Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 720
is so firmly anchored to thebottom that the lifting power of the water, andthe pull of the waves, cannot dislodge it. From the rootstock grow tufts of smaller roots,that look like binder twine. About a hundred of these twine-like roots, from a few inches to morethan two feet long, grow from a foot… … ROOTSTOCK OF THE YELLOW WATER-LILY. the collective strength of the twine-roots, thateach foot of the creeping stock can resist a pullof about iooo pounds. Sometimes, in years of very low water, the soilof the lake bottom freezes solid, and the highwater of spring floats the frozen mud in…
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