Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 321
shamrock merely use this only as an anchoringplace, or as a sort of sponge through which to draw up thewater into its leaves ? Surely it cannot derive any nour-ishment from the cotton though it is still growing. I need hardly say that, in common with all your readers,I admire your lovely magazine… … A SO-CALLED TRUE SHAMROCK AS SUPPLIEDBY A FLORIST.(Just white clover.) soil for their food supply. Aerial plants are sonamed because they obtain most of their nourish-ment from air-dust, rain-water and the air Your expression, real Irish shamrock, sug-gests an explanation of what may not be gener-…
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