. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. ly elongates and i earsitself above the water. A piece of a Mangrove brani h isshown natural size in An aerial root is push-ing through the thick root makes a strongcurve when it strikes off thebranch, and then grows di-rectly downward towards thewater. The branch
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. ly elongates and i earsitself above the water. A piece of a Mangrove brani h isshown natural size in An aerial root is push-ing through the thick root makes a strongcurve when it strikes off thebranch, and then grows di-rectly downward towards thewater. The branch from whichit springs may be only a fewinches above the water, or itmay be 10 feet; but the rootpushes on until it inserts it-self in the mud, and theremakes a root system of itsown. These long, lithe, de-scending roots (Fig. 13G(>),swaying in the wind, arechar-actei istic features of the Man-grove swamp. Usually thehanging roots are un-branched, but now and thenthe tip breaks up into shortbranches(Fig 1367) before it reaches the water. Theselong roots remain attached at the upper end, and becometrunks. The Mangrove plantation, therefore, becomesan interwoven mass, and thus marches on into the tidalrivers and the ocean, catching the flotsam and jetsam ofthe sea; and thereby it builds land and extends the. 1363. The hypocotyl enlarging. MANIHOT shores. In the quiet recesses of the Mangrove swampaquatic and amphibious life ftnds refuge. The shell-fishcling to the trunks and at lowtide they are exposed, thusgiving rise to the stories of the early explorers thatoysters grow on trees. All this will recall the accountsof the banyan tree, and there are wild fig trees (thebanyan is a tig) in Florida and southward which behavein a similar way. It seems strange that roots shouldstrike out into the air, but the reader may have observedthe brace roots near the ground on Indian com; andmany plants, as the ivy and trumpet-creeper, climb bymeans of roots.
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