She planted fruit trees there and planned to raise rubber and cocoa and cattle.

There no one else has yet planted the Gospel seed.

Massive, flat-topped spurs alternate with the gorges, plunging abruptly from the shoulders of the snowy peaks, and planting their feet in the warm desert.

It has been the deliberate policy of the Austrian Government to plant new Slovene colonies here from time to time and to render life intolerable for Italians.

Other friends ploughed and planted her garden, and performed numberless kind offices.

In the garden they laid out a strawberry bed of two thousand plants, helped to plant corn and beans, picked beans and other vegetables.

We have found the road to the hills, and in time I will plant the flag of my race on the Shenandoah.

Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the Rock of Christ, the true, the spiritual idea,the chief corner-stone in the house of our God.

Misterton had cleared and planted about forty acres, enclosed with a barb-wire fence.

This spring I planted that patch of ground with it, anticipatin the biggest crop of pie timber in the State.

With that immense quantity of rolling stones which now block up those paths, and which are scattered over most of the ground of this island, he formed here and there pyramids; and at their base he laid earth, and planted the roots of rose bushes, the Barbadoes flower fence, and other shrubs which love to climb the rocks.

Attributing, then, the symbolical character of the rose to its tutelary planet, they regard the earth in the same light as the ancients did the chaste Diana, and believe that she plants this her favourite flower in the moon, whenever she loses a votary.

They showed a delightfully child-like trust in Nature and her methods, for in the springtime, instead of planting their potatoes in the ground the way they saw other people doing it, they sprinkled them around the "fireguard," believing that the birds of the air strewed leaves over them, or the rain washed them in, or in some mysterious way they made a bed for themselves in the soil.

They had planted pleasant vineyards, but should not drink of them.

MYSTIC PLANTS CHAPTER I. PLANT LIFE.

Bamboo, it is now found, will supply an admirable material for paper; and I have been assured by paper-makers that those who will plant the West Indian wet lands with bamboo for their use, may realise enormous profits.

as he came to the spot where he had planted the bare root bulbs, he saw that from them had sprung flourishing green stalks, which bore beautiful flowers with silver white leaves.

The man staggered back and before he could recover Jack planted two hard blows right and leftto his sore nose.

Along the sides of the highway we travelled, were planted rows of trees, not unlike our sycamores, which afforded a refreshing shade to the traveller; and commonly a rivulet ran bubbling along one side or the other of the road.

These are the humble amusements we propose, while you are gone to plant the cross of Christ among barbarous pagan anthropophagi.

"In my seventeenth book," objected Nonnus, "Bacchus plants vines in India, and the superiority of wine to milk is convincingly demonstrated.

It must be remembered that John Cabot took the time to go on shore at his landfall, and planted the banners of England and St. Mark there.

If you plant a field with corn, and the weeds spring up also along with it, why do you complain?

" Of the many proverbs connected with thorns, there is the true one which tells us how, "He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns," The meaning of which is self-evident, and the person who lives in a chronic state of uneasiness is said to, "sit on thorns."

They went to a country many thousands of miles awayfor you must know that Mrs. John went too; and when the sea voyage ended, they travelled many days and weeks in a wagon until they came to the place where they wanted to live; and there, in that lonely country, they built a house, and made a garden, and planted an orchard.