tillering

Updated: May 27, 2025

And a noble grass it is, with its stems as thick as one's wrist, tillering out below in bold curves over the well-hoed dark soil, and its broad bright leaves falling and folding above in curves as bold as those of the stems: handsome enough thus, but more handsome still, I am told, when the 'arrow, as the flower is called, spreads over the cane-piece a purple haze, which flickers in long shining waves before the breeze.

Charles Kingsley - At Last