...Love is a plant so tender that to uproot or transplantit may touch a vital part...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...In all that weltering chaos we can see no spot so large as a man’s hand on which we may plant our foot...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...So we plant seeds in rows on our dam-wall, and pull one up daily to see how it goes with them...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...This peculiarity of one species of plant bearing both sweet and bitter fruits occurs also in a red, eatable cucumber, often met with in the country...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There are two kinds of cotton in the country, and the Mashona, who convert it into cloth, dye it blue with this plant...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Their food is tender grass and a plant named thotona, and they frequently resort to heaps of ashes and places containing efflorescence of the nitrates for the salts these contain...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Lotus-plants abounded in them, and a low, sweet-scented plant covered their banks...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The elephants are fond of the fruit, plant, and root alike...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...She cultivated also the common castor-oil plant, and a larger shrub ('Jatropha curcas'), which also yields a purgative oil...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I understood him to say that this last plant flourishes, but the wet of one of the two rainy seasons with which this country is favored sometimes proves troublesome to the grower...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He himself applied the leaf of a plant called cathory, famed among the natives as an excellent remedy for ulcers...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The clammy fluid is intended to entrap insects, which, dying on the leaf, probably yield nutriment to the plant...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...A kind of sarsaparilla, or a plant which is believed by the Portuguese to be such, is found from Londa to Senna, but has never been exported...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...We find a medicine in use by a tribe in one part of the country, and the same plant employed by a tribe a thousand miles distant...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
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