From the end of May until as late as need be in July the occurrence of every rain sent all hands to setting the tobacco seedlings in their hills at top speed as long as the ground stayed wet enough to give prospect of success in the process.

That this is owing to the absorbing power of the roots, may be shown by breaking off the seedling, and putting the slip in water.

Trees should be dropped so that they will not crush young seedlings and sapling growth as they fall.

Fires in these forests destroy the seedlings and saplings, but do not usually kill the mature trees.

Having a series, as above described, before them, the pupils should draw the seedlings.

an unfair price I was above asking, so I flung the seedlings on my pea-sticks, and made a bon-fire on 'em.

This first stage never infects a young seedling direct, but gives rise to secondary spores, or sporida, from which infection threads may arise and penetrate the shoot of a young seedling and reach the growing point.

Goats, cattle and sheep injure young seedlings by browsing.

According to Pliny, the touch of a menstruous woman turned wine to vinegar, blighted crops, killed seedlings, blasted gardens, brought down the fruit from trees, dimmed mirrors, blunted razors, rusted iron and brass (especially at the waning of the moon), killed bees, or at least drove them from their hives, caused mares to miscarry, and so forth.

The bells went on ringing, a spirit came singing, And smiled as he crumbled the tree; 'Yon wood does but perish new seedlings to cherish, And the world is too live yet for thee.

(3) Place two seedlings in water, one with its top, the other with its roots in the jar.

" Kora said nothing but when the time for sowing maize came he took his grain of maize and sowed it by the dung heap, and he called them to see where he sowed it; and at the time of sowing rice he sowed his grain separately, and when the time for transplanting came he planted his rice seedling in a hollow and bade them note it.

After potting the seedlings remove them to a cooler house and keep them near the glass.

They protect the young seedlings from the sun just as the parent trees would do in the forest.

If they do not wish to purchase their seedlings from a reliable nursery-man, they can grow them from carefully selected seed planted in well-prepared seedbeds.

Hoe hands, under orders to chop carefully, stirred the crust along the rows and reduced the seedlings to a "double stand," leaving only two plants to grow at each interval of twelve or eighteen inches.

In time he gave up the care of his orchard to other hands, but he reserved this seedling for his own especial coddling.

They are twins; twined round each other they ripen on to their birth into the light, and she would separate these seedlings because she cannot believe in innocence, which she inoculates with the monstrous sin of prejudice!

of the beds that showed seedlings were rewarded by being allowed the privilege of planting the vines and tall blossoming plants that were to cover the inside of the fence.

There is little danger of weeds smothering out the seedlings under such conditions.

It happened that just then the farmer was walking in the field to see that no one came to steal his rice seedlings, and the crab began to sing: "This servant, this servant, father, And this maidservant, this maidservant, father, Caught me while digging the bank:

We will not work for them anymore; come, let us undo the work we did to-day, you cut down the embankments you repaired, and I will uproot the seedlings which I planted."

And if "beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into" its "face," how much more subtly shall the grave strength of peace, the sunshine of hope and sweet content, thrill the delicate chords of being, and warm the tender seedling into richer life.

Besides this, I should, of course, lose the opportunity of transplanting them to Mars, though I had more hope of acclimatising seedlings raised from the seed I carried with me than plants which had actually begun their life on the surface of the Earth.

An' what is cut won't yield seedlings.