At this period the suckers were broken off from the old stocks, and planted in pots from eight to twelve inches in diameter, varying according to the size of the sucker.
The mouths of the fire-places should be about sixteen inches wide, twelve inches deep, and the doors and their posts may be made of cast iron.
Almost wherever tried on lands under a rainfall of twelve inches or more potatoes have given comparatively large yields.
However, until the wheat and other grains are ten to twelve inches high, it is perfectly safe to harrow them.
The coil is of large dimensions, capable of passing a spark across an air-gap of ten to twelve inches.
Gas is forced through the pipes connected with the lamps by hydraulic rams working gas-pumps, which alternately suck in and expel the gas under a pressure of twelve inches (i.
With these legs the beetle digs, using them with such address that in the course of an hour or two it will sink a hole in the ground ten or twelve inches deep, in order to lay its eggs at the bottom.
Great numbers of albatrosses nest together on uninhabited islands, each pair scooping together a quantity of clay, grass, and sedge, which they arrange in a conical heap about ten or twelve inches high, with a little hollow at the top.
The method adopted by Mr. Highton is to line a small deal box, say ten or twelve inches long, with a tin plate, and to put this plate in connection with the earth.
There is always from eight to twelve inches of pure air close to the ground: if you cannot therefore walk upright through the smoke, drop on your hands and knees, and thus progress.
The blocks of these may be turned out of one piece, whose length from the barrel of the seventh mutation to the block of the ninth, must be twelve inches.
Ten or twelve inches will be sufficient for the diameter of wheels with six spokes.
Cases for fire-pumps should be made very strong, and rolled on four or eight-ounce formers, each ten or twelve inches long.
When they are thoroughly dried, procure a tin tube, twelve inches long, to fit easy into the pipes.
This species is dark green, with filaments erect, coarse as a double bristle, and wiry; five to twelve inches long.
From the point of crossing to the bay, on the sunny side, the ridge is well timbered with spruce six to twelve inches in diameter.
At the north end of Burr lake there is situated a nice grove of white spruce timber, containing trees of ten to twelve inches diameter.
They have the very singular habit, considering their apparent helplessness, of being able to leap to a certain height and then project themselves ten or twelve inches.
These bivalves have the singular power of leaping to a considerable height and then throwing themselves to a distance of ten or twelve inches--a spectacle which may be witnessed any day at low water.
Let us imagine a great cylindrical bladder dilated in the middle, attenuated and rounded at its two extremities, of eleven or twelve inches in length, and from one to three broad.
The twenty or twenty-five radial spines are changed over into long coarse white hairs, four to twelve inches long or even longer, and form a dense covering; hence the common and specific names, Old Man Cactus and senilis.
We find that the radial spines of the young plants are transformed into coarse white translucent hairs from four to twelve inches long, and, being deflexed like long gray hairs, suggest the name of "Old Man Cactus.
Their general length is about ten or twelve inches.
Procure an oblong box, about two feet long, twelve inches wide, and eight high.
Simple; six to twelve inches high, having, near the summit, a pair of leaves united around the stem.
Palmately and nearly equally five-lobed; cordate at base; four to twelve inches broad; the lobes acute; densely tomentose beneath.
A stone twenty-seven inches long, twelve inches high, and three inches thick, of very hard and heavy material.
One of the buildings on the bottom, measuring eight by ten feet, was of sandstone blocks, about seven by twelve inches, and four inches thick, laid in what seemed to be adobe mortar.
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