Archive image from page 505 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 MANIHOT shores. In the quiet recesses of the Mangrove swamp aquatic and amphibious life tinds refuge. The shell-fish cling to the trunks and at low tide they are exposed, thus giving rise to the stories of the ear
Archive image from page 505 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 MANIHOT shores. In the quiet recesses of the Mangrove swamp aquatic and amphibious life tinds refuge. The shell-fish cling to the trunks and at low tide they are exposed, thus giving rise to the stories of the early explorers that oysters grow on trees. All this will recall the accounts of the l>anyan tree, and there are wild fig trees (the banyan is » ttg) in Florida and southward which behave in a similar way. It seems strange that roots should strike out into the air, but the reader may have observed the 'brace roots ' near the ground on Indian corn; and many plants, as the ivy and trumpet-creeper, climb by means of roots. becoming a agent in th( the ai furtln not ui them 'be fruit arly h:i~, inlosperin. The cotyled iiiiriannn, a woody tube grows from s fr the fruit to the point a. Inside this tube is the plnnnile. The hypocotyl continues to elongate, becoming thick and heavy at its lower end. When (J inches or a foot long, it breaks away from the joint«, cirrying the liberated plumule with it, and strikes root-end down in the mud. Roots push out from the lower end, and the epicotyl rapidly elongates and rears itself above the water. A piece of a Mangrove branch is shown natural size in Fig. An aerial root is push- ing through the thick bark. The root makes a strong curve when it strikes off the branch, and then grows di- rectly downward towards the water. The branch from which it springs may be only a few inches above the water, or it mav be 10 feet; but the root pushes on until it inserts it- self in the mud, and there makes a root system of its own. These long,
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