The same seed becomes a very different plant when sowed in one soil or another, and put under this or that mode of cultivation.

" In bygone times the appearance of the berries of the elder was held to indicate the proper season for sowing wheat: "With purple fruit when elder branches bend, And their high hues the hips and cornels lend, Ere yet chill hoar-frost comes, or sleety rain, Sow with choice wheat the neatly furrowed plain.

The Government calls for the sowing of three million additional acres of wheat in Great Britain; and throughout the country the steam tractors are at work ploughing up land which has either never borne wheat, or which has ceased to bear it for nearly a century.

Every rebel sympathizer driven from the North would strengthen the Union cause; ashes and salt sowed on the ground their insolent homes had desecrated, would be a holy reminder to the loyal, a warning to the secret foes of the Union.

The country appeared flourishing, and they obtained some turnips raised from seed sown at Cook's last visit.

These Nihilists would have been all very well if they had been content to sow for posterity.

For three days its cannon had pounded on every nerve in my body; but none of the horror it had sowed from the eastern frontier of Belgium to within four miles of me, had reached me except in the form of a threat.

481. play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes &c (misinterpret) 523. trip, stumble; lose oneself &c (uncertainty) 475; go astray; fail &c 732; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear &c (mismanage) 699; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance &c (credulity) 486; dream &c (imagine) 515.

They have sown to the flesh, and they will of the flesh reap corruption.

You let yourself be killed like any sow under the butcher's knife, and dare to leave me shadowless? Then die like carrion and rot unburied!" He began to kick him, but the stricken man's lips moved.

Candytuft, for instance, they sowed first in April and they planned to make a second sowing in May and a third late in July so that they might see the pretty white border blossoms late in the autumn.

Ten years later she writes: "It is a missionary's duty to sow beside all waters, and to lose no opportunity, even if his chance of doing good be but small.

Clover-seed is sown during March in wheat, and left till the following year.

The autumn sowing of course produces a crop not exactly of wild oats, but of romantic tares that springs in the hitherto barren heart of one Keeling, prosperous tradesman, husband, father, mayor, public benefactor and baronet, by reason of the too sympathetic damsel who types his letters and catalogues his library.

The seeds of this had been partially sown before in the days of quiet, and the time was come for their development.

In the end one of the sections of Turks accepted Chinese overlordship, and some tribes of the other section were brought over to the Chinese side; also, fresh disunion was sown among the Turks.

The instance already given of breaking a sow into a pointer, till she became more stanch even than the dog itself, though surprising, is far less wonderful than that evidence of education where so generally obtuse an animal may be taught not only to spell, but couple figures and give dates correctly.

The clean, plump grain, the sowing on fallow ground, the long wait, the first tender green, and the change day by day to the deep waving fields of goldthen the harvest, hot, noisy, smoky, full of dust and chaff, and the great combine-harvesters with thirty-four horses.

"Not yet in Brittany must Tristan cling To this or that sad memory, and be Alone, as she in Cornwall; for in spring Love sows against far harvestings,and he Is blind, and scatters baleful seed that bring Such fruitage as blind Love lacks eyes to see!" Osmund paused here for an appreciable interval, staring at the Queen.

Grass-seed had been sown along both banks of the stream, and its waters were quietly flowing between two wide belts of fresh verdure, the young plants having already started in that sheltered receptacle of the sun's rays.

Wheat or oats are sown between.

On the other hand, the orchard (-arbustum-) was sown like any corn field (Colum.

And if the land must be sown below the ridge see that it is ploughed with small furrows and the earth raised as much as you are able.

Provide at least two good grazing lots for them, with Bermuda, crab-grass, or clover, which does as well at Washington, Miss., as anywhere in the world, with two bushels of ground plaster to the acre, sowed over it.

The quantity sown per acre is the same as Wheat.