The tree is then lowered to the proper depth, and made plumb by the guy-ropes, and good, mellow soil is thrown in and packed well into all the cavities under the roots.
The cracking of portland cement on the surface of long cavitiesis caused by the swaying of trees during heavy storms, and should not occur if the filling is correctly done.
Very large cavities with great openings are generally bricked on the outside, over the opening, and filled on the inside with concrete, the brick serving the purpose of a retaining wall to hold the concrete in place.
The filling of cavities in trees has not been practiced sufficiently long to warrant making a definite statement as to the permanent success or failure of the operation; the work is still in an experimental stage.
Pruning requires a previous intimate knowledge of the habits of growth of trees; surgery, on the other hand, requires in addition a knowledge of the best methods for making cavities air-tight and preventing decay.
When the hole is half filled, several barrels of water should be poured in; this will wash the soil into the cavities under the center of the tree much better.
The caring for cavities in trees must be urged as the only means of preserving affected specimens, and the preservation of many noble specimens has been at least temporarily assured through the efforts of those practicing this kind of work.
In cavities where leaden coats of arms have once been imbedded are little basins to catch the rain, where careless sparrows drink and take their morning baths, twittering and chirruping among the homesteads of the dead.
From an observation of several cavities near the surface and in the sides of the oyster banks, the shells, in some instances, appear to have been subjected to fire.
The fox burrows amongst ruins, bats and birds nestle in the cavities in walls, the snake and the lizard likewise make them their habitation.
I saw no cavities through which they could have entered, and the undisturbed state of the lake seemed to give weight to my notion.
Next come the Great and Little Saucer Stones, so named from the cavities scooped out upon them.
At the Bride Stones, near Todmorden, thirteen cavities were counted on one block, and eleven on another.
On a third there are four circularcavities of varying dimensions, the largest in the centre, and three others surrounding it, but none of these is more than a few inches in diameter.
Cysts are often present which simulate cavities found in the body, whether of normal or pathological origin.
These cavities are lined by surfaces which represent, on the one hand, the walls of lymph-spaces, on the other the free surfaces of the body exposed to the air, as the mucous or cutaneous surfaces and the pulmonary surface.
When this fusion is accomplished the cells become hollowed, their cavities communicating with those of the blood-vessels.
When hemorrhage does attend malarial fevers, it may occur from one or another of a variety of surfaces or into shut cavities or in parenchymatous structures.
The undue accumulation of the transudation in the various closed cavities of the body is known as dropsy, and the fluid present is regarded as an effusion or an exudation.
This tissue is variously designated, as the inflammatory process is limited to the surfaces of the body exposed to the air, or the surfaces of cavities and organs, or as it lies within organs or the deep-seated parts of the body.
Hemorrhages from the mucous cavities take place, and the patient dies in convulsions or sinks into fatal coma.
When we are about to bring each injection to a close it is well to press together the nasal cavities for an instant with the fingers.
All the cavities contain white firm clots along with soft dark clots.
I have seen recovery ensue in cases where I was obliged to bore through the occluded nasal cavities with probes and scoops.
Fibrinous exudations are therefore frequent and abundant in cellular and serous (sero-cellular) inflammation of the great serous cavities of the body.
Here and there at the side of this central chamber are openings in the wall which lead into small cavities used as sleeping-places.
Clarke noticed among the pebbles near the Lake of Tiberias pieces of a porous rock resembling the substance called toadstone in England; its cavities were filled with zeolite.
In a Memoir on Babylon, by the late Mr. Rich, it is stated that great quantities of porcupine-quills were found on the spot; and that in most of the cavities are numbers of bats and owls.
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To what series of cavities in the frog are the metapleural canals to be compared?
The cavitiesin these in these vesicles are continuous with a hollow running through the spinal cord.
In this way, the cavities of the smaller vessels and capillaries are formed, and the products of the internal divisions of the cells become the corpuscles within the vessels.
Give figures showing the condition of the heart and great arteries in these animals, and indicate in each case the nature of the blood in the several cavities of the heart.
The animals contained in this family live in cavities bored by themselves in rocks, wood, &c.
It is sometimes merely callous; but in many cases it has raised teeth in both valves, those in one valve entering into corresponding cavities in the other.
The Saxicavae are found in the little hollows of rocks; in cavities on the backs of oysters, of roots of sea-weeds, &c.
And cough by the same state in the lining of the vessels and cavities of the chest.
Besides quartz crystals, others of calcareous spar are sometimes found in the cavities of geodes.
Cavities are now and then hollowed out of rocks by the gyration in them of little fragments of stone or grains of sand kept in motion by the wind.
Fill cavities with sugar and drop one-fourth teaspoon butter on top of each, sprinkle with cinnamon, sprinkle round one-half cup sugar and pour on one cup cold water.
Shape with a cone mold and place in seed cavities of halves of cantaloupe.
Drain from syrup and fill the cavities with quince jelly and stick apples thickly with blanched and shredded almonds slightly toasted.
They may also become cellular--form zeolites in their cavities with foliated carbonate of lime, as well as minerals which commonly occur in amygdaloid.
There they began to excavate cavities or niches in the face of the rock, all placed on the same level, and successively enlarged.
These cavitiesform natural glaciers, which we again find upon some of the table-lands of the Jura.
The cavities of the eyes were filled with matter, either argillaceous or animal, such as still occupied a part of the cavity of the cranium.
Medicines which cause the removal of water from any of the cavities of the body.
The sexual organs of the rock weed, as we have already seen, are borne in special cavities (conceptacles) in the enlarged ends of some of the branches.
Often these cavities are of sufficient size to be visible to the naked eye, and examined with a hand lens the section appears like a piece of fine lace, each mesh being one of the chambers visible when more strongly magnified.
On opening, the cavities of the adjacent sporangia are thrown together.
On some of the plants thesecavities are filled with an orange-yellow mass; in others there are a number of roundish olive-brown bodies large enough to be easily seen.
The thicker cell walls and therefore the heavier wood shrinks most, while the water in the cell cavities does not influence the volume of the wood.
With the soaking it continues to increase in weight, the cell cavities filling with water, and if left many months all pieces sink.
These cell walls in the green wood completely surround the cell cavitiesso that there are no openings large enough to offer a passage to water or air.
The cavities of the cells include, in the form of little drops, a considerable quantity of aromatic volatile oil, on the presence of which the fragrance and many of the active principles of the berry depend" (see fig.
The mesothoracic epimera bound the coxal cavities of the intermediate legs.
This tribe is distinguished from the Malacoderma and allied groups by the mesothoracic epimera not bounding the coxal cavities of the intermediate legs.
When it prepares to leap, our larva first erects itself upon its anus, and then bending itself into a circle by bringing its head to its tail, it pushes forth its unguiform mandibles, and fixes them in two cavities in its anal tubercles.
Other cavities communicate by a very narrow tunnel.
The pearls which had been inserted in the cavities representing the eyes, were in this instance found retaining their places.
These were retained in their place by firmly lashing the separated wood together, and filling the cavitieswith some hard variety of gum.
There are a number of large cavitiesin it, which were once supposed to be artificial, and the entrances to subterranean chambers.
Let us now take the case of two incisors with lateral cavities approximating one another.
If one looks closely, however, they may readily be observed hopping about like miniature fleas or wriggling deftly into the cavities of the snow.
The character of the inner slopes shows that much rocky material has been detached and has fallen into the cavities from which it was ejected.
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