Plant a kernel of wheat in the ground and note how its rootlets pierce the soil, extending always from the tip.
The plow, the harrow, the sharp-toothed cultivator, divide and subdivide the soil of farm and garden so as to offer rootlets new surfaces at which rain may be drunk in with its nourishing food.
He is at the outset met with the difficulty that words are seldom free from ambiguity, and that fact and fiction are as inextricably intertangled as are the rootlets of two trees growing side by side.
Shift on young stock, keeping the plants well down in the pots as they throw out fresh rootlets from the stem.
Shift on the young stock, keeping the plants well down in the pots, so as to bring the earth in the pots up to the lowermost leaves, to induce the plants to throw out fresh rootlets from the stem.
These little creatures are by no means confined to the surface soil, but have been found in great armies at a depth of six feet or more in stiff clay, which they have penetrated by following the deeperrootlets of trees.
The underclays beneath the seam of coal were full of stems and rootlets of Stigmaria, and the sight of these confirmed him in the opinion that the coal was formed of the remains of plants which had grown upon the spot.
Take a child of four or five, ask it a question concerning its Caste, and you will see how that baby tree has begun to drop branch rootlets down.
Sixty years afterwards look again, and every rootlet has grown a tree, each again sending rootlets down; and so the system spreads.
Its seeds germinate in the calyx of the flower, and, before they drop, grow to be little brown stems, some six or seven inches long and about as thick as a finger, with little rootlets at one end.
Most of the torn aërial rootlets lay already withered amidst a number of dark stains upon the bricks.
The doctor stooped towards it, then saw that one of the aërial rootlets still stirred feebly, and hesitated.
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.
Then she thought of tearing through the sucker rootlets one by one, and in another minute she had released him and was dragging him away from the horror.
I don't know for certain, but I don't think there are any orchids I know that have aërial rootlets quite like that.
Those puffs would be just another annoyance except for the fact that those little rootlets evidently work on the nerve endings of the body just enough so they don't hurt but itch instead and, brother, how they do itch!
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 Handbook says animal fibers are protein an' if the puffs get a foothold on any article of clothing made of 'em, then their rootlets c'n penetrate most any kind of goo an' fasten into the guy that happens to be so stupid.
But theserootlets have faith, and faith moves mountains.
I may add, that the rootlets of the Marcgravia dubia can adhere firmly to smooth painted wood.
Yet I looked repeatedly at other rootlets similarly treated, and could never again discover these elastic threads.
Some other rootlets were left in contact with the glass for about ten days or a fortnight, and the drops of secreted fluid were now rather larger, and so viscid that they could be drawn out into threads.
According to Mohl, the rootlets of certain species of Lycopodium act as tendrils.
Hence we may conclude that therootlets first secrete a slightly viscid fluid, subsequently absorb the watery parts, (for we have seen that the fluid will not dry by itself,) and ultimately leave a cement.
Some other rootlets were left in contact during twenty-three days, and these were firmly cemented to the glass.
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.
In handling plants at any time, never let the little rootlets dry and shrivel.
All along their length, and at their ends, little white rootlets start, if the conditions are favorable, almost immediately.
One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
From the moment they strike their rootlets into the ground, the processes of development and growth are the same.
It gradually expands until its outer membranes burst, and its initial rootlets clasp their hold upon the earth.
Don't you think it-would be rather nice to have the hepatica, and have it stand for what Miss King said--sending our rootlets into good soil?
And now, even though she was tired of it all, even though she desired deep in her heart to turn her rootlets into better soil, perhaps it was too late.
Beneath the snow in the winter silence they are at work, sending out their rootlets through the brown earth, avoiding the rocks and sandy places, but taking firm hold upon that which will nourish them best.
And, deep in her heart, she resolved to try harder than ever to avoid the rocks and the sand, and to send her rootlets deep down into the soil which Miss King had described.
Was she sending out rootlets toward the right soil, she wondered?
Ever since September Dorothy had sent her rootlets into the waste places of indolence and poor companionship; and now that she had truly resolved to change it seemed to her discouraged heart almost too late.
The nest consists of strips of bark, twigs, rootlets and grasses, placed at any height in evergreens or orchard trees.
Through the action of shade and moisture, the under surface of this carpet becomes a layer of fine leaf mold, which in turn offers rich food for the sustenance of millions of tiny feedingrootlets from the trees of the forest.
In these machines, they were thoroughly cleansed, scraped, and freed from tops, rootlets and imperfections.
Intestinal rootlets of the small intestines, like vegetal rootlets, demand a certain amount of normal fluid and solid substance, free from noxious gas.
These millions of rootlets give a velvety appearance to the alimentary canal, like a nap or downy surface.
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.
Then the sun-waves above-ground take up the work, and form green granules in the tiny leaves, helping them to take food out of the air, while the little rootlets below are drinking water out of the ground.
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.
Here when the ivy has a chance to climb up a tree or bush, up it goes, throwing out its aerial rootlets in all directions.
The stem of the vine is nearly smooth in texture; the aerial rootlets (Fig.
Instead of aerial rootlets like the ivy, it has stout tendrils more or less twisted and curled, often assuming the form of a spiral spring.
Trunk-like root of iWightia gigantea,/i ascending a tree, which its stout rootlets clasp.
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