The fertilization of such spawn must be accidental, but as the milt and the eggs sink or drift together the number that come into fertilizing contact is no doubt considerable.
But to deny, as some writers have done, that the slime has anyfertilizing properties at all, is as great a error as the opposite one of ascribing all the agricultural wealth of Egypt to that single cause of productiveness.
This growth undoubtedly considerably exceeds that of trees of the same species in the natural forest, though the transplanted trees had received no other fertilizing application than an unlimited supply of light and air.
When the sand ceases to drift, the arundo dies, its decaying roots fertilizing the sand, and the decomposition of its leaves forming a layer of vegetable earth over it.
At convenient periods, the unhealthy stocks and those injured by wind or other accidents are removed, and in some instances the growth of the remainder is promoted by irrigation or by fertilizing applications.
Boussingault observes that rain-water is vastly more fertilizing than the water of irrigating canals, and therefore the supply of the latter must be greater.
The early history of this fertilizing cell, which is composed of infinitesimal molecules which contain the embryo powers of life, is only partially written.
Its fertilizingproperty depends on the presence of minute bodies, termed spermatozoa.
Fertilizing Much care is taken in fertilizing the irrigated sementeras.
It is said that in some sections of Igorot land dry vegetable matter is burned so that ash may be had for fertilizing purposes.
The labor of turning and fertilizing the soil and transplanting the young rice is all in progress at the same time -- generally, too, in the same sementera.
A fine stream, bearing the same name as the town, serpentines through the valley, fertilizing it by a deposit of rich soil, swept from the sides of the Sierras of Loxa and Alhama.
Where the fertilizing stream flows amongst the vineyards of Xeres, it probably has often proved so without any fable.
Both the female element, the ovum, and the male fertilizing body, the sperma or spermatozoa, are simple cells.
This is the sole means, in the land-dwelling animals, by which the fertilizing element can reach the released ova (which usually takes place in the uterus in man).
They consist of shallow beds of rich soil, which want only the fertilizing power of water to render them most productive.
Its velocity is about three miles an hour as it flows on, watering and fertilizing the land of Egypt throughout its entire length.
Until the discovery of these deposits, in 1861, the use of potash as a fertilizing constituent was very limited, being confined practically to the employment of wood ashes.
On the whole, the best classification to attempt is that according to the fertilizing constituents which each principally supplies, and this will be adopted here, with the necessary qualifications.
But if dung be kept for a length of time in shallow heaps, or in open straw-yards and exposed to rain, it loses by drainage a considerable proportion of its most valuable soluble fertilizing constituents.
Whatever it be, the word "manure" is now generally applied to anything which is used for fertilizing the soil.
They, further, present the expensive fertilizingmatters in a concentrated form, and by their application save expense in labour.
Occasionally they are prepared with the addition of other fertilizing materials and made up as special manures.
Of course all kinds of double cropping require that extra attention be given to the tilling and fertilizing of the plantation.
Experiments are yet inconclusive on the fertilizing of apple-trees, but it is fair to assume that on most lands, particularly on old lands, the addition of chemical fertilizer is advantageous.
It seems to the writer that if the substance extracted by Robertson were the real fertilizing agent contained in the spermatozoon it should fertilize the egg without a previous sensitization of the egg with SrCl{2} being required.
We shall show first that species if sufficiently separated are generally incompatible with each other and that any attempt at fusing or mixing them by grafting or cross-fertilizing is futile.
From this the writer concluded that the fertilizing power depends on a rapidly reversible action of the alkali on the surface of the two gametes.
Godlewski succeeded by the same method in fertilizing the eggs of a Naples starfish with the sperm of a crinoid.
He is the body of a living person, the creator of the tree which bears fruit, the causer of fertilizing overflows.
Along the canal squeaking sweeps moved up and down, with buckets of fertilizing water; fruit-gatherers appeared and disappeared among the trees, like colored butterflies.
In the first place his knowledge of fertilizing materials suitable for the soil enables him to produce vegetables not only in abundance, but of the best quality.
He reduces all fertilizing matter to liquid form, and industriously applies it by hand, destroying each insect pest with his fingers.
Here a fertilizing virtue is clearly supposed to be inherent in the stick and to be conveyed by contact to the women.
For more evidence of the supposed fertilizing influence of bells, see P.
I believe in fertilizing the ground, but not too close to the trees; it won't hurt any soil.
If the fertility and productiveness of the orchard is to be kept up, these fertilizing elements must be returned in some form.
At the market value of these fertilizing materials, it amounts annually to about twelve dollars an acre.
I believe in fertilizing with stable litter; think it keeps the orchard thrifty and more fruitful.
The virgin soil of our county does not need fertilizing if planted in orchard until the tree comes into bearing, except we crop the land.
I believefertilizing pays, although I have not tried it.
I believe fertilizing would be good, but my orchard is too large to practice it.
I believe in fertilizing orchards on all prairie soils with barn-yard litter.
Now two or three rocks lay near the reef, that were covered with this deposit, the birds still hovering about them, and he proposed to take the dingui, and go in quest of a little of that fertilizing manure.
These ashes were deep enough for any agricultural purpose, it is true, for Mark could work a crowbar down into them its entire length; but they appeared to him to be totally wanting in the fertilizing principle.
Boussingault observes that rain water is vastly more fertilizing than the water of irrigating canals, and therefore the supply of the latter must be greater.
At convenient periods afterward, the unhealthy stocks and those injured by wind or other accidents are removed, and in some instances the growth of the remainder is promoted by irrigation or by fertilizing applications.
But to deny, as some writers have done, that the slime has anyfertilizing properties at all, is as great an error as the opposite one of ascribing all the agricultural wealth of Egypt to that single cause of productiveness.
From what vast store of rich earth does this river derive the three or four inches of fertilizing material which it spreads over the soil of Egypt every hundred years?
It appears to be a provision of nature, that the muriate of soda, or common salt, should be a neutral substance with respect to fertilizing the soil.
For if it possessed any degree of fertilizing powers, its effect would be seen on our sea-coasts; and its utility, by this time, would have been decisively proved by experiment as well as accident.
The fertilizing principle is not to be forgotten even in tropical regions.
Bounded on the east by the Red Sea, on the north by the Mediterranean, while the fertilizing Nile afforded inland communication, Egypt became the most prosperous and civilized country of the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fertilizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
