coilers

Updated: May 10, 2025

This Lethean influence could hardly be that of the ailantus-tree alone. What of the plants on the balcony beneath, the strange, rooty coilers which the mysterious planter sedulously fosters at the glooming of dusk, with a weird watering-pot held forth in a fawn-colored hand?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860