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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17064, 24 July 1917, Page 6

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One of the wealthiest of Londoners celebrated his golden wedding a few years ago by distributing £100,000 among various charities.

Cocoanuts are *eeds. and they germinate like other seeds; but the ooooanut has a most extraordinary provision inside for the sustenance of the young plant in the arid regions to which it is native, in the weeks or months that may elapse before its roots can reach moisture. When we get a cocoanut we find it to consist of a thick fibrous rind, a hard s brittle shell, lined with crisp white, oily meat, inside of which is a quantity of watery liquid called the milk At the stalk end of the nut are three " eyes " one of which is a hole through the sheil, closed by a brown coating over the white meat. If we open the shell and examine the meat carefuL'y, we shall find just underneath trm "eye" a bit of the nut about the size of a mustard seed imbedded in the meat but entirely separate from it This is the embryo, from which the future tree will grow. AH the rest of the nut is merely the protection and feeding of this tiny ombryo. Now, according to some original researches by Professors 0. F. Cook and C. B. Doyle, when this embryo germinates it sends forth through the soft "eye" of the shell a shoot and roots. These burrow their way into the'fibrous coating until the leaf shoot finds its way to the surface, the roots meanwhile spreading in the fibro! But the lower end of the embryo grows inside the and produces n largo bulbous mass ftf spongy tissuo, pore white in colour, with many wrinkles on its surface. All through this are fine vessels, like veins! which converge at the neck and communicate with the growing plant. This bulbous mass, called a cotyledon, absorbs and digests the moat of the nut, sucks up the milk, and sends the digested product to feed the seedling' The hollow irside the cocoanut is really a sort of stomach, and the process that on within it is- a real digestion. These inner nuts, or cotyledons are taken out and dried by the inhabitants of the west coast of Mexico and sold under the name of " manzanas do coco." or cocoanut apples. _ This procoss of germination and growth inside the husk may continue for months without any external contact, and the loaves often attain considerable size before the roots havo extended beyond the husk. •

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