| 单词 | rootlet |
| 例句 | I wouldn’t trade a single rootlet for any of it. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Rambling vine that climbs 25–30 ft. by clinging aerial rootlets. Hydrangea Planting Guide 2011-03-14T17:50:04.633Z “Dry-aged beef ends broth” features “malt rootlets, mystery vegetables and peels” and “cow corn crackers.” Dan Barber Rescues Discarded Food with WastED at Blue Hill 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z And if the vines are cut off with clippers, some of the fuzzy rootlets will surely remain. What is the best way to remove ivy from around a chimney? 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Real’ L.A. had its thick, coiled root downtown, and on the east, little underground rootlets; obscure Mexican restaurants. Carolyn See, Author of ‘Golden Days,’ Dies at 82 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Leave rootlets embedded in the mortar or bricks until they dry up and turn dark, a process that the association says should take two or three weeks — not years. What is the best way to remove ivy from around a chimney? 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z I believe it was the last, deepest rootlet of my denial, expelled. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Their rootlets are constantly dying, depositing carbon underground, where it’s less likely to go airborne. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z From the cores, the scientists also extracted eDNA—DNA lingering in the soil from, for example, plant leaves, rootlets, animal feces, urine, or even skin cells. Ancient DNA suggests the first Americans sidestepped the glaciers 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Plant development, from tentative rootlets to mature fruit, with plenty of knots in between, becomes a metaphor for Jahren's own progress in the challenging landscape of academia. Autobiography: A lab of one's own : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z His analysis of the rock surrounding the fossils suggests to him the soil of dry land, and his analysis of cross sections of these fossils to him suggests lichen rootlets and biological soil crusts. Were Weirdo Ediacarans Really Lichens, Fungi, and Slime Molds? 2012-12-13T21:15:00.267Z Stems dorsally compressed, with rootlets at the base and often producing somewhat leafless runners. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The long radishes broke it up and drew nutrients toward the surface; tall grasses like sorghum produced numerous fine rootlets, adding organic material to the land; legumes harbored bacteria that put nitrogen into the soil. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z As the night went on the rain increased, one of the soft, steady, soaking rains that penetrate to the depths of the sun-baked earth, find the withered rootlets, and heal and revivify. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, a‰rial rootlets, a‰rial plants. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It sends out tiny rootlets at the joints of the sprays, and these grow readily. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A common woody vine, in low or rich grounds, climbing extensively, sometimes by rootlets as well as by its disk-bearing tendrils, blossoming in July, ripening its small blackish berries in October. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The plant must be lifted with as little injury to its rootlets as possible, and carefully set into the hole, the soil being filled in round it, and carefully pressed close by the hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Correlations have also been observed between the development in length and surface of the rootlets themselves. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z The material used is mud, with the addition of horsehair or slender fibrous rootlets, which make the structure harder and prevent it from cracking. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z It is quite diverse in its habit, sometimes appearing as an erect shrub, and again climbing trees or rock surfaces, by means of small aerial rootlets, to a considerable height. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Plant-body a thallus, dichotomous or subpalmately branching, usually innovating from the apex or beneath it, more or less thickened in the middle, and bearing numerous rootlets beneath and usually colored or imbricating scales. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Take the fresh root stalks and rootlets, gathered in spring on the first appearance of the flowers, and chop and pound them to a pulp, and weigh. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z But the little rootlets, In the earth below, Open wide their tiny mouths Where the rain-drops flow; And the thirsty grasses Soon grow fresh and green, With the pretty daisies Springing up between. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z The nest is made of dry grass and rootlets attached to the rushes in moist ground, and placed close to or resting on the surface. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z For thou art nurtured from the treasure-veins Of this fair land; thy golden rootlets sup Her sands of gold—of gold thy petals spun. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Thallus large, thin, soft, with a slight costa, dichotomous, usually with scattered hair-like rootlets beneath; gemmæ none. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The spokesman of the donors held it in his hand while making his speech, and the representative of the recipients tore off a rootlet or two while acknowledging the gift. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Twigs, leaves, vine tendrils, and bits of bark form its walls, and the speckled, greenish blue eggs within are usually laid upon a lining of fine black rootlets. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z To tell the truth, I long to steep myself in America again and let the broken rootlets make new adhesions to the native soil. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The rootlets of the grasses get a steady supply of food from the decaying surfaces of these pebbles scattered through the pastures, and then pass it on to the cows. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Seeds transversely winged.—Woody, with compound leaves, climbing by aerial rootlets. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z From the spore sprang amber-coloured rootlets, fixing it firmly to a rock. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Through the opening on one side, that was about three inches high, she could see the lining of fine black rootlets, just like the one she had watched the bird snap off and carry away. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The acorn got wet and burst, and clung to the ground with his crooked rootlet, and sent up a sprout. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z But not only the rootlets sunk in the water, but also the roots from which they are suspended, partake of the waters of the fountains. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z Frond 7–11-nerved or more; rootlets several, with axile vascular tissue. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z These fresh rootlets clothed with the velvety root hairs are new, just as the shoots are new that bear the leaves on the ends of the branches. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The stocks, if not clean, should be washed, and one hand trims off the side rootlets. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The seeds swell, and let out rootlets; the rootlets take hold of the ground; old roots send up new shoots, and the trees and the grass begin to grow. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z We are like seedlings dropped on some great rock, which send their rootlets down the hard stone and are stunted till they reach the rich leaf-mould at its base. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z But these rootlets have faith, and faith moves mountains. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Only the season's rootlets and leafy shoots are soft and alive and capable of lengthening by cell division. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z If on the contrary the air be warm and the ground cold, the buds are often stimulated to burst forth, before the rootlets can have started. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Beyerinck has shown that galls of Salix purpurea, planted in moist earth, bear rootlets identical with those of the normal plant. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z It is spreading and gaining in depth through a thousand underground rootlets. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z The swirling water went round and round under the fall, with lines of white bubbles rising, and quivering masses of yellowish foam ledged on the red rootlets under the bank and against the flags. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The banyan tree of India is famous, striking its aërial rootlets downward until they reach the ground and take root, and thus help support the giant, horizontal limbs. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Lilies must grow up from below, Where the strong rootlets are twining about; Goodness and honesty ever must flow From the heart-centres—to blossom without. City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z These sprouts produce abundant rootlets while still attached to the parent tuber, and by pulling them with care, great numbers of young plants can be obtained. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z If you turn it up, you see rootlets, like the legs of a caterpillar, by which it attaches itself to the ground, and which it seems to lose when transplanted to America. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The rootlets of the grass held tight, when Mark tried to lift the spadeful he had dug, so that he could not tear them off. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z If we examine it from time to time, we find it sending down rootlets into the earth, and stems and leaves upward into the air. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Thirty-five to fifty-five days later, the young plants, now fully developed and possessed of a thick network of rootlets, are replanted in the open ground. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z The pairs of arteries supply viscera developed behind the peritoneum, and the veins corresponding to them are rootlets of the inferior vena cava. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Suppose, for instance, the plasma of the rootlets has an osmotic pressure of six atmospheres, corresponding to that of a 9 per cent. solution of sugar. The Mechanism of Life Middle portion of the young one, much magnified, showing below, partly among the rootlets, the antheridia or fertilizing organs, and above, near the notch, three pistillidia to be fertilized. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools And great care must be taken not to injure the little white, fibrous rootlets, which mean flowering strength for the coming season. Roses and Rose Growing Invertase is also present in moulds and other microorganisms; and in the buds, leaves, flowers, and rootlets of those higher order plants which store their carbohydrate reserves in the form of sucrose. The Chemistry of Plant Life These rootlets are very strong, as you will find if you try to pull, as I did once, a trumpet-creeper out of a grape-vine. Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 That is to say, a tree whose rootlets contain a solution of sugar of 9 per cent. concentration, or its equivalent, can grow to a height of 62 metres. The Mechanism of Life The whole surface of a root absorbs moisture from the soil while fresh and new; and the newer roots and rootlets are, the more freely do they imbibe. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The short stem-like base of the plant terminates in fiber-like rootlets, creeping under the soil and branching, thus attaching large clusters of the young plants together. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Salts of the heavy metals are especially toxic to rootlets of plants. The Chemistry of Plant Life A wreath of rootlets adorned the neck, but the most conspicuous features were the stork-like legs that terminated in roots with radiations like encrinital stems. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar As these roots increased, they sent out side rootlets, which, still running on the face of the wall, by and by came in contact with another of the primary roots. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The under face bears copious rootlets; in the substance of the upper face are the spore-cases, their pointed tips merely projecting: there they burst open, and discharge their spores. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The animals on Xenon are immune from them, but when they land on a man, they send out tiny rootlets that are like minute hairs. The Moralist But when the surface is permitted to remain hard and compact, baked under the sun or trodden under foot, the delicate rootlets are unable to penetrate the unfriendly mass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 I also saw the redoubtable blocus, an animal resembling a jerboa, or kangaroo, whose only trace of plant existence was a few rootlets growing out of its back. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Yet, on examination, I saw that the leaves did not adhere at all; the only support was that of the tiny rootlets which proceeded laterally from each stem, which the leaves concealed. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The roots also are affected, and instead of growing considerably in length, branch repeatedly and give rise to little tufts of rootlets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Where the ground had been bare around his cooking spot, he saw empty darkness, star-studded, rimmed by a tangled webwork of bare rootlets. Freudian Slip So on these nations had been writ, in brief, The deep-burned liturgy of hardened strife, And through the furnace of their pungent grief, They learn to plant the rootlets of their life. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation This was the seat of the life of the tree, which sent its trunk and crown heavenwards and its roots and rootlets earthwards. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Several large stumps projected above the clay in a vertical direction, and sent roots and rootlets into the soil in all directions and to considerable distances. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras "No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown," 10 Prayed the Tree, while he trembled from rootlet to crown. Graded Poetry: Third Year Then longer, writhing roots of trees and shrubs, sprouting thickets of hair-thin rootlets. Freudian Slip In this soil workshop, too, live and labor certain minute organisms that make it their business to enrich the soil by helping the rootlets to assimilate the nitrogen of the air. The Apple A cart passed at a little distance, laden with red mangolds, fresh from the pit in which they had been stored; the roots had grown out a trifle, and the rootlets were mauve. The Hills and the Vale Then he laid the paddles in the boat, fastening them with rootlets to the three thwarts. A Daughter of the Forest Shift on young stock, keeping the plants well down in the pots as they throw out fresh rootlets from the stem. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house In these machines, they were thoroughly cleansed, scraped, and freed from tops, rootlets and imperfections. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century There are fibers and rootlets of Nan all through me, and the funny part of it is I love to feel them there. Old Crow He says they also made dishes of bark, both large and small, sewing them so nicely with slender rootlets of fir that they retained water. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 From a tiny seed 'tis spreading In this ground so rich and fertile, Which it permeates completely With its thousand fibrous rootlets. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Then take the tree out with a ball of earth, remove the soil all round the ball with a pointed stick, shorten the rootlets around, and cut any coarse roots away with sharp pruning scissors. The Book of Pears and Plums The same rootlets laid bare to the frost of a single October night die. Old Plymouth Trails As if some plant were drawing quiet rootlets From out my heart, to take wing after her, And air were entering all the empty sockets! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature It is very flat and loosely made of twigs and fine bark strips and lined with rootlets and fibers of inner bark. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 From all accounts the nests of this species are elegantly and compactly made, consisting of a densely woven mass of spruce twigs, soft vegetable down, rootlets, and fine shreds of bark. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 Spread the roots and rootlets carefully out with an upward rather than a downward tendency. The Book of Pears and Plums The rootlets of small, perennial herbs may be encased in ice to their tips, but they do not freeze. Old Plymouth Trails Nest—Of sticks, lined with moss, rootlets, etc., in a bush or tree over the water. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1897 She had given a very pretty and unique effect to the nest by a border of fine dark rootlets skillfully woven together. Ways of Nature It is bulky, ragged, and loose, but well capped and brimmed, consisting of twigs, grasses, rootlets, bits of vegetable down, and wool firmly matted together, and lined with feathers, hair, etc. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 Darwin says those rootlets behave as if they had minute brains in their extremities. Under the Maples Sometimes these rootlets reduce themselves to one or more rounded protuberances towards the base of the sporangia-bearing threads. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Their nests are made entirely of twigs and rootlets, and eggs may be found from early in April until the latter part of September, as they often raise two or three broods a season. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. There is something pathetically human in the struggle plants make to reach the light; tiny rootlets have been known to pierce rocks in their stern determination to reach the light that their soul craves. In Times Like These Nest—Compact and symmetrical, of fine grasses, rootlets and moss, thickly covered with lichens, saddled on a limb, twenty to forty feet up. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 The rootlets continue their activity in the fall, after the leaves have fallen, and thus gorge the tree with fluid against the needs of the spring. Under the Maples The material used is mud, with the addition of horse hair or slender fibrous rootlets, which make the structure harder and prevent it from cracking. The Industries of Animals They build fairly compact nests of twigs, rootlets and weeds, these being placed in bushes at a low elevation. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The pea and its kindred harbor on their rootlets certain tiny lodgers; the tenants pay a liberal rent in the form of nitrogen compounds, a striking interlacement of interests! Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Nest—Of grasses, rootlets, and moss, lined with finer grasses and feathers, on the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 A cloud of invisible vapor rises from the8 top of every tree and a thousand invisible rills enter it through its myriad hairlike rootlets. Under the Maples Technically, the first swelling on the young tender rootlets of the vine is called a nodosity. Manual of American Grape-Growing In their breeding range, they nest at low elevations in stunted pines or spruces, making their nests of rootlets and lichens, lined with feathers. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Every hanging rootlet of the great banyan tree is hung with horrors—all dead, most mercifully, but horrible still. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Nest—Of grasses, moss, and rootlets, lined with fine grasses and long hairs, on or near the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 The tree absorbs its earth materials through the minute hairs on its rootlets, called fibrillæ, and the animal body absorbs its nutriment through analogous organs in the intestines, called lacteals. Under the Maples The small green plant on the table was with great effort extending a pair of tiny rootlets and was trying to use them to walk! Such Blooming Talk Nest in a white pine, 38 feet from the ground on a limb 4 feet from the trunk; composed of fine rootlets and hair, resembling the nest of a Chipping Sparrow. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Sixty years afterwards look again, and every rootlet has grown a tree, each again sending rootlets down; and so the system spreads. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Nest—Compact and symmetrical, of weed-stocks, grasses, and moss, lined with plant down, fine grasses, and rootlets, generally at the end of a branch fifteen to twenty-five feet from the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 The rootlets absorb the water charged with mineral salts from the soil, and the leaves absorb the sunbeams from the air. Under the Maples Several more rootlets abruptly appeared, and now the plant balanced itself easily on the bare table. Such Blooming Talk The nests are made of rootlets, shreds of bark, pine needles, etc., lined with fine grasses or hair. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The plant is sessile and quite strongly rooted with fine rootlets. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth It is still establishing its rootlets, like young corn, instead of growing. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The tree touches the inorganic world at the two finest points of its structure—the rootlets and the leaves. Under the Maples It bravely sent forth leaves, while at the base little white rootlets appeared. Getting Acquainted with the Trees Nest 30 feet up in a pine; made of pine needles and rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Every growing shoot of a great tree is continually describing small ellipses; the tip of every rootlet endeavours to do the same. Life of Charles Darwin Frequently, perhaps more often than not, the ground is covered with grass, above all with couch-grass, whose tenacious rootlets form an inextricable network below the surface. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The tree's life is in the fine hairlike rootlets that spring from the roots. Under the Maples The larvæ operate by consuming the rootlets of young plants, and by excoriating the surface and eating into the rind of older ones, or even penetrating into the interior of the root. The Cauliflower They nest on the ground in, or on the edges of swampy places, lining the hollow with grasses and rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. No structure in plants appears more wonderful, as Darwin describes it, than the tip of the rootlet of a seedling. Life of Charles Darwin These particles, however, must be rendered very minute before they become available for the plant, which absorbs them by means of its rootlets. Manures and the principles of manuring The wheat rootlets select more silica to make the stalk; the pea rootlets select more lime: the pea does not need the silica. Under the Maples She could at least count on their affection, and that sympathy which grows out of a certain entanglement of the rootlets of memory and consciousness, out of common interest and long and intimate association. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York They are woodland birds exclusively and nest on the ground, arching the top over with rootlets or leaves, the nest proper being made of grasses and leaf skeletons. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. It is impressed by and transmits influences of pressure, injury, moisture, light, and gravity to other parts, and determines the course pursued by the rootlet in penetrating the ground. Life of Charles Darwin He makes it of twigs and rootlets, with several thicknesses of leaves. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 The vital activity of the tree goes on at three points—in the leaves, in the rootlets, and in the cambium layer. Under the Maples Root thick, irregular, rough, formed by the union of several small rootlets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines They nest in such localities in their breeding range, placing their nests among the cavities of rootlets and stumps, the nest being made of moss, leaves and rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The tip of the rootlet is thus enabled to penetrate the ground, and it is proved to be more sensitive than the most delicate tendril. Life of Charles Darwin It is neatly lined with fine rootlets and you will always find it on or near the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 This stream of water is truly its life current; it enters at the rootlets under the ground and escapes at the top through the leaves by a process called transpiration. Under the Maples These millions of rootlets give a velvety appearance to the alimentary canal, like a nap or downy surface. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis The nests, too, are similar but that of the Thrasher is usually more bulky; besides building in bushes they frequently nest on the ground, lining the hollow under some bush with fine rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. But, once thereon reset, ’tis like a tree, Sap-swollen in spring-time: bonds may not restrain; Nor weight repress; its rootlets rend in twain Dead stones and walls and rocks resistlessly. Life of Charles Darwin Nest—Bulky, of twigs and rootlets, firmly wrapped with leaves, on or near the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 When you see those little white rootlets beginning to grow like thin macaroni, white, most of them, that's a sign that you had better get busy grafting. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 Intestinal rootlets of the small intestines, like vegetal rootlets, demand a certain amount of normal fluid and solid substance, free from noxious gas. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis Their nests are made of sticks and grass, lined with rootlets, and the three or four eggs are bluish green with spots of russet brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Sumichrast dug a little hole round one of the plants, and showed to his wondering pupil that the fragment of the stem was already provided with small rootlets. Adventures of a Young Naturalist Nest—Of small twigs, lined with bark, hair, or rootlets, placed within twenty feet of the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 It is made of leaves, rootlets and fine twigs woven together with an inner wall of mud, and lined with fine rootlets. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 Millions on millions of these glands, lacteals and follicles in the stomach and small intestines, are destroyed like the rootlets of a plant or tree in unwholesome soil. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis Nest of sticks and rootlets in a grease-wood bush 4 feet from the ground. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. There were no fine fibers or rootlets here; only great beams and buttresses, bridges and up-ended spirals, grown together or spreading wide apart. Edge of the Jungle The nest, composed of dry rootlets laid very closely in rings, is usually found in an oak sapling about ten feet from the ground. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 Every breeze wafts gaseous nutriment to their expanded leaves, and their rootlets ramify throughout the soil in search of appropriate mineral aliment. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Green flame thrust out tiny rootlets that crawled over it, outlining it in garish light. Hunters Out of Space They nest on the ground in hollows under banks or crevices about roots of trees or fallen stumps, making a large, loosely constructed pile of weeds and trash, hollowed and lined with rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. The Pursuit of God The descent of matter must have been frequent when the drift was unbound by the rootlets which hold it together now. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Tinospora cordifolia.—A climbing plant, so tenacious of life that when the stem is cut across or broken, a rootlet is speedily sent down from above, which continues to grow until it reaches the ground. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Yet that weak and puny thing grows on unobserved, striking its rootlets farther into the crevice of the rock. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg These birds, which are practically identical with the preceding, build their nests at low elevations in trees, usually evergreens when present, making them of twigs, moss and rootlets, lined with fine grasses. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. It had a clean round bulb without any rootlets and left a smooth neat hole in the ground, in which, according to promise, I laid the acorn, and covered it in with earth. The Five Jars This consists of pieces of rotten wood through which had grown the rootlets of plants. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Thus enriched, the sap goes back through the tree, building it up until the tiniest rootlets are as much nourished by the leaves as the latter are fed by the roots. A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies The plants, in a dry time send their rootlets throughout the soil, and flourish in the moisture thus stored up for their time of need. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Nest of green moss and rootlets, in a spruce, 5 feet from the ground. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Its rootlets are always drinking the nutritious waters of grace. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Thin films of interlacing rootlets often formed a delicate network over the whole inner surface of the bowl. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 It is impossible to uproot customs of immemorial antiquity without leaving some rootlets behind. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska We all know that Indian corn, in a dry soil, sends down its rootlets two feet or more, as well as most of the grasses. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The nests are built of rootlets, grasses, weeds and trash of all kinds, such as paper, rags, string, etc. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. It may be found upon examination that the blue root aphis is at work, clinging in clusters to the rootlets. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse This consists almost wholly of plant rootlets and contains a very slight amount of sand. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 As regards plants generated from cuttings ... that part of a branch where it was cut from a tree is placed in the earth and there rootlets are sent out. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It has been said by some that the rootlets of mangold will reach the drains under them; and, particularly, where the drains contain most water in rapid motion. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Nest 10 feet from the ground in an apple tree; made of fibres, string, rootlets and weeds, lined with horse hair. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Never attempt to pull the seedlings from the soil in the flat, as the little rootlets are very easily broken off. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse The plant rootlets in most cases followed the large ducts that run lengthwise through the pieces of wood and take up the greater part of the space. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 The face of the moorland was generally black, sometimes broken by borders of vivid green about the pools, and along the path edges by the little rosy rootlets of the plant called Venus's Flytrap. Patsy The Leek is a hardy biennial, and produces an oblong, tunicated bulb; from the base of which, rootlets are put forth in great numbers. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Like the others, their nests are made of sticks plastered together with mud and lined with weeds and rootlets. 478d. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The nest is a carelessly made, bulky affair, composed of rootlets, strips of bark, twigs, leaves, and other material. Bird Day; How to prepare for it This consists almost entirely of plant rootlets and sand. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Fiber: any fine, slender thread or threadlike substance, as the rootlets of plants or the lint of cotton. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Plant food must be in solution and in the form of a film moisture surrounding the smallest soil particles in order to be available to the fine plant rootlets which seek it. Apple Growing They build shallow structures of small sticks and weeds lined with fine rootlets and placed at low elevations in bushes or scrubby trees. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The nest is bulky, composed of twigs, rootlets, dead leaves, strips of bark, etc. Bird Day; How to prepare for it It is fastened to the ground by fine, colorless hairs, or rootlets. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses When the plants are numerous, these roots and rootlets fill the soil. Clovers and How to Grow Them It is a great soil improver because of its ability to feed and thrive on soils too poor for other crops, due to its numerous shallow feeding rootlets. Apple Growing They build generally in tangled thickets or low bushes, placing their nests at a low elevation and making them of twigs, weeds, moss, etc., lined with fine rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Such spreading of rootlets far and wide, Such whispering to and fro; And, "Are you ready?" the Snowdrop asked, "'Tis time to start, you know." Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two To understand the early structure of the roots, the smallest rootlets obtainable should be selected. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses The rootlets would not then be able to penetrate the soil with sufficient ease to find enough food and moisture to properly nourish them. Clovers and How to Grow Them Plant food is taken up by the minute tree rootlets in solution and carried to the leaves where it is elaborated and then returned for use to the growing tissues of the tree. Apple Growing They breed in the mountainous portions of their range, placing their flat nests of sticks and rootlets in low trees or bushes. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Many of the pine nuts send down a rather slender root at first without many side rootlets, and when the frost opens the ground in the spring the young trees are thrown out and lost. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 These rootlets, like the rest of the filament, are undivided by walls. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses From these laterals many rootlets penetrate through the soil. Clovers and How to Grow Them The Arabis is easily propagated by slips or rootlets, which should be taken after flowering. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. They build in conifers making their nests of small twigs and rootlets, lined with fine grasses and lichens. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Nut trees form new rootlets slowly the first summer and require special care. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 The structure of the root is best studied in the seedling plant, or in a rootlet of an older one. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses It also fills the soil with an abundance of roots and rootlets. Clovers and How to Grow Them The procumbent stems will, in strong patches, be found to supply rootlets in abundance. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Nest made of twigs and rootlets and lined with horse hair. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. She is blind, I say, because she is all eyes, and sees through the buds of her trees and the rootlets of her plants as well as by the optic nerves in her animals. The Last Harvest They branch somewhat as the roots of a tree and form in many instances a complex network of tiny rootlets. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools The power which these have to multiply by means of rootlets from the incumbent stems, which fasten into the soil. Clovers and How to Grow Them It will grow and flower freely in any soil, but the aspect should be sunny; it is easily increased by division or rootlets. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Their nests are made of rootlets and grasses and are lined with horse hair. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Soon the strong-rooted bushes and trees win a foothold, and by sending their rootlets, which are at first small but rapidly enlarge, into the crevices, they hasten the disruption of the stones. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography On forest lands much of the ground is deep with tangled rootlets and fibres mixed in with the mould, and a fire may be smouldering down underneath, where you cannot see it. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Side passages ran out from this corridor like rootlets from a parent root, and small parties of mermen broke from the regiment to follow certain ones, leaving without orders or farewells. Star Born The pear-shaped puff-ball has little fibrous rootlets, and the plants grow in crowds on decaying trees. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Nest in a willow 4 feet from the ground; made of fine rootlets and grass, lined with feathers. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Thus the mineral matter which is fit for plant food is constantly set in motion, and in its movement passes the rootlets of the plants. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Then he saw that the round, glistening seeming snake was fastened to the ground by rootlets. Operation: Outer Space On the way they have probably encountered the rootlets of my little plantation. Social Life in the Insect World Slight nest of small rootlets and fine grass placed under a tuft of grass. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The projecting corners would also, relatively to the other parts, have been embraced by a larger number of living rootlets; and these have the power of even attacking marble, as Sachs has shown. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. It is neatly placed in the middle of the bush about a foot from the ground, made of medium grasses and rootlets and lined with finer grasses and horsehair. Some Summer Days in Iowa The keys of the soft maple will soon be ready to fall and send out rootlets, and the winged seeds of the white elm already lie thickly beneath the leafing branches. Some Spring Days in Iowa This is hardly probable, for a few rootlets were pressed against the bottom of the glass, but none of my prisoners were feeding. Social Life in the Insect World Like the eastern Towhee, they nest on the ground under the protection of overhanging bushes, the nests being made of strips of bark and grasses and lined with fine rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Such clean cuts will send out new rootlets to replace the lost ones. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin "What are these things, anyway?" demanded Scott, ramming down the moist earth around a fragile rootlet from which trailed a green leaf or two. The Danger Mark How the tiny rootlets scurry through the soil—faithful children gathering food to send up to their mother. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 It sent downward a rootlet to get soil and water, and upward it shot a stem to which the first pair of leaves was attached. Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information They place their nests in bushes at low elevations from the ground and sometimes on the ground; they are made of twigs, strips of bark, weeds and coarse grasses, lined with fine rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. To these rootlets she fastened—gummed would be a more correct word—her pellet of wasp-paper, in the form of a thin layer, and hurried away, singing, for more. The Way of the Wild By the way, I always use wire hairpins to hold down creeping rootstocks of every kind; it keeps them from springing up and drying before the rootlets have a chance to grasp the soil. The Garden, You, and I With what uproar and clang of iron hammers would stones be crushed that are dissolved noiselessly by the rootlets and recomposed in stems and boughs! The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service The rootlets in the dark depths of soil, the foliage in the sunlit air, begin now their common joint labor of constructing a majestic oak. Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information Nest of fine grasses, lined with rootlets; 4 feet from ground in a mesquite tree. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A plant requires certain chemical elements for its growth and all of these must be within reach of its rootlets, for it will accept no substitutes. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries When a seed is planted its first effort is to send a rootlet down into the soil. The First Book of Farming When the seed first thrust its rootlets down into the soil and its plumule up to the sunshine it entered upon a long career. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service What is the use of the roots, and especially of the rootlets, if they are not the mouths and supply-tubes of the plants? Science in Arcady Nest of twigs and rootlets in small apple tree in woods; nest very frail, eggs showing through the bottom. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The bulbs are exceedingly small in proportion to the flowers, and the rootlets are so fragile that potting on is to be avoided. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition They have numerous branches and rootlets, which fill all parts of the upper soil. The First Book of Farming Nursery-grown trees possess a well-developed root system with numerous fibrous rootlets, a straight stem, a symmetrical crown, and a well-defined leader. Studies of Trees Myriads of rootlets search the surrounding country for elements it needs for making bark, wood, leaf, flower, and seed. Among the Forces Nest of roots, leaves and snake skin, lined with fine rootlets, 3 feet from the ground in a small oak bush. 597a. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. At maturity the eggs crack open, and the worms on emerging bore into the most tender rootlets, and there lay their eggs. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition When the new tree begins to put out tender rootlets a child brushing against it or 'inspecting' it too closely will break them off and it dies. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Its roots, where there is no ball of soil around them, should be carefully spread out and good soil should be worked in carefully with the fingers among the fine rootlets. Studies of Trees But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away? Among the Forces The nests are made of weeds, grasses, leaves and rootlets, lined with fine grass, and the three to five eggs are bluish white. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The rootlets do not perish during the season of rest, and this fact clearly indicates that the bulbs should not remain out of ground for a day longer than is necessary. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The rootlets seize the sand and turn it to soil, to woody fibre, leafy verdure, blooming flowers, and delicious fruit. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work The lymphatics seem to spring from the parts in which they are found, like the rootlets of a plant in the soil. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration There were, including seventy nodal roots, more than eighty thousand feet of roots and rootlets. Among the Forces Nest on low limb of an oak, 4 feet above ground; of weeds and rootlets and very frail. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. These eggs speedily hatch inside the plant and new eelworms are produced, which traverse the rootlets in every direction. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition From each of these pits there proceeds, in perfect examples, a long cylindrical rootlet; but in many cases these have altogether disappeared. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science The adjacent land, to which virgin forest top soil had been applied, had no such growth of new rootlets, nor had any of the adjacent land, to which no top dressings had been applied. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Little rootlets seize upon it and it goes coursing in the veins of plants. Among the Forces Their nests are made of rootlets, grass and moss, and situated in trees usually at a low elevation. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The first he says often come off, and the second embarrass the ferret and sometimes catch in projecting rootlets and hold it fast. The Amateur Poacher These bean roots and rootlets show the feeding area or places of plants. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. This growth of new rootlets, I may add, was also observed in another part of the plantation to which, a top dressing of the red earth had been applied. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore That masters gravitation, and lifts up the tree in spite of it; masters cohesion--the tree's rootlets tear asunder the particles of stone; masters chemical affinity--it takes the oxygen from air and water. Among the Forces They make their nests of leaves, rootlets, moss, etc., lined with hair, and placed on the ground, concealed by tufts of grass or by bushes. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The nest is composed almost entirely of dry bamboo-leaves bound together loosely with stems of creepers or roots, and the cavity is lined with black and brown rootlets, generally not very fine. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 That distance, so slight to us, is a well-nigh impossible one for the rootlets to extend to. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Each of these tubercles was pitted in the centre, and into these the almost pointed ends of the rootlets fitted, as by a ball and socket joint. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The doctor stooped towards it, then saw that one of the aërial rootlets still stirred feebly, and hesitated. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The nests are very beautiful structures made of moss, lichens, fine rootlets and grasses and setting high on the limb like those of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Thence it throws out long rootlets, some to earth, others which wrap round the trunk on which it is growing. The Long White Cloud It would seem to shut the rootlets entirely off from the soil. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Vegetable Oyster Soup.—Scrape all the outer covering and small rootlets from vegetable oysters, and lay them in a pan of cold water to prevent discoloration. Science in the Kitchen. Most of the torn aërial rootlets lay already withered amidst a number of dark stains upon the bricks. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Nest in a sugar pine near extremity of branch, 25 feet from the ground and 20 feet out from the trunk of the tree; composed of lichens and fine rootlets, lined with plant down. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Every book that the boy Fritz could anywise come at was, he tells us, "a fresh green spring-place," where "rootlets, thirsty for knowledge pressed and twisted in every direction to seize and absorb." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It finally came out that the boys who planted the plane-tree had not cut off the bruised rootlets. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Those I have seen in the Museum are quite similar, built of twigs and pliant stems, and lined with fine rootlets. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners The tentacle-like aërial rootlets no longer swayed freely in the air, but were crowded together, a tangle of grey ropes, and stretched tight with their ends closely applied to his chin and neck and hands. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The nests are made of bark strips, rootlets, plant fibre, grasses and pine needles, the three to five eggs are greenish or bluish white marked with brown and lilac; size .68 × .52. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. It is also increased by the rootlets, which send up small growths in spring. Gardening for the Million These rootlets being in a bad condition rotted and affected the entire root. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. For he looks out of his nest of grass, moss, bark, and rootlets, to see moose browsing among the young trees, and hears black bears growling. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners "That is a bud," he said, "and presently there will be a lot of leaves there, and those little things coming out here are aërial rootlets." The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Nest of fine rootlets and grasses about 30 feet up on the end of a limb of a pine overhanging a brook. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The doctor stooped towards it, then saw that one of the aerial rootlets still stirred feebly, and hesitated. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The tiny rootlets do not quite reach into the bottom of the hole, and perhaps dangle in the water and begin to decay. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. "No—of fine grasses, rootlets, and bits of bark," said the Doctor; "and in a few days it will hold three or four creamy-white eggs, prettily wreathed around one end with dark-brown spots." Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners I don't know for certain, but I don't think there are any orchids I know that have aërial rootlets quite like that. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The nests are made of fine strips of bark, fibres, rootlets, etc., lined with hair; the eggs are white or pale bluish white, specked with reddish brown; size .62 × .48. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. "That is a bud," he said, "and presently there will be a lot of leaves there, and those little things coming out here are aerial rootlets." The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The root, rootlets and root hairs all go to make up the root-system of a plant. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. A slender rootlet may sometimes be seen hanging from the crown of a palm. Among the Trees at Elmridge "You suffer at the roots of things, far below there, but see all this nobility and splendour, these sweet, bright flowers to which your rootlet life contributes." An Englishman Looks at the World They nest in coniferous trees in swampy places, making their nests of bark shreds and rootlets and placing them in horizontal forks at elevations of from five to thirty feet from the ground. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. I don't know for certain, but I don't think there are any orchids I know that have aerial rootlets quite like that. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The rootlets and the new cane spring from the joints of the planted stalk which is laid flat and lengthwise of the row. Cuba, Old and New The rootlet, as it descends, envelops the column-like stem of the palm with a woody network, and at length reaches the ground. Among the Trees at Elmridge With slips and rootlets, his magic wands, they appear at his bidding. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Their nests are constructed of rootlets, fine weed stalks and grasses, lined with hair, and are placed on horizontal limbs of coniferous trees. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The tentacle-like aerial rootlets no longer swayed freely in the air, but were crowded together, a tangle of grey ropes, and stretched tight, with their ends closely applied to his chin and neck and hands. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The internodes are smooth, the rootlets being attached at the nodes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 It sends out numberless rootlets, each of which, as soon as it reaches the ground, takes root; and between them the palm is stifled and perishes, leaving the fig in undisturbed possession. Among the Trees at Elmridge Clings to walls by rootlets, producing white flowers in midsummer. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Nest a mass of leaves, lined with rootlets, placed on the ground at the base of a small elm sprout in underbrush on a hillside. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Most of the torn aerial rootlets lay already withered amidst a number of dark stains upon the bricks. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The rootlets are filiform, and darker in color. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Only there is a difference in the manner of growth, for the branches of the banyan are some distance from the ground and send forth rootlets without touching it. Among the Trees at Elmridge The sprouts when pulled from the tuber will be found to have rootlets at the lower end and along the stems. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) It was made of leaves, bark fibres, grass, rootlets and hair. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. From the moment they strike their rootlets into the ground, the processes of development and growth are the same. Life: Its True Genesis Plants strive towards light by their tops and towards moisture by their roots; the seed turns itself in the earth to send forth its stalk upwards and its rootlet downward. Initiation into Philosophy One vine, he told us, came up from a tiny rootlet sent to him by Charles Sumner, in a letter from Washington. Authors and Friends "And still there may be a living rootlet left in the soil, which will sprout and renew the dead tree in time." Fan : the story of a young girl's life They nest on the ground on the side hills, concealing the slight structure of grasses and rootlets under overhanging shrubs or stones. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Its aerial rootlets are for support alone, as is the case with all climbers that are not twiners. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Lying flat on my chest to slake my thirst animal fashion, I was amazed at the reflection the water gave back of my face: it was, skin and hair, thickly encrusted with clay and rootlets! A Crystal Age The seed, planted in the ground, sends a little rootlet down, and a little spikelet up, by the same vital act. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII "Will you tell me, Mary, that there is not one living rootlet left?" Fan : the story of a young girl's life Nest on the ground; made of fine rootlets, grass and moss, lined neatly with animal fur. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The sun concentrated its rays on my head through a rift in the jungle, and the stone, stained dull red, lay in its cell, while rootlets fringed with tawny slime wavered over it. Tropic Days They procured about fifteen yards of cane from one of the creeping palms, from which they removed all the old leaf sheafs and adventitious rootlets, making it perfectly smooth. My Tropic Isle And so in our hearts, as it were, the downward rootlet is self-despair, and the upward shoot is faith in Christ. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Plants take up their food through innumerable and microscopic feeding rootlets, which possess the power of absorbing moisture, and furnishing it, distributed by the plant juices, or sap, to stem, branch, leaf, flower and fruit. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use Their nests are made of twigs, rootlets and bark strips, lined with fine rootlets; the three or four eggs are a handsome greenish blue, brightly spotted with reddish brown and gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Deep in the weedy waters spread The rootlets of the placid bloom: So sprung my love's flower, that was bred In deep, still waters of heart's-gloom. Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems Sometimes moving aside the tufts of grass with careless fingers while resting on the sward, I found these little pebble-stones loose in the crumbly earth among the rootlets. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies These gradually increase in size until, finally, they rupture the skin and appear as rootlets. Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf Never attempt to pull the seedlings from the soil in the flats, as the little rootlets are very easily broken off. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use Large nest of dry twigs, rootlets, etc., lined with bits of rabbit hair and feathers; 4 feet from the ground in a small shrub. 711a. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The lymphatics seem to start out from the part in which they are found, like the rootlets of a plant in the soil. A Practical Physiology But to-day I have to listen to the lark's song—not out of doors with him, but through the window-pane, and the bullfinch carries the rootlet fibre to his nest without me. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies When the seedlings are somewhat grown, remove the sawdust, and the rootlets will be found to have left their autographs behind. Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf Trace our cellular pedigree, descend our family tree to its rootlets, our amebic ancestors, and the craving for more freedom is manifest in the soul of even the lowest, buried in darkness and slime. The Glands Regulating Personality Their nests are large, and bulkily made of sticks and rootlets; the eggs range from two to four in number and are pale greenish blue, unmarked. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Each lobule has a branch of the pulmonary artery entering it, and a similar rootlet of the pulmonary vein leaving it. A Practical Physiology It drank them in through its rootlets: it breathed them in through its leaf-pores, that it might distil them into sap, and bud, and leaf, and wood. Town Geology The seedling or rootlet would be just like the original plant, if we did not from the first control its growth by means of our electric frames. Across the Zodiac Such spreading of rootlets far and wide, Such whispering to and fro; And, "Are you ready?" the Snowdrop asked, "'Tis time to start, you know." Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study The habits of this species are similar to those of the eastern Winter Wren; they nest between boulders and in crevices of rocks or stumps, making their nests of moss and rootlets, lined with feathers. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. These little rootlets, reaching out into the milky fluid, drink into their minute blood vessels the nutritious part of every sort of food. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree quite over her shoulder. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers This property is probably assisted by the presence of numerous fine tubes arranged vertically and lined with calcium carbonate; these are supposed to have been formed in the first place by fibrous rootlets. The Antiquity of Man Countless rootlets drew up the richness of the earth like miners in the darkness, throwing their petals of yellow ore broadcast above them. The Life of the Fields They nest in the crevices of rocks or between boulders, making their nests of rootlets and grass, lining it with hair and feathers. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. In handling plants at any time, never let the little rootlets dry and shrivel. Success with Small Fruits Who hasn't seen a robin's nest?—that strong, large house of grasses, plastered inside with mud, and furnished with a lining of rootlets. Friends and Helpers On every side they will find rootlets thirsting to drink them in, and they will be sucked up as if by tiny sponges, and drawn into the plants, and up the stems to the leaves. The Fairy-Land of Science He saw a tree, sending down its roots into the ground, spreading everywhere, each tiny rootlet constructed for the purpose of absorbing water. Jimmie Higgins This species is very abundant in moist thickets throughout its range, nesting in bushes and low trees, and making them of weed stalks, bark strips, grasses and moss, lined with fine black rootlets. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. All along their length, and at their ends, little white rootlets start, if the conditions are favorable, almost immediately. Success with Small Fruits This excludes the air, and the new rootlets form rapidly. The Home Acre I was told that by plowing deep I would injure my trees, in cutting up small rootlets and fibres which the olive extends through the surface soil. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered It is a very ticklish subject, sending subtle rootlets into all kinds of crannies, and hard to treat in the sketchy way that alone befits a public lecture. Pragmatism Such spreading of rootlets far and wide, Such whispering to and fro. Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 This promotes a rapid growth of new rootlets, and therefore of the plants. Success with Small Fruits As little as they concerned the gnats that danced so busily in the golden light, at the corner where the alder dipped her red rootlets to drink the brimming stream. At Large It is easier to destroy a weed when but an inch above the ground than after it has attained a rank growth and set its hundred rootlets in the soil. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend Every root and rootlet under ground must have felt it; the buds of the soft maple and silver poplar felt it, and swelled perceptibly during the day. Winter Sunshine The tiny rootlet in its search for food and moisture inserts itself into some minute rift, and as it grows slowly wedges the rock apart. The Elements of Geology Before new roots can be made by a cutting, a whitish excrescence appears at both its ends, called the callus, and from this the rootlets start out. Success with Small Fruits In a specimen of one of these, represented in Figure 465, the spread of the roots was sixteen feet, and some of them sent out rootlets, in all directions, into the surrounding clay. The Student's Elements of Geology Often, perhaps more often than not, the ground is covered with grass, above all with couch-grass, whose tenacious rootlets form an inextricable network below the surface. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The rootlets of plants are sent through the soil, and, among other things, soluble phosphates in the earth are absorbed, circulated by the sap, and selected by the various tissues. An Introduction to Chemical Science It settles across a bunch of tangled rootlets, which are brought together by the builder's legs and more or less arranged by the undulating movement of the hinder part. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography They are set root end up, and the fine, matted rootlets present a compact surface which the Igorot has carved in the traditional shape of the “anito.” The Bontoc Igorot At many other levels rootlets of this same plant have been shown by Principal Dawson to penetrate the clays, and to play the same part as do the rootlets of Stigmaria in the coal formation. The Student's Elements of Geology We use only the finest of rootlets, strips of soft bark, fibers of plants, the brown cotton that grows on ferns, and perhaps a little hair when we can find it. The Burgess Bird Book for Children These threads proceeded from the bark of the rootlet at one end, and at the other end were firmly attached to particles of silex or mortar from the wall. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants The rootlets supply stumps of very uneven shape and thickness. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Some are suspended singly, others in clusters; some reach halfway to the ground and others touch it, striking their rootlets into the earth. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The cylindrical rootlets formerly regarded as leaves are now shown by more perfect specimens to have been attached to the root by fitting into deep cylindrical pits. The Student's Elements of Geology I build my nest of twigs and grass and weed-stalks and I line it with hair and rootlets and feathers. The Burgess Bird Book for Children According to Mohl, the rootlets of certain species of Lycopodium act as tendrils. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants If you really had a religious belief, it threw out roots and rootlets through all your life. Gala-days It uprooted giant trees along the river, and with them the tiny rootlets of the life he was idly fostering. Drift from Two Shores These protuberances may possibly indicate the place of a joint at the lower extremity of the rootlet. The Student's Elements of Geology My nest is usually made of grasses, moss and rootlets. The Burgess Bird Book for Children Some other rootlets were left in contact during twenty-three days, and these were firmly cemented to the glass. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants The walls, though built of the smooth, slaty stone which abounds in that region, showed many rifts and chinks where ivy had fastened its rootlets. The Chouans The heart to which the rootlets of my first affection should have clung, my mother's heart, was closed to me, in spite of my persistence in seeking a cleft through which they might have slipped. The Lily of the Valley Yellow wallflowers bloomed about the copings; ivy slid its white rootlets into every crevice. Sons of the Soil At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree, quite over her shoulder. Selected Stories of Bret Harte Yet I looked repeatedly at other rootlets similarly treated, and could never again discover these elastic threads. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants With a steady assurance, a swift deliberation, these amazing seeds thrust a rootlet downward to the earth and a queer little bundle-like bud into the air. The First Men in the Moon By this definition, spines, hooks and rootlets, all of which are used for climbing, are excluded. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants Whether other plants, which climb by their rootlets, emit any cement I do not know; but the rootlets of the Ivy, placed against glass, barely adhered to it, yet secreted a little yellowish matter. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants Plants climbing by the aid of hooks, or merely scrambling over other plants—Root-climbers, adhesive matter secreted by the rootlets— General conclusions with respect to climbing plants, and the stages of their development. 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