Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266264668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Excerpt from Aquatic Plants in Pond Culture It is perhaps superfluous to add that submerged plants bind the bottom soil together, thus acting as a deterrent to turbidity from that source; and that plants doubtless facilitate clarification when the water of a pond has become turbid with surface drainage after a rain or from other external causes of a temporary character. The superintendent of the Tupelo, Mississippi, station, Mr. C. W. Burn ham, cites as an evidence of this the numerous reservoirs or tanks in the West which are devoid of vegetation and in which the water is constantly roiled. It is possible that in some instances the absence of vegetation is due to the constantly roily water, a condition else where referred to; but control tests in aquaria demonstrate that in an aquarium containing Cabomba the water is clarified much more quickly than in one devoid of vegetation. It is believed that if many of the so-called tanks of the Western States now devoid of vege tation could be stocked with water plants, these would not only pre vent turbid water by binding the bottom soil together, but would under certain conditions prove an aid to clarification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.