Identifier: reportonleaffibe05dodg (find matches)
Title: A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Dodge, Charles Richards, 1847-1918
Subjects: Fibers
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fig. 6.—Blossom of false sisal hemp plant. Plate V. D
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31 covered with rank growths of wild vines, whose tendrils bind firmlytogether whole bunches of leaves. I saw one plant so bound in thismanner that the larger part of its leaves were tied closely together atthe tips, yet it grew and put forth new leaves as though free like itsfellows. . Plate v illustrates fully the appearance of the vegetation upon theseuninhabited keys, where everything grows in wildest luxuriance andforms tangles so dense as to be impenetrable save as the explorer cutshis way in with blows of the machete. It is in such places that thefalse sisal, the Spanish bayonet, and cactus or prickly pear are foundin perfection. The experiences of my first day on and around Sands Key, wherethis view was taken, will long be remembered; although in Februarythe air was as balmy as spring. Donning a pair of rubber boots reachingto the hips, and in company with Mr. Jo Curry, we put off from theyacht early in the morning in a small boat to make the round of thisinteresting isle, lyi

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