Tests with white lupins gave no conclusive results, as for some reason it proved very difficult to get satisfactory plants in water cultures.
Lupins and Phaseolus are presumably able to eliminate in six weeks all the arsenious acid they can absorb without dying.
The lupins grown with boron are very active in the putting forth of lateral roots, so much so that the cortex of the roots is split along the line of emergence of the laterals, which are very numerous and crowded.
It was here, on the slopes of the open fields and on the dry sides of the long embankment, that we saw the faded remnants of the beauty with which the lupins had surrounded Watermouth a few days ago.
But the river called us away from the remembrance of the lupins to follow the promise of the laurels.
VI-12] It was principally used as food for cattle, and not without reason, if it be true that twenty pounds of lupins are sufficient to fatten an ox.
One day the Madonna was carrying the Bambino through a lupin-field, and the stalks of the lupins rustled so, that she thought it was a robber coming to kill the Santo Bambino.
When she saw there was no one hidden there, she sent a benediction over the lupin-field, and the lupins all stood up straight again, fair and flourishing, and with tenfold greater produce than they had at the first.
She turned, and sent a malediction over the lupin-field, and immediately the lupins all withered away and fell flat and dry on the ground, so that she could see there was no one hidden there.
After much experimenting, he made the important discovery that lupins which had nodules would grow in soil devoid of nitrogen, and that lupins which had no nodules would not grow in the same soil.
Dear me, these lupins should have been cut back a fortnight ago.
Michael found Mrs. Carthew in her sun-coloured garden, cutting down the withering lupins whose silky seed-pods were strewn all about the paths.
There's no lower step to stand on, No more burning shame to feel: Not a crust to lay my hand on, Only lupins for a meal!
Alexis says-- A curse upon the man; Let him not come near me, who eats lupins in season, And then leaves the husks and shells in the vestibule.
Diphilus the Siphnian writer says that lupins are very apt to create moisture, and are very nutritious, especially those kinds which are rendered sweet by being soaked.
Polemo says, that the Lacedæmonians call lupins =lysilaides=.
His eyes looked away over the blue spires of the lupins to the naked hillside.
They came to a standstill at the south wall where the tall blue lupins rose between them, vivid in the tender air and very still.
Then the equinoctial tide rises against the land that the lupins have taken and smooths out their lovely gardens with a swift, white hand, to leave the beach smooth again for the building of pale, wind-pointed cones.
For miles back into the valleys of Pajaro and Salinas, blue and yellow lupins continue the colour of the sand and the pools of tide water.
Channel fishermen still, in spite of the obliterating crops, can trace the blue lines of lupins between faint streaks of poppy fires, and catch above the reek of their boats, when the land wind begins, blown scents of islay and ceanothus.
The yellow fields of lupins are so gorgeous on cloudless days that I have neglected the forests lately and drive in the open, so that I may revel in their scent while feasting my eyes on their beauty.
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