Separating one pound of the clean staple from the seed was a day's work for a woman; but the time usually devoted to picking cotton was the evening, after the labor of the field was over.
It is the stated task of one negro to clean fifty weight (I mean fifty pounds after it is separated from the seed) of the green cotton seed per day.
He modestly disclaimed all pretensions to mechanical genius; and when they named their object, he replied that he had never seen either cotton or cotton seed in his life.
Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the/ and thy seed after the/ in their tymes to be an everlastynge testament/ So that I wyll be God vnto the and to thy seed after the.
Let us geue hym wyne to drinke this nyghte also/ and goo thou and lye with him/ and let us saue seed of oure father.
Than sayde Iudas vnto Onan: goo in to thi brothers wyfe and Marie her/ and styrre vp seed vnto thy brother.
And thy seed shalbe as the dust of the erth: And thou shalt spreade abrode: west/ east/ north and south.
But of a troth his yonger brother shalbe greater than he/ and his seed shall be full of people.
And I wyll make thy seed/ as the dust of the erth: so that yf a ma can nombre the dust of the erth/ than shall thy seed also be nombred.
And thorow the and thy seed shall all the kynreddes of the erth be blessed.
And God sawe that it was good And God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe seed/ and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde/ havynge their seed in them selves vpon the erth.
And I will make my bonde with him/ that it shall be an everlastynge bonde vnto his seedafter him.
It is to sow them Upon my spirit, and make them spring a crowne 120 Worth millions of the seed crownes he will send.
Issachar Price had sowed the seed of jealousy in the mind of the assistant bookkeeper of Z.
Snow and Company, and that seed took root and grew as it is only too likely to do under such circumstances.
You must know," went on Thistle, "that there is no dainty in the world which we elves enjoy like a bowl of fern-seed broth.
No, the only way for mortal people to be invisible is to gather the fern-seed and put it in their shoes.
Here's the seedand the fennel, and here's the dew.
I never saw any seed to the ferns," said Toinette, staring about her.
Snow Bunting flew straight up to the piazza, and there stood a dear little girl in a warm hood and cloak, with a pail of bird-seed on her arm, and a dish of bread crumbs in her hand.
It is very simple," said Peascod; "only seedand honey dew, stirred from left to right with a sprig of fennel.
The first thing to be done was to get rid of the fern-seed which she now regarded as a hateful thing.
See, son of Cronos, I preserved, my gift; in my deepest heart grew the seedthat you sowed.
Like a caterpillar on the fields, you are gnawing away at the full seed of joy, exuding the slime of despair and sorrow.
I seed that the young baldies war every day gettin' bigger.
I seed that I ked easily snare them; an' I made up my mind to do this very thing; for a partickler purpuss which promised to extercate me out o' the ugly scrape I hed so foolishly got into.
As soon as I seedthar four wings in full play, I slid off the branch, directin' myself torst the groun' underneath.
I seed no more chance o' gittin' clur than wud a bar wi' a two-ton log across the small o' his back.
They seed that I did no harm to their chicks, 'ceptin' so far as to abstrack from 'em a portion o' thar daily allowance.
Unfortunately, Lilienthal's tactics exposed him to suspicion, and the seed of discord was soon sown between him and his former admirers.
It was before the removal of civil disabilities from one portion of the Jewish people had sowed the seed of arrogance toward the other less favored portion.
These warblers are often seen on the beaches and sand dunes eating the seeds of the beachgrass, or in open fields feeding on grass seed and doubtless various weed seeds.
Until then, to the eye of man only an occasional seed had burst its way through the stone-crusted earth and given a shadow of harvest hope.
He sowed many varieties of seed in plates filled with vegetable mould, which he deposited in the soil of the bed.
It is very common as a timber tree in England; but as it rarely produces seed it is questionable whether it is indigenous.
It does not produce suckers, like the English elm, but yields seed freely.
Flower-growing is extensively carried on in the neighbourhood, plants andseed being produced for sale in great quantities.
The dormant plantlet in a seed is also known as an embryo.
Raised from seed their flowering season is briefer, and, as the plants are comparatively inexpensive, it is well to get their full worth by setting out well-grown Salvia plants in early June.
The seed bed's important part it is to furnish fresh plants to take the place of such perennials and biennials as are winter-killed or have outlived their flowering time.
The radiate Foxglove declined the honor of reproduction; dropping its mottled petals, and slowly shrinking away without forming a seed pod!
A friend making a pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon brought me some seed supposedly from Anne Hathaway's garden.
The Canterbury Bell is, like the Foxglove, a biennial, and may be sown in the seed bed at the same time, or the self-sown plants may be used.
The young plants take kindly to removal, and may, with care, be changed from seed bed to border while flowering.
Tulips have been grown from the seedby the millions.
Most annuals may be sown in the seed bed, which is the necessary appendage to the show beds--indeed, all excepting the cosmos and poppy, which cannot well bear removal.
One may plant, in late April, kept-over bulbs or propagate from seed sown first of May, and sure to flower the same year.
With Moonflower I have failed, although I soaked the big seedover night and sowed with great care.
Sow Foxgloves in seed bed about last of April, and, late in September, transplant to their permanent place.
I find the Eupatorium's name in my seed catalogue.
From the seed of this enterprising digitalis (which bore at its apex a flower almost as flat as a daisy) I would develop a new variety--a radiate Foxglove.
The seed that in these few and fleeting hours Thy hands, unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
Daniel Boone had led an expedition there sixteen years earlier and may have planted the seed in the minds of those who stayed on, while he went on to Kentucky.
She could a-took my poke of seed corn, but there it is a-hangin' from the rafters.
The martyr type, whose blood is not only the seed of the church, but also of heresy, is touched with madness.
Boston had treated him well--the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church--he would stay.
I am told by a seedsman of the highest character that it is almost impossible to get grass seed clean and true to name from the ordinary sources; the leading men therefore have to grow their own.
Every year, in some bare places, I sow a littleseed of Erinus alpinus, always trying for places where it will follow some other kind of plant, such as a place where rock Pink or Alyssum has been.
But a few days before it was ready I went round and found the seed was all gone; it had been cut off at the top of the stalk, so that the umbel-shaped heads had been taken away whole.
The seed is sown in boxes in cold frames, and pricked out again into boxes when large enough to handle.
The turf has been raised and hollows filled in, grass seed sown in bare patches, and the whole beaten and rolled to a good surface, and the job put out of hand in good time before the leaves begin to fall.
This is also the time for pulling to pieces and replanting that good spring plant, the large variety of Myosotis dissitiflora; I always make sure of divisions, as seed does not come true.
And there seems to be a general wish among seed growers just now to dwarf all annual plants.
They once stole all my Auricula seed in the same way.
For the love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness.
Each mature bulb makes a host of offsets, and the seed quickly ripens.
During the following summer we collected seed of the same grasses to sow early in spring in any patchy or bare places.
The seed was ripening, and I watched it daily, awaiting the moment for harvesting.
Seed your camp-fire, and as it was thunderin,' we came right in.
The loose boards shook and trembled under the heavy feet, the scattered cotton seed whirled away in little eddies, and baskets of cotton standing about tipped a little break-down of their own.
A slim dark girl in a blue and white homespun dress, her head turbaned with a square of the same, sat on a bag of seed cotton watching them.
In sowing the seed he will not withhold his hand because there are thorns and stony places and waysides.
Seek most the best things; to ask for the best things is to have them; the seed of them is in you, or you could not ask for them.
