Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 396
e other plants, and in the stub-bornness with which they hold ground oncegained. The grasses never wholly replace theother flowers, but the number of the latter isgreatly lessened. They are dotted singly orin small groups here and there, like scatteredfigures in a carpet of green. The grassv… … Slowly, but inexorably, dwarf oaks, cherries, and snow-bushesinvade the grassland, and change it into a thicket. from year to year. Bushes and shrubs have adecided advantage over them, however, in be-ing able to begin growth each year at theplace where they stopped the year before.Grasses must die…
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