Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
- Henry, Mary Jackson
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ^7 ] mingled with the white fhining branches, and elegant brown pendant twigs of the birch ; fuch is the mountain afh (forbus) in the apple tree. Charles, Do the roots of the mountain afh penetrate into the apple tree—the place they i^grow in feems too high above the ground to admit of their drawing any nou- rifhm.ent from the earth ? Hortenf. I do not exactly know in what manner fuch trees receive their nourifhment; they become, I imagine, parafite plants ; that is, derive their food from the juices of the tree on which they grow, or perhaps live chiefly on the air, as thofe trees muft ne- ceflarily do, which grow out of rocks or walls, where there is not earth fufficient for their fuftenance; iaftl'y, feeds are difperfed by an elaftic force in the feed-veffel, or in fome part belonging to the feed. Stipa (feather grafs), as its feeds arrive at maturity, diflodges them, by twilling the bafe of the long feather by which they are crowned, till it flies from the receptacle, and carries the feed to a confi- derable diflance from the plant: thus are the feeds of geranium and barley difperfed by the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28762514_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
