A stove evergreen shrub, which may be grown in any light, vegetable mould or in peat and loam, and is easily increased by suckers.
They will grow in any ordinary soil, but flourish best in vegetable mould, and in a moist, yet open, situation.
The bulbs should be placed in a composition of three parts light, sandy loam and one of vegetable mould.
They succeed best in a moist and shady situation, delight in peat or vegetable mould, and when grown in circles are very striking.
Humus, or vegetable mould, is capable of absorbing almost twice its own weight of water.
Large proprietors would receive important indirect benefits from the shelter and the moisture which forests furnish for the lands in their neighborhood, and eventually from the accumulation of vegetable mould in the woods.
Vegetables which contain no azote, like the ligneous part of plants, suffer their corresponding decomposition much more slowly, and with different modifications, but they are finally converted into vegetable mould.
The bottoms of the Wabash, Kaskaskias, Illinois, and Rock rivers, are also made up of a rich alluvion of sand and loam, containing a large proportion of vegetable mould.
Hence the term "animal mould" would be in some respects more appropriate than that commonly used of "vegetable mould.
The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of vegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land in every moderately humid country, is the subject of the present volume.
The hygroscopicity of vegetable mould is much greater than that of any mineral earth, and therefore the soil of the forest absorbs more atmospheric moisture than the open ground.
There is simply a surface of vegetable mould, inclined towards the water.
On weighing it after this process, the quantity lost will show the portion of animal and vegetable mould contained in the soil; and, "4th.
Thus Lactantius regarded Osiris as the son instead of the husband of Isis, and he makes no mention of the image of vegetable mould.
The soil is a thin stratum of clay, mixed with sand and a small proportion of vegetable mould, resting on a base of coarse gravel.
The trail led us among deep ravines, clad with heavy frosts, the soil of which was a coarse gravel, thinly covered with a vegetable mould.
The soil of the flats was a vegetable mould, eighteen inches or two feet in depth, resting on a stratum of sand and gravel, and evidently overflown by the annual floods of June.
Dung perfectly decomposed comes to the same thing as vegetable mould; therefore that one of them which is most attainable, or best prepared, may fitly serve instead of the other.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vegetable mould" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
