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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 94

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leaves will notsprout, but I have had a dry and apparently dead stemproduce young plants after it had been hung on thewall of my library. At intervals along the stalk, littlegreen objects, looking like small cabbages as much asanything, grew out, and produced delicate, colorlessrootlets in the air,… … No. 2—The leaves which were found on the ground were put ina shallow tub and covered with glass. The small plants can beseen sprouting from the edges of all the leaves. 652 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. (May, will form similar cabbages, if it is thrust into a pot, the plumage so covers the…

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