We have a variety of soils, from a sandyloam to a stiff clay, and are certain that lime will pay on all or any of them.
We camped there, where the loam was trampled and torn by countless herds of bison, and had only parched corn and the remains of a buffalo steak for supper, as the meal was mouldy from its wetting, and running low.
And then, one morning when the three of us were turning over the blackloam in the patch, while the baby slept peacefully in the shade, a sound came to our ears that made us pause and listen with bated breath.
They grow best in loam and peat equal quantities, with a little sand.
They are hardy greenhouse plants, and thrive best in light loam mixed with sand and peat, but will do well in light soil without the peat.
A mixture of turfy loam and sandy peat is best, but when not available, leaf mold or a rich mellow soil mixed with silver sand will do.
My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Increased sometimes by seeds, but usually by cuttings, which will root if placed under a hand-glass in a compost of equal parts loam and peat, with enough sand to render the whole porous.
If good loam to which has been added a little well-rotted manure is used, the seeds or nuts of hardy trees and shrubs may be allowed to germinate and grow for one season in the flats.
Increased by seed, sown singly as soon as ripe in three or four-inch pots, in sandy loam and leaf-mould.
Increased by seeds and by cuttings, which thrive well in a compost of loam and peat.
These should always be sown in a brisk bottom heat, in a mixture of coarse loam and sand.
Propagated by cuttings of young wood made in spring, placed in a compost of loam and peat, or sand, under a bell-glass, in heat.
Propagated by cuttings made of the young wood, and placed in a compost of loam and peat with a little rotten dung, under a bell-glass, in stove temperature with bottom heat.
They should be potted carefully in a mixture of sandyloam and peat, with good drainage, and kept tolerably warm and close until established; water sparingly until root action has commenced.
Propagated by seeds, or by cuttings of half-ripened wood in sandy loam in August, and shaded until rooted.
Increased by cuttings of ripened shoots placed in sandy loam under a hand-glass, in moderate heat.
Ordinarily, fresh horse manure, cow manure and good loam are mixed together in about equal proportions, enough water being added to render the material of the consistency of mortar.
A favorite method of handling them is to sow them in a pot of loose and sandy loam which is set inside a larger pot, the intermediate space being filled with moss, to which, alone, the water is applied.
They should be sown thinly in pans (a mixture of sand and leaf-loam is best for them), and a covering of one and one-half or two inches of earth is not excessive.
The tuber is laid upon a sandy or other loose bed, and is then covered with sand or sandy loam to a depth of one or two inches.
As the water drains away, the loam and chalk will become fixed closely round the bulbs, and they will remain alive and grow.
In this way all those kinds growing in chalk may be made to grow; but such as the Orchis moryo, maculata, and pyramidalis, may be grown in loam alone, planted in pots in the common way.
If we could get a Republican Congress, that block o' pine and blackloam twenty miles north would be given to its rightful owners.
Twenty miles to the north lies plenty for every needy inhabitant of the town, lies a bit of loam and heaven-kissing pines for each and all.
The plants grow readily from seed sown in sandy loam in flats with part shade and watered sufficiently to keep the soil lightly moist.
Plants grow easily from seed in a sandy loam in flats, with part shade and with enough water to keep the soil slightly moist.
How to grow Little is known about growing this species under cultivation; it transplants readily at almost any season and thrives in sandy or gravelly loam with occasional irrigation to keep the soil moist during dry periods.
They may be grown from seed in sandy loam in flats with sufficient water to keep the soil moist.
The seeds grow readily if planted in May or June in sandy loam in flats in part shade with enough water to keep the soil slightly moist.
They grow easily from seed in moist sandy soil or clay loam with part shade, and preferably in cooler climates.
They grow easily from seed in sandy or clay loam in flats or pots with some shade; transplant at any season in almost any soil; give enough water to keep the soil moist during dry spells, about five gallons of water at a time.
They grow well in any ordinary soil, preferably gravelly loam or rocky soil, and should be watered once a month to keep the soil moist during the growing season.
Sow the seed in fine sandy loam in flats or pots in part shade, and water enough to keep the soil lightly moist.
Field plants may be transplanted at almost any season in gravelly or clay loam soils and given enough water to moisten the soil during dry spells.
Plants grow easily from seed in sandy loam in flats or pots in part shade.
They thrive best in heavy clay loamwith light irrigation once a month until well established.
It thrives in sandy or gravelly clay loam with sunny exposures, and with occasional irrigation to moisten the soil during dry periods and during the growing season.
How to grow Set out plants at any season, preferably in the spring, in sandy or gravelly clay loam in part shade and give some irrigation monthly to keep the soil moist.
Sow the seed in June in sandy loam with enough water to keep the soil lightly moist, and give part shade.
Or they may be grown readily from seed sown in sandy loam in flats or pots, with partial shade and with enough water to keep the soil moist.
A comparatively few cones are buried in the soft loam beneath the trees; the rest are stuffed into holes beneath the spreading roots or simply piled in heaps near the base of the trunk.
Burrows usually are constructed in deep loam or alluvial soils.
Illustration: Habitat map] Habitat: Soft loam in the open places in the high mountains.
Then putting some Windsor loam in the grooves of the cover B, lay that on: trying the sliding plates Y Y, to see if they move freely in the grooves Z Z, V V, designed for them.
The particular aromatic flavor comes from those growing in clay loam and abundant leaf mold of the forest.
A rich, dark sandyloam is the most desirable soil for the crop, which requires shade during growth.
The fibrous roots, if stratified in sand loam in the autumn, will produce fine plants.
The soil is a sandy loam and in exposure and quality naturally adapted to the growth of this plant.
Habitat and Range--Blue Cohosh is found in the deep rich loam of shady woods from New Brunswick to South Carolina, westward to Nebraska, being abundant especially thruout the Allegheny Mountain region.
Suppose I had cut those roots up into pieces for propagation, and stratified them in boxes of sandy loam through the winter, and when the buds formed on them carefully set them in well prepared beds.
The other forest garden is in an upland grove with moderate drain, clay loam and plenty of leaf mold; the trees are thin and trimmed high.
Ginseng thrives best in wood loam soil that is cool and mellow, although any good vegetable garden soil will do very well.
The broad, black belts of loam await with open pockets the hiding of the golden grain.
When the more level country is reached it becomes a gently undulating plain, rich black loam and very productive.
These should be nearly, but not quite, filled with a rich compost of rotten manure, and sandy loam or peat.
For the more robust kinds, the proportion of loam and of manure should be greater.
The bestloam is that composed of thoroughly rotted turf.
If the soil is naturally poor, dig it out to the width and depth of three feet, and replace it with a mixture of strong loam and old manure.
The virgin soil was a dense yellow loam of considerable depth; and, by the operation of "trenching," it was thoroughly mixed and incorporated with the black surface soil.
Whereas the sand and the loam will remain in fairly good condition when dry, the clay will have become "puddled," i.
To show the importance of the surface mulch, fill several pots with a sandy loam soil, putting the same weight of soil into each pot.
The soil should be rich, sandy loam if possible; if not, the best you can get, to which add about one-fourth the bulk of sand and mix thoroughly.
The soil for this plant should be a mixture of two parts of rich loam and two parts composed of peat, leaf-mould, and sand.
When young, it should be potted in equal parts of loam and vegetable mould, with a little sand; the pot to be well drained, and water given liberally during the growing season.
A mixture of free sandy loam and peat, well-drained ground, and an airy position are necessary.
A somewhat shaded position and a very moist deep loam are necessary to the vigorous growth of this plant, which will prove effective in the rougher parts of the pleasure-ground.
Plant in a mixture of peat soil and free loamat the end of May.
It seems much to prefer deep sandy soils to heavy ones; indeed, I have known it refuse to grow on heavy clay soil, and flourish most luxuriantly on a deep sandy loam in the same district.
They root readily in a compost of loam and silver-sand if kept close and sprinkled for a short time.
The soil, a strong or medium loam of fair depth, resting on clay, is so well adapted to plums that trees live for fifty years.
Dry muck or loam should be mixed with it to serve as an absorbent and to give good physical condition.
The limitations of the value of manure and commercial fertilizers applied to land that has a lime deficiency have illustration in an experiment reported by the Cornell station: The soil was once a fertile loam that had become very poor.
Thoroughly incorporate at the bottom of the hill a quantity of well-digested compost, equal to three-fourths of the earth removed; and then add sufficient fine loam to raise the hill two or three inches above the surrounding level.
Any good gardenloam is adapted to the growth of the Scolymus.
A well-digested compost, formed of barnyard manure, loam and salt, makes the best fertilizer.
The rich loam which forms the upland soil of this state is of a very slight depth--and after a few years is worn away by constant culture and the action of the winds and rain.
For golf greens and lawn-tennis courts situated on light soil, loam is an indispensable dressing.
All the forenoon this blizzard of loam raged, filling the house with dust, almost smothering the cattle in the stable.
Several of these Russian villages were visible in the landscape, and the brown loam had been exposed by the plough.
It was half-past four o'clock; we made our way over lofty uplands, of which the moistloam held our carriage-wheels.
A gravelly or sandy loamis generally preferred for orchards; yet I have known them to flourish and bear generously on heavy clay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dirt; earth; ground; land; mould; soil
