Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 130
water in the bottle until it just touches the point of the acorn, but no more. Fig. 1 shows it. Cut a small piece of card, turn down the edges, and lay it over the mouth of the bottle. Now set the bottle and acorn in the window or on a bracket, and in a few days more or less, depending upon the… … 126 • OUR BOYS. tap root of the oak, but as it cannot escape from its glassprison it goes on coiling itself round and round the inner sideof the glass until a foot or more is crowded in the bottle andsmall roots grow from its sides. In a short time the uppercovering of the acorn will split and a…
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