a new part is developed.
It is because there is so much food stored in the first two that the plumule can develop before a root is formed, while in the others there is only nourishment sufficient to enable the plantlet to form its roots.
Seeds with the Food stored Seeds with the Food stored outside the plantlet in the embryo itself (Albuminous).
The whole plantlet in the seed is the embryo or germ, whence the sprouting of seeds is called germination.
Indeed the plantlet has attained considerable size before the acid flesh shows any signs of change.
So the plantlet has no hindrance to its growth when spring opens.
Plumule, the bud or first shoot of a germinating plantlet above the cotyledons, 13.
Germination, the development of a plantletfrom the seed, 12.
The Embryo= or Germ, which is the rudimentary plantlet and the final result of blossoming, and its development in germination have been extensively illustrated in Sections II.
Sometimes the seed-leaves themselves come above the ground, as in the mustard-plant, and sometimes they are left empty behind, while the plantlet shoots through them.
Yet in this tinyplantlet lies hid the life of the future plant.
We saw the plantlet buried in it, and learnt how it fed at first on prepared food, but soon began to make living matter for itself out of gases taken from the water through the cells to its stomach - the leaves!
Imagine the tiny primrose plantlet to be made up of cells filled with active living protoplasm, which drinks in starch and other food from the seed-leaves.
Only think how minute this plantlet must be in a primrose, where the whole seed is scarcely larger than a grain of sand!
They are really cells full of protoplasm, with one little dark spot in each of them, which by-and-by is to make our little plantlet that we found in the seed.
This food is all ready for the plantletto use, and it sucks it in, and works itself into a young plant with tiny roots at one end, and a growing shoot, with leaves, at the other.
The roots of the plantlet are now established in the soil and are taking in food which enables the plant to grow.
We must notice, too, that these leaves are much smaller when they are first drawn out of the seed-coat than they are when the plantlet has straightened itself up.
There is another thing about this interesting squash plant which we must not fail to notice, and this is the fact that these first two leaves of the plantletcame out of the seed and did not grow out of the plant itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plantlet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
