CA 2012 USDA Approved NE Materials Describes how raspberries, peanuts, corn, and other foods are produced as various plants flower, create seeds, and finally bear fruit. In the orchard a honey bee buzzes. Its legs brush pollen inside a fragrant pink flower:
A small green fruit begins to grow and grow and grow....
Peaches and peas and even peanuts -- they all begin with a single flower: How? Open this book and find out! The mystery, beauty, and science of how a flower becomes fruit are captured in six gatefolds that show how apple, raspberries, pumpkin and other trees and vines blossom, are pollinated, and eventually bear fruit. Includes instructions so readers can grow their own plants. Full color. |