Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book is a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the "Herald Tribune Syndicate" but here first included in book form. The book originally contained two introductory pieces followed by eight Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting: Those marked † are omitted in recent reprintings for no given reason. The first four stories may be read at the beginning of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". "The Green Breasted Martins" follows Chapter XII in "The Story of Doctor Dolittle". "The
Low marsh Low marsh Low marsh is a tidal marsh zone. It is characterized as being flooded daily. The water of the low marsh is shallow, silt laden, salty, and warm. These factors decrease the water's capacity to hold dissolved oxygen. Spartina alterniflora and some types of algae are the only plants that can survive in this zone. Some areas of the low marsh are covered by the tides for most of the day. The mud that makes up the soil in the low marsh has high levels of salinity. A plant that lives in soil that is highly saline is known