But they have so many plants and flowers in the windows that I don't see how they can see anything outdoors.
And in every home, large or small, there were many plants in the windows, where they could get the sunshine.
It is sufficient now to call attention to the fact that these vital processes, in either plants or animals, are essentially chemical in character, and subject to study by the usual methods of biochemical investigations.
But, on the other hand, there is experimental evidence to show thatplants possess some means of varying their pigmentation in response to the character of the light which comes to them.
Their most characteristic difference from the pigments of non-aquatic plants is that they are easily soluble in water, and insoluble in most organic solvents, such as alcohol, ether, etc.
Many other points of similarity in the chemistry of the life processes of plants and animals will become apparent as the study progresses.
But they are developed in only a few particular species of plants and are always present in these plants in fairly constant quantities.
Dextrins= may occur in plants as transition products in the transformation of starch into sugars, or vice versa.
A piece of acacia tree was put in the bottom to serve as a keel, to which plants were joined, being first sewed together, then gathered up at the ends and stern, and the ends of the plant tied fast there.
He took it up again, but the further he walked the oftener was he obliged to stop; for Mr. Scott had considered more the size of the pots that his plants required, than the strength of the carrier.
Your mother herself doesn't know why her plants grow; it takes a philosopher and a writer for the 'Atlantic' to tell her what the cause is.
He deplores the ignorance of Tull in asserting that plants feed on earth; air and water alone, in his opinion, furnish the supply of plant-food.
Goldsmith said, "I think our friend Abercrombie can write better about plants than I can.
I looked under the broken roofage of the boughs upon a blossoming jungle of shrubs and plants which seemed to have been called into life by a more potent sun.
Not that any of theseplants are really evergreen in the stricter sense that most people imagine.
The plants of the moor are indeed unlike such pampered odalisques of the deep banks and rich lowlands.
In a very few weeks you will find the lowland plants have grown tall and lush, while the poor distanced heather has been overtopped and crowded out by its sturdier competitors.
Cultivation means merely digging out the native herbs, and keeping them out, once ousted, in favour of other plants which we choose to protect against all their rivals.
Such plants resemble rather a funnel than an umbrella.
In order to do this it must lay by material the summer before, and that material the prudent plants bury deep out of harm’s way, in their creeping underground rootstock.
The ground is green with tiny baby plants of prickly cleavers and ivy-leaved veronica.
All plants which grow in the same way, half trailing, half climbing, have leaves of similar shape.
One plan is that invented by plants like rhubarb, which have channelled leaves with grooved leaf-stalks, conducting all the water that falls upon their surface centrally towards the root.
These plants evidently flourished around the shores of the lakes and lagoons in which their remains were buried along with the other forms of life.
This distinction is of some practical importance for it indicates the protecting power of wet soil in favour of young plants as against night frost.
Each of the thousand little plants that spring up at our feet, has an interest and beauty to the botanist; the mineralogist would find something to engage him in every little stone.
The plants are propagated by planting a small cutting from the upper part of the root with the leaves adhering.
When he had straightened out the confusion he saw that the human beings could be divided just as the animals and plants into large classes, orders and families according to the basis chosen.
For, the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely.
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward toward consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
These islets, which are raised only from 10 to 12 feet above the level of the sea, are a mere mass of coral and shells with a very small variety of plants struggling to establish themselves upon some of them.
Those plants which grow in a stiff soil cannot be dug up by their implements without great difficulty in the heat of the dry season, but those which grow in a loose sandy soil can be obtained at all times.
I was rather surprised to find a few plants of the common groundsel on one of the barest.
The habits of the turtle are to swim lazily along near the surface of the water, about half immersed, biting and smelling at the various aquatic plants which they pass, and turning their long ungainly necks in all directions.
With that I lets him through, plants him in a chair, and goes in to the boss.
You can bet I plants myself in the door and calls for credentials!
But Mildred was sore on the yacht and all the stupid folks on it; so she wanders out to windward of the worst smells, plants herself on the flattest rock she can find, and prepares to read.
In plants it is the blossom which is entrusted with the function of reproduction, and the odorous emanations accompanying that process are well known.
Neither can he appraise the factories and other plants in the United States--to say nothing of the rest of the world--in which the high pressure steam engine forms the motive power.
Therefore, where delicate chemical operations were necessary for success, practice generally failed from want of knowledge on the part of the operator, and many times extensive plants have been pronounced useless from this cause alone.
Similarly among plants a cut-off portion may readily give rise to new plants--a potato-tuber is one of hundreds of instances.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
Among plants there are many beautiful and instructive examples of the relative position of the female and the male plant.
Mr. Dale was arranging someplants on a shelf across one of the windows, and Helen was watching him.
Around this tree or bush which serves as axis, the bird places a little moss, then he plants slantwise the branches of a plant which will continue to grow for some time; juxtaposition of branches form the inclined walls of the hut.
He plants rushes, green sprigs, for he is small, about the size of a blackbird; he bends them into a vault, often a metre long.
All plants of a higher order can live only on the remains of those of a lower, and it is most interesting to note the process by which each lower form comes, does its work, passes on, and is replaced by a superior type.
Any encyclopaedia or botany will tell you how plants are fertilized.
By the way, the funny thing is that, while the bacteria that live on roots of the legumes are plants and not animals, most of them do move about.
All plantsgrowing around the nest--which is also called the granary--the ants cut away, so clearing a space for 10 or 12 feet.
When this sugar-making has gone on long enough the ants bring all the plants out into the sun and let them lie there until they are nice and dry.
Then remember what the ever-changing material on the surface of these immortal grains is made of; the dust particles of plants and animals, of buried Caesars and still older ancients, such as those early settlers of Chapter II.
The immediate purpose of ploughing is to loosen the soil so that the roots of the plants can get their food and air more easily.
And, it isn't alone what we do for the plants we belong to, but for the soil, for other plants and roots that come after we're dead and gone.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
I almost think, and this, I believe may be a great fundamental fact, that the only reason why animals rule the world instead of plants is that plantselected to stay at home, and animals did not.
Plants throw out roots and boughs and leaves: this is a kind of locomotion; and as Dr.
Why have plants their tinted flowers, but to entice the insects there?
The general structure ofplants is so simple in comparison with that of animals that our remarks upon this sub-kingdom need only be short.
Nevertheless, like many other heretics, plants have thriven very fairly well.
It is much more true to say that plants have descended from animals than animals from plants.
These facts are too patent to need much illustration; for our zonale geraniums, ribbon grasses, and beautiful-leaved plants generally, are now so common that everyone knows their character.
Footnote 11: The advocates of the development-theory allude to the metamorphosis of animals and plants as supporting their view of a change of one species into another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: botany; greens; vegetation; verdure
