Everybody who passed the church stopped and stared at the open doors and the wilting grass leaves strewn about.
When seeing a wilting plant, it would scarcely be human nature not to dig out the pest and grind it under our heel.
If planted late, shade should be given and moisture maintained until danger ofwilting and shrivelling is past.
The ground should be "firmed" around them just as strongly, and they should be so well watched as to guard against the slightest wilting from heat and drought.
You may have petted a strawberry plant for a year, and after it has developed into noble proportions, and awakened the best expectations from its load of immature fruit, you will, perhaps, find it wilting some morning.
Its most prominent symptoms are the wilting of the foliage and a browning of the wood inside the recently wilted stems.
The symptoms of the disease are a gradual wilting and dying of the plants, usually in the later stages of their development.
This is particularly important at the beginning of the trouble when the eradication of a few wiltingplants may save the remainder.
In climates that are moist, some growers store clover in a mow when it has only reached the wilting stage in the curing process.
From one-third to one-half the quantity of the straw as compared with the hay will suffice for such curing, varying with the degree of the wilting in the hay.
The plants will start from seed in the early spring and grow with sufficient vigor for a time, after which they will show signs of wilting and finally they die.
From these field and laboratory studies, it was concluded that the wilting and stunting were not produced by a plant pathogen.
In order to determine whether or not the wilting was caused by a fungus or bacterium, plants were collected for microscopic examination and for culturing to show possible presence of pathogens.
In 1942, a very definite case of wilting and stunting was noted in cabbage plants growing in the vicinity of a black walnut tree.
These two instances of wilting and stunting of plants in the vicinity of walnut trees give further circumstantial evidence that the trouble might have been caused by the toxicity or antagonism of black walnut roots.
During the past years, a number of instances of stunting andwilting of tomato plants in the vicinity of black walnut trees has been observed.
The wilting and stunting were all located in one corner of the field, on both sides of which large black walnut trees were growing, and extended out in the field for a distance somewhat greater than the height of the trees.
All goes well with them, however, as we glide along the placid bosom of the Red Sea; the oppressive heat has a wilting effect even on the riotous spirits of the young mules.
The few days' rest has enabled me to recover from thewilting effects of riding in the terrific heat, and I have seen something of one of the most interesting points in all Asia.
The wilting of a tropical bloom--that was her attitude--the sap and the life all gone.
Terrific had been the heat throughout the month, wilting the palms, drawing iridescent vapours from the diminished stream, making the very sand too hot even for native feet.
In this you may carry the most delicate wild flowers and ferns without wilting them by the warmth of your hand.
Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun.
The atmosphere was heavy with the smell of gas, of plush upholstery, of wilting bouquets and of sachet.
One may fancy the clouds themselves are plants, springing up in the sky-fields at the call of the sun, growing in beauty until they reach their prime, scattering rain and hail like berries and seeds, then wilting and dying.
A few zigzags of lightning, five minutes' shower, then a gradual wilting and clearing.
I had taken off my morning coat and waistcoat before starting to walk, but the heat was awful, and my stiff white shirt and collar were wilting visibly.
He was in the act of addressing a smart-looking girl in black, bearing a brand-new valise and somewilting roses.
This is a fungous disease often destructive in greenhouses, discovered by the sudden wilting of the plants.
The house was a crush of wilting flowers, and smelt of tuberoses enough to give one a vertigo for a month.
This wilting of the leaves, followed later by the death of one branch after another as the fungus spreads, has given rise to the term "blight" of the chestnut trees.
The spread of the fungus, resulting in the cutting off of the sap flow, is the immediate cause of the wiltingand dying of the leaves and branch above the point of girdling.
The first symptoms of the disease involve a wilting of the foliage, with the leaves turning yellow and finally brown.
The first outward symptom of disease is the wilting of leaflets, usually in the upper portion of the crown.
Heavy feeding girdles the stem or twig, causing wilting and eventual death.
Illustration: Wiltingfoliage and defoliation of elms caused by Verticillium wilt.
The mother stooped to kiss her; a tear splashed upon the mass of wilting golden disks packed into papa’s treasure chamber.
He was the more glad to do it, as he fancied, once in a while, that the young apples or the wilting leaves had a peculiar and not pleasant odor, as of some gum or essence, that hung long in the atmosphere.
In fact, I began imagining myself in a hot bath, gazing at my now-wilting roses.
Many vegetable species become mildly stressed when soil moisture has dropped about half the way from capacity to the wilting point.
This curling and wilting is due to the fact that during the early growth of the crop free water stands so high in the soil that the crop roots are confined to a shallow layer of soil.
In such cases: A need of drainage is indicated by the curling and wilting of the leaves of corn and other crops during dry, hot weather.
When dry, hot weather comes, the free water recedes, the upper soil dries out, and the roots cannot get sufficient water to supply the demands of transpiration, hence the curling and wilting of the leaves.
If they are removed so gently as not to shake off the earth from the roots, they will not know that they have been moved, but continue to thrive without wilting a leaf.
If you find a plant wilting without apparent cause, you may be sure that a grub is feeding on the roots.
The preliminary signs of injury, such as wilting leaves and dead twigs in mid-summer are exceedingly important because they indicate serious trouble before it has passed the remedial stage.
Julia did not answer; she only touched the wilting and fragrant violets on her breast with her free hand.
Men were mopping their faces; some of the debutantes looked like wilting roses; the faces of some of the older women were shining.
The warm air bore the clean good scent of wilting grass and hot pine sap.
