Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
shown in our illustration is twentyyears old and has never had any water exceptduring the rainy season. Moisture, drawn by theroots from underground sources, is retained bythe plant, as the leaves have no evaporatingpores. Whether in parks and gardens or on the plains,wide-spread interest in the… … THE CENTURY-PLANT IN BLOOM. stems, unfolding successively for weeks. A plantblooms but once, for in producing its flowers theold plant slowly but surely dies, but the successionis kept up by off-shoots from the old root. Georgia Torrey Drennan. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 269
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