The plant requires a light, dry, sandy soil; and a portion, at least, of the crop is expected to stand through the winter.
It thrives in a cool climate, with partial shade in high summer, and in a rich, moist, sandy soil.
Select an open spot, make a foundation of any hard rubbish that is at hand, and on this put one to two feet of sandy soil.
In a dry hot season, and on a sandy soil, Portulacas can be grown as easily as Cress.
The Bladder Sennas are of very free growth, even in poor, sandy soil, and being highly ornamental, whether in flower or fruit, are to be recommended for extensive cultivation.
To grow it satisfactorily a dry, sandy soil is a necessity.
It grows in sandy soil, and is a native of Canada.
It is inclined to be of rather upright growth, is stout and bushy, and is readily increased from cuttings planted insandy soil in the open border.
The valleys which penetrate into the sandstone supporting these trap rocks, have usually a sandy soil, while that of the more elevated portions, though inconsiderable in quantity, is not sandy nor intermixed with pebbles or gravel.
The small point of land on which we encamped has a sandy soil, and is thinly covered with cotton-wood, intermixed with the aspen poplar (P.
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
The McCoy Nursery was about four miles from my place, and located in a sandy soil with a near quicksand sub-soil.
Carl Weschcke reports that chestnuts do best for him at River Falls, Wisconsin, in sandy soil with an acid reaction.
I bought this abandoned swampy, rocky, sandy soil farm of 72 acres, to show how it can be done on land too rough for the plow.
The large yellow lupine is a common plant upon our wind-swept mesas, growing in sandy soil.
They love a sandy soil, and I have seen them flourishing in the disintegrated granite of old river-beds, where the dazzling whiteness of the stones was hardly distinguishable from the blossoms.
The delicate blue flowers of the toad-flax are not uncommon in spring, and the plants are usually found in sandy soil.
I prefer bottom land having a sandy soil and a clay subsoil, with a north slope.
I prefer bottom, sandy soil, clay subsoil, and a northwest slope.
It is a highly valuable apple for the table or kitchen, and the tree thrives well on light, sandy soil, being a native of the banks of the Delaware.
A light, sandy soil should be given only a small application, as otherwise physical condition may be injured.
Improved physical condition is likewise given to a sandy soil, the humus binding the particles together.
When fresh sawdust is applied in large quantity to a sandy soil, the effect upon physical condition is bad, increasing drouthiness.
While burning the stone does not affect the ability to correct acidity, it does increase the power to make a stiff soil friable and to bind a sandy soil.
How came these isolated colonies of a species so subterranean in habits, and requiring a sandy soilto move in, so far from their proper district--that sterile country from which they are separated by wide, unsuitable areas?
That this is the case has been proved by planting the unripe "fruit" of Opuntias in pots of sandy soil, and treating them as cuttings, when they have developed buds at the apex and roots at the base, ultimately forming plants.
The tufted kinds are easily multiplied by separating the stems, or even by cutting off the tops and planting them in small pots of sandy soil.
They take kindly to anything between a sandy soil so loose as to be almost shifting, and heavy clay.
Sandy soil in the garden will produce early and quick results, and is especially adapted to melons, cucumbers, beans and a number of the other garden vegetables.
SANDY SOIL is, as the term implies, composed largely of sand, and is the reverse of clay soil.
If clay soil is obtainable nearby, a small area of sandy soil, such as is required for the garden, can be made into excellent soil by the addition of the former, applied as you would manure.
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