Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 297
Deciduous cypress, Taxodium distichum. lengthen and thicken where food chiefly abounds. In an aridplain of Arizona a vine, in ground parched and dry, goes down-ward so far, and spreads its fibrils so much abroad, as soon to 248 NATURE AS TEACHER … Deciduous cypress, hypotheticaldiagram. show ten times as much growth below the drifting sands as abovethem. In fertile, well-watered soil the same vine descends less than half as far, and yet withmore gain. A bald cypressin a swamp of Florida re-sponds to different sur-roundings with equal…
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