There are in South Africa and America a number of varieties of maize, but in India I only know of two sorts, in one of which the seeds are white and the other yellow, or a deep red colour.
The seeds are small, and of a dark or greyish colour.
The grass flowers and seeds at the end of the hot weather, about September, when the monsoon rains are on, and these sometimes last for days together.
They are both small oblong seeds of an olive green colour, with a very hard husk, and can be obtained in any bazaar.
Limitless acres of choicest apples in the Middle West sprang from the seeds which he scattered over that vast region.
He passed in and out among the fierce bucks, addressing the leaders by name, giving them handfuls of seeds and saying something pleasant to each.
Whoever his hosts might be he presented them with handfuls of seeds and made them promise to plant and tend the fruit.
One summer afternoon he landed on the shore of the Ohio, and with his plump bag of seeds over his shoulder, plunged into the woods.
Through those tunnels Master Meadow Mouse could look for seeds and grain in the stubble.
She taught him many things--how to find ripe seeds to eat, how to keep still as a mouse and not squeak when there was danger of any kind, and how to dodge into their tunnel when there was need.
Even Master Meadow Mouse began to find it harder and harder to get enough seeds under the snow to satisfy his hunger.
He spent a good deal of his time away from home, looking for seeds and grain.
Through the massive walls that mysterious sovereign still sows the seeds of treachery and enchantment.
The death of his father and the seeds of the pessimistic philosophy gave the inner life of the budding novelist a morose and pessimistic direction.
But the very fact that a vast portion of a people are disfranchised sows the seeds of continual and ever-recurring revolution and insurrection.
So Danny Meadow Mouse ate a good breakfast of seeds which he had stored in the hollow in the old fence post buried under the snow, and then he began work on the nearest doorway.
You can make just as good tunnels under the snow here as you had there, and there are lots and lots of seeds on the ground to eat.
If he doesn't see any danger, he'll come out and run around on top of the snow to get some of the seeds in the tops of the tall grasses that stick out through the snow.
However shall I get back home to my warm house of grass, my safe little tunnels under the snow, and my little store of seeds in the snug hollow in the old fence post?
The seeds in these were very nice indeed, and Danny always felt especially good after a meal of them.
This they placed uncut in a window of their place of business, and advertised that they would give one hundred dollars in gold to the one guessing the number of seeds it contained.
Besides the oil from the root, one obtained from the seedsalso occurs in commerce.
Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant (Abelmoschus moschatus Mönch; Hebiscus abelmoschus, L.
The odor becomes very pronounced on rubbing the seeds between the hands.
Tonka beans are the ripe seeds of Dipterix odorata.
When the vanilla fruit becomes ripe, the capsule opens and empties its content of seeds in the form of a balsam-like mass.
Macerate the quince seeds in the rose water 24 hours, strain, and add the glycerin and benzoin.
For this purpose Stinde has proposed the following process: Convert the pods together with the seeds to a coarse powder; bring 100 lbs.
The cross-section of the capsule is thick and fleshy, filled with very small, black, lustrous seeds stuck together by a gummy balsam with which they are coated.
Caraway oil (oleum carui) is obtained by distillation from the seeds of the well-known aromatic plant Carum carui, or the caraway, natural order Umbelliferae.
Its seeds readily germinate and cuttings, whether from roots or twigs, strike root quickly.
Then the scales open and the winged seeds are scattered broadcast.
The seeds are palatable and nutritious, green or ripe.
The ripe seeds were used in Revolutionary times as a substitute for coffee.
The heavy, round body has a wing twice its length by which the wind carries the seeds far away.
The cones are abundant; the seeds numerous, winged for flight, retaining their vitality longer than most pine seeds.
Among the blossoms are the pods in clusters, gaping wide if the seeds are shed; closed tight, with little monkey faces, if not yet open.
Thirty or forty years these cones may hang, theirseeds never released and never losing their vitality, until fire destroys the tree.
The harvest of witch hazelseeds is worth going far to see.
The fruits are almost globular, two to three inches long, turning red as they mature, equally showy when the scarlet seeds dangle from the open follicles.
Suckers are sent up about the roots of the fire-killed trees, and the wind scatters the seeds broadcast for a new crop.
The cone fruits are cylindrical or ovoid, ripening in a single season and discharging their seeds at maturity.
The siskins seen at Georgetown moved about in good-sized flocks, feeding awhile on weed-seeds on the sunny slopes, and then wheeling with a merry chirp up to the pine-clad sides of the mountains.
Just now I was aware of some little strangers darting about in the air, uttering a fine, querulous note, and at length descending to the ground to feast daintily on the seeds of a low plant.
Many of the kindly disposed citizens of Colorado Springs scattered crumbs and millet seeds on the streets and lawns, and of this supply the little visitors ate greedily, becoming quite tame.
Many of them, however, remain in the foothills and on the mesas and plains, where they find plenty of seeds and berries for their sustenance, unless the weather chances to be unusually severe.
Gather a cone of a Scotch fir; begin at the bottom of it, and pull off the seeds, so as to show one of the spiral rows of them continuously, from the bottom to the top, leaving enough seeds above them to support the row.
For the pulp of a strawberry is not a "shell," the seeds being on the outside of it.
Scoop out the pith from a small twig of elder, and having split it lengthwise, fill each of the parts with small seeds that produce flowers of different colours, but that blossom nearly at the same time.
The petals of many flowers expand in the sun, but contract all night, or on the approach of rain; after the seeds are fecundated the petals no longer contract.
When the agricultural mode of life was introduced, the early people obtained the seeds of wheat and barley, and, as these cultivated grasses do not grow wild in Britain, they must have been introduced either by traders or settlers.
Before the fair Celts had intruded themselves in Britain and Ireland, the seeds of pre-Celtic culture, derived by trade and colonization from centres of ancient civilization through their colonies, had been sown and had borne fruit.
Illustration] Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger When the moon has a green rim with red meat inside and black seeds on the red meat, then in the Rootabaga Country they call it a Watermelon Moon and look for anything to happen.
The seedsor other substances to be parched are placed inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing wood coals;" these are made to rapidly revolve.
Mahomet had a tame dove, that used to pick seedsout of his ear that it might be thought to whisper and inspire him.
For without art the noblest seeds Of flow'rs degen'rate into weeds.
With such divine plenteousness--seeds of the worlds in it--it goes about flocking on the souls of men.
The Sixth Interference: Literary Drill in College I Seeds and Blossoms Four men stood before God at the end of The First Week, watching Him whirl His little globe.
By the infinite bones of our bodies, by the seeds of the million years that flow in our veins, material things are spiritually discerned.
When this letter arrived, Pacho Bey, distrusting equally the treachery of the father and the weakness of the son, and content with having sown the seeds of dissension in his enemy's family, had sufficient wisdom to seek safety in flight.
His nature contained the seeds of every human passion, and he devoted all his long life to their development and gratification.
He appears in the midst of the strong as "the herald and mouthpiece of mysterious powers, with the determination to sow upon the soil, whenever and wherever possible, the seeds of suffering, dissension and contradiction.
Pitsane was ordered by Sekeletu to make a hedge round the garden at the Falls, to protect the seeds we had brought; and also to collect some of the tobacco tribute below the Falls.
These seeds are so abundant in some spots, that the inside of the stocking becomes worse than the roughest hair shirt.
A hole is made in the mud with a hoe, a few seeds dropped in, and the earth shoved back with the foot.
Many baobab-trees grow in different spots, and the few people seen were using the white pulp found between the seeds to make a pleasant subacid drink.
It made us anxious to plant the fruit-tree seeds we had brought, and all were pleased with the idea of having these same fruits in their own country.
The onions, with otherseeds of plants cultivated by the Portuguese, are usually planted in the beginning of April, in order to have the advantage of the cold season; the wheat a little later, for the same reason.
She 'd trail through the grass to be mown, And call all her children to follow; And scratch up the seeds that were sown, Then, lie in their places and wallow.
Tribulation, if by loss, Or by thorny gain, the cross, Thou art not a barren tree; Seeds of Patience drop from thee.
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