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Example sentences for "moist soil"

  • Red maple (Acer rubrum) Shows pleasing colors at all seasons; grows best in a fairly rich, moist soil.

  • It grows rapidly in moist soil and is not fastidious in its light requirements.

  • For instance, the Giant Comfrey will grow six feet high in rich or moist soil in a partially shaded ditch, and therefore, once fairly started, might be trusted to take care of itself in any position.

  • Your beautiful Trillium grandiflorum is usually seen here in a poor state; but I have seen a plant in a shady position in a shrubbery, in rich, moist soil, quite two feet through and two feet high.

  • Rake the surface of the bed even, make the rows across the bed about eight inches apart, sow the seed rather thinly, and cover about one-fourth of an inch deep with fine, moist soil.

  • Select a rich, moist soil, pulverize it well, and rake the surface smooth.

  • All of the sorts thrive best in rich, moist soil; but may be grown in almost any soil or situation.

  • Crisp, tender radishes with delicate flavor are only obtained by quick growth on rich, moist soil.

  • It is most at home in a moist soil, flourishing in swampy places unfit for almost any other useful grass, and it also has ability to withstand severe drought.

  • It grows in moist soil, especially along streams, from Indiana to Iowa and Missouri, south to Kentucky and Texas.

  • They may be planted in any position or simply laid on the surface of moist soil.

  • Young plants may be transplanted at any season; also the species can be grown from cuttings and planted in the spring in moist soil.

  • Plant mature cuttings of one joint six inches deep in moist soil early in spring and water about once a month to keep the soil lightly moist.

  • How to grow Set cuttings about a foot long in moist soil, and water weekly; or lay the stems down and cover with moist sand or soil.

  • Prefers rich, moist soil on river-banks and on the borders of cold swamps; rocky hillsides and mountains.

  • Prefers rich, moist soil; bottom-lands; but is tolerant of many soils.

  • Prefers a rich, moist soil, but grows well on dry, gravelly or sandy soils.

  • They should be given well enriched, moist soil, and be mulched through hot weather.

  • Cauliflower prospers best in moist soil and a cool climate.

  • The one essential to the successful growing of Blackberries is a moist soil,--not one in which water will stand, but one rich enough in humus to hold sufficient moisture to carry the crop through the growing season.

  • It is suited only to very vigorous varieties such as Emperor, Almeria, and the Persian grapes when growing far apart in rich, moist soil.

  • Otherwise there is nothing more suitable or more favorable to the formation of a good union that can be put around the graft than loose, moist soil.

  • The vines will strike root best in the freshly turned, moist soil of newly dug earth, which can be firmly set about the roots when the vine is planted.

  • Slip=, a cutting placed in water or moist soil or other substance to produce roots and form a new plant.

  • Cutting=, a part of a plant placed in moist soil, water or other medium with the object of its producing roots and making a new plant.

  • Plant several kernels of corn in moist soil in a glass tumbler or jar.

  • At last, away they sail, to start new trees if they fall in moist soil.

  • This native laurel, lover of rich, moist soil, deserves the place in cultivation more commonly granted its European cousin, Laurus nobilis, Linn.

  • Its chosen habitat is rocky uplands, where the fleshy roots can find moist soil.

  • Sassafras trees grow readily from seed in any loose, moist soil.

  • Labiatæ, native of Europe and parts of Asia, found wild and naturalized throughout the civilized world in strong, moist soil on the borders of ponds and streams.

  • It has been known as an escape from American gardens for about 200 years, and is sometimes troublesome as a weed in moist soil.

  • Three or four inches of moist soil is worked in among and over them and watered freely as soon as growth starts.

  • It prefers a moist soil, but adapts itself to dry situations.

  • It is adapted to a moist soil, grows rapidly, and produces a dense shade.

  • It is always found in moist soil, except in the hilly counties where it may be found on wooded slopes or on high rocky bluffs bordering streams.

  • The cottonwood is adapted to a moist soil, propagates easily, grows rapidly and is one of the best trees for forestry purposes for planting overflow lands, and for planting where a quick shade is desired or for temporary windbreaks.

  • Unless high culture or moist soil is given, I do not recommend it for market.

  • Any crust forming after a rain, is broken, and fresh, moist soil drawn up about the plant.

  • From ten to fifteen seeds should be scattered uniformly over this area, and covered with about half an inch of fine, moist soil.

  • In moist soil; river banks and basins, shores of lakes, not uncommon in drier locations.

  • Generally found in somewhat sheltered situations in sandy loam or in low, moist soil in the vicinity of water.

  • Hardy throughout New England, and will grow, when not shaded, in almost any dry or moist soil.

  • Seating themselves on the winds when autumn gales shake them from out of the home wall, these little hairy scales ride afar, and those that are so fortunate as to strike into soft, moist soil at the end of the journey, germinate.

  • In moist soil throughout a very broad northerly and westerly range it climbs and trails its graceful way, with the help of the tendrils on the tips of leaves compounded of from eight to fourteen oblong, blunt, and veiny leaflets.


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