September 27, 1775
Posted by sydney on Sep 27th, 1775
Gathered-in the royal russets, & knobbed russets. Tyed-up endive. *My Arundo donax, which I receied from Gibraltar, is grown this year eight or nine feet high: I therefore opened the head of one stalk to see what approaches it had made towards blowing after so hot a summer. When it was cut open we found a long series of leaves enfolded one within the other to a most minute degree, but not the least rudiments of fructification; so that the plant must have extended itself many feet before it could have attained to it’s full stature: and must have required many more weeks of hot weather before it could have brought any seeds to maturity.
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