water-hyacinths

Updated: May 11, 2025

In front of them he had planted a row of water-hyacinths without disturbing in the least the state of their azure bloom, and where the ground arose higher for his floor, a row of foxfire, that soon would be open.

Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Alligators lay here and there along the banks; and a wild hog plowed about in the matted water-hyacinths, unconcernedly seeking food, not alarmed by the alligators or the boat or by the fierce brown Mexican buzzards the killing variety which contemplated him from the dead cypress branches above. For two hours the Cormorant drove upstream without missing a stroke of her engines.

Henry Oyen - The Plunderer