41 Verbs to Use for the Word bulb

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 Festuca Dometorum, fescue grass of the bushes, produces bulbs from the sheaths of its straw.

When planted in beds or borders, place the bulbs about 4 in.

"It's a great piece of good fortuneMother selected only pink bulbs and a few yellow ones to put back into the ground and gave the other colors to Grandmother.

Every other moment some of them would be down, digging in the earth with forefinger or a little stick, and I soon learned they were gathering bulbs about a quarter of an inch in thickness and as large around as the smaller end of a woman's thimble.

By bursting flash bulbs.

A plant may throw off bulbs, but these, sooner or later, give rise to seeds or spores, which develop into the original form.

that the seeds of Orchis will ripen, if you destroy the new bulb; and that Lily of the Valley, Convallaria, will produce many more seeds, and ripen them, if the roots be crowded in a garden-pot, so as to prevent them from producing many bulbs.

Plant in autumn, and divide the bulbs every two or three years.

And she drew from her bosom the third bulb, still wrapped in the same paper Van Baerle had so hastily put round the bulbs on his flight.

Little peculiarity of after treatment is requisite, except perhaps that the bulbs which are to flower in the season should have a rather larger proportion of leaf mould in the compost, and that if handsome flowers are required, it will be well to examine the bulb every week at least by gently taking the mould from around them, and removing all off-sets that appear on the old bulb.

I've got pink tulip bulbs in the ground now and there are some pink flowering shrubsweigelia and flowering almondalready there against the lattice of the veranda.

I hold a bulb in my one hand and a tulip in my other.

They are like the two buttons on the wall which regulate the supply of electricity to incandescent bulbs, one switching on the current, the other switching it off.

Dig the ground out to a depth of 1 ft. or 15 in.; put in a layer of leaf-mould or rotted manure, and then 4 or 5 in. of earth mixed with sand; insert the bulbs (6 in.

The rooms were hung with blue and golden globes of lightsin reality paper lanternssheltering electric bulbs.

In July, when the tops are dying down, lift the bulbs, lay them in the sunshine to dry, then store them in a cool place.

" "Mother likes bulbs, too," said Dorothy, "crocuses and hyacinths and Chinese liliesbut I never cared much about them.

Craeke arrived just when Van Baerle was nursing his precious bulbsthe bulbs of the black tulipand his sudden entrance rudely disturbed the tulip-grower.

This was Boxtel, who had bribed the headsman to let him have Van Baerle's clothes, believing that he would thus obtain the priceless bulbs.

And then, glancing at the paper for the first time, she added, "Oh, my lord, read this!" William passed the third bulb to the president, and read the paper carefully.

Sink the suction end into water, and press the bulb.

Rosa told everything, how she had received the bulb from the prisoner at Loewenstein, and how she had first seen the prisoner at The Hague.

An overturned chair beside her and a shattered light globe told how she had tried to screw a new bulb into the fixture in the ceiling and had tipped over with the chair, striking her head on the cement floor.

And now, with Van Baerle out of the house as a prisoner, Boxtel in the dead of night broke into his neighbour's house, to secure the priceless bulbs of the black tulip.

41 Verbs to Use for the Word  bulb