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Definition of Rootstocks
1. rootstock [n] - See also: rootstock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rootstocks
Literary usage of Rootstocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"Instead of leaves, rootstocks buried under ground commonly bear scales, ...
Some rootstocks are marked with large round scars of a different sort, ..."
2. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"A square foot of Quack grass sod was selected and excavated to the depth of the
rootstocks, about five inches. The soil was carefully washed away from the ..."
3. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Instead of leaves, rootstocks buried under ground commonly bear scales, ...
Some rootstocks are marked with large round scars of a different sort, ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"rootstocks: no cluster of • • of tlic developed stems; cauline leaves all closely
sessile : Réceptacle ..."
5. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Their strength has been taken up in the formation of secondary rootstocks and
above-ground growth. In other words, the old rootstocks do not live over a ..."
6. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Some of the simplest kinds are called rootstocks. Familiar examples are those of
some mints, of bloodroot, of Solomon's seal, and of many grasses, sedges, ..."
7. Lessons with Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"CORMS AND rootstocks Fio. 376. Corm of gladiolus. 447. True bulbs are made up of
scales. But there are certain bulb-like bodies which are solid throughout. ..."
8. Lessons with Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1897)
"... together) and which, when planted, complete their growth and become merchantable
bulbs. LXIX. CORMS AND rootstocks Fio. 376. Corm of gladiolus. 447. ..."
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