They grow up like a strange plant in a forest, without our being able to tell how the seed found its way there.

In such wise then, did I live for some time, for it was then pleasing to Love that I should live in this manner; and, in good sooth, so blithely and joyously were these days spent that I had little cause to envy any lady in the whole world, never imagining that the delight wherewith my heart was filled to overflowing, was to nourish the root and plant of my future misery, as I now know to my fruitless and never-ending

The bottom of the valley is now composed of level meadow-lands and dry, sloping soil-beds planted with oak and pine, but it was once a lake stretching from wall to wall and nearly from one end of the valley to the other, forming one of the most beautiful cliff-bound sheets of water that ever existed in the Sierra.

Those groves are all planted on dry hillsides covered with chaparral, and therefore are liable to be swept by fire.

The Ville de Paris furnishes all the flowers and plants for the official receptions, and they always are very well arranged.

"We want enough to run a newspaper plant at Millville, and will pay for whatever we use.

The slant digging and down-raking action of hoofs on the steeper slopes of moraines has uprooted and buried many of the tender plants from year to year, without allowing them time to mature their seeds.

By the courtesy of the Fisheries, the planting of a harpoon in the vitals of a Right whale gives the planter a pre-emption claim to it.

So he took the banana plant to Chief Njiri.

A former king of the country had sent to Central India and got a slip of the patra tree, which he planted by the side of the hall of Buddha, where a tree grew up to the height of about two hundred cubits.

No other pine on the range is so regularly planted as this one.

If affranchisement produced the destruction of planting in St. Domingo, we know now the reason.

"How long before Trieste will be free?" We approached Udine through a long avenue of plane trees, planted under Napoleon.

" "And you believe you can do the work of three men?" "Three men were unnecessary in a small plant like this, sir.

The Society Islanders ascribed a "varua" or surviving soul to plants, and the negroes of Congo adored a sacred tree called "Mirrone," one being generally planted near the house, as if it were the tutelar god of the dwelling.

What is the seed growing into a plant, the plant into a flower, the flower to a seed again, but that thing making itself, transforming itself, by an inward law of life which God's Spirit gives it.

He's hiding somewhere close at hand, and I shouldn't wonder if the whole thing's a plant between him and his wife.

At daybreak on the 13th the cannonade began again, as well from the batteries planted against Chapultepec as from Steptoe's guns, which were served against the southern defences of the city in order to divert the attention of the enemy.

The flowers are orange-colored and quite small, the smallest I ever saw of the true lilies; but it is showy nevertheless, for it is seven to eight feet high and waves magnificent racemes of ten to twenty flowers or more over one's head, while it stands out in the open ground with just enough of grass and other plants about it to make a fringe for its feet and show it off to best advantage.

Here, also, as in Daytona, I found a strikingly handsome tufted plant, a highly varnished evergreen, which I persisted in taking for a fernthe sterile frondsin spite of repeated failures to find it described by Dr. Chapman under that head, until at last an excellent woman came to my help with the information that it was "coontie" (Zamia integrifolia), famous as a plant out of which the Southern people made bread in war time.

Then, on the outskirts of the town, there are detached villas, inclosed within that separate domain of high stone fence and embowered shrubbery which an Englishman so loves to build and plant around his abode, presenting to the public only an iron gate, with a gravelled carriage-drive winding away towards the half-hidden mansion.

I learnt from him that butterflies are insects that are more closely related to plants than to insects.

For planting on the rockwork, amongst tree roots, or beneath the shade of trees, the Gaultherias are particularly suitable.

As with the squirrel, so with jays and pies, which plant among the grass and moss, horse-beans, and probably forget where they have secreted them.

A few vagrant families were planted within the limits of Carolinia; but it is quite certain that no colony existed until after the restoration.