Fruits And Flowers

Great botanical footage from around the 1920s. Great cartoon with comic book-like caption boxes outlining the phases in plant development. Great ear time-lapse studies of flowers blooming. 14:04:00:04 Sprinkler system watering and spraying pesticides on crops, cuts to CU of leave infested with bugs. 14:04:47:24 Time-lapse study of rhododendron flowers blooming. 14:05:29:25 Time-lapse study of rose blooming then wilting. 14:05:53:06 Time-lapse study of the globe thistle flower, CU globe thistle individual florets blooming. 14:06:35:22 Animated drawing of the stages of seed development: root development, leafage, blooming. Pointer in drawing identifies the stamen, the seed container. A bee in the drawing appears. Filament is shown in drawing, pollen grains. 14:12:26:15 Time-lapse study of the pod of a willow-bud. 14:13:55:22 Time-lapse study of a dandelion parachute seed. 14:14:19:10 VS CU under microscope of barbed dandelion root.14:14:55:03 CU goat�s beard flower rotating. 14:15:15:03 Great shot of goat�s beard parachute seed flower or weed floating gracefully in the air, almost ghostlike. 14:16:41:27 CU lime seed under microscope. 14:16:53:16 Great shot of lime seed slowly falling to ground, twirling quickly like a helicopter to brace it�s fall.