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A young plant grown from seed.
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Any young plant, especially:
Examples of seedlings in a Sentence
Seedlings should be protected from frost during the first winter.
The seedlings should then be 6 ins.
Some forms cause damping off of seedlings - e.g.
The tree is a favourite with hares and rabbits, and the seedlings are apt to be destroyed by mice.
Soaking the seed in strong-smelling substances, such as paraffin and turpentine, has been found efficacious, and in some districts paraffin sprayed over the seedlings has been practised with decided success.
After the seedlings appear, thinning is completed in usually three successive hoeings, the plants being watered after thinning, and subsequently at intervals of from twelve to fifteen days, until about the end of August when picking commences.
The seeds are sown in April, on rich ground, which should not be too highly manured; the young larches are planted out when two years old, or sometimes transferred to a nursery bed to attain a larger size; but, like all conifers, they succeed best when planted young; on the mountains, the seedlings are usually put into a mere slit made in the ground by a spade with a triangular blade, the place being first cleared of any heath, bracken, or tall herbage that might smother the young tree; the plants should be from 3 to 4 ft.
When the seedlings make their appearance another field is prepared for transplanting.
The vascular system of cycadean seedlings presents some features worthy of note; centripetal xylem occurs in the cotyledonary bundles associated with transfusion-tracheids.
The resulting seedlings are then planted in a random, non-linear pattern inside fenced exclosures, replicating the natural distribution of the trees.
Among the trypsins we have the pa pain of the Papaw fruit (Carica Papaya), the bromelin of the Pine-apple, and the enzymes present in many germinating seeds, in the seedlings of several plants, and in other parts.
For new varieties the flowers should be fertilized with a view to combine, in the seedlings which result from the union, the desirable qualities of the parents.
These beetles, characterized by their skipping movements and enlarged hind femora, also attack the hop (Haltica concinna), the vine in America (Graptodera chalybea, Illig.), and numerous other species of plants, being specially harmful to seedlings and young growth.
The seedlings rapidly developed and in most places in which they were planted grew into large trees which furnished satisfactory latex when tapped in their sixth or seventh year.
The young seedlings are sometimes nibbled by the hare and rabbit; and on parts of the highland hills both bark and shoots are eaten in the winter by the roe-deer; larch woods should always be fenced in to keep out the hill-cattle, which will browse upon the shoots in spring.
Supposing seedlings to have been developed, it is found that a large number of them present considerable variations, some being especially robust, others peculiar in size or form.
The pricking out of seedlings in pots in the propagating pit is effected in a similar way.
Thus shallow square or oblong wooden boxes, made of light, inexpensive wood, are very useful for seedsowing, for pricking out seedlings, or for planting cuttings.
It is from having ample room that pricked out transplanted seedlings often make the finest plants.
Pythium is a semiaquatic form attacking seedlings which are too plentifully supplied with water; its hyphae penetrate the cell-walls and rapidly destroy the watery tissues of the living plant; then the fungus lives in the dead remains.
They germinate only in the second year after sowing; in the course of their first year the seedlings attain a height of 6 to 12 in.
The modern orange industry practically began with the introduction into Southern California in 1873 of two seedless orange trees from Brazil; from their stock have been developed by budding millions of trees bearing a seedless fruit known as the " Washington navel," which now holds first rank in American markets; other varieties, mainly seedlings, are of great but secondary importance.
Vast numbers of Scotch firs are raised in nurseries for artificial planting; the seed is sown in the spring, being just covered with earth, and the seedlings transplanted in the second year into rows for further culture, or taken direct from the seed-bed for final planting; sometimes the seed is sown where the trees are intended to grow.
If, on the other hand, the true seeds of any of our cultivated varieties are sown, the seedlings show very wide variations from one another and from the parents.
In this connexion it is very interesting to observe that Messrs Sutton of Reading find that the seedlings of many of the varieties of potato that occur spontaneously in different parts of America come quite true to type from seed.
The seedlings have been raised elsewhere and are now ready to be planted out in the main paddy field.
Seedlings have been raised from the excreta of various birds including the house sparrow.
There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two!
Six weeks after inoculation brownish, sunken lesions were observed on the base of stems of seedlings inoculated with all anastomosis groups.
Cadenza remained resistant to all isolates at the adult plant stage, including one isolate which was virulent on seedlings of the cultivar.
There is therapeutic value in nurturing living things and it is easy to forget problems when you're caring for seedlings and plants in a garden.
I have just lost one of my candelabra primulas to vine weevil over the winter, even the many seedlings which were around.
Part B growing radishes in film cans - Student sheet 9 Growing seedlings.
They are also prolific self seeders, so remove unwanted seedlings each spring as part of routine Maintenance.
Do remember to thin out any recently sown carrots seedlings to ensure that competition for water is kept to the minimum.
Basically there were plenty of naturally regenerating seedlings - farmers cut back those they did not want to develop into fodder trees.
Deer, in particular, have had a major impact in recent years on the ability of pine seedlings to survive.
Many of the self-fertilised seedlings suffered greatly, and a much larger number of them perished than of the crossed.
At the time, the enclosure contained around 100,000 Scots pine seedlings.
This water can be used for all plants except tiny little seedlings which do need a drop of cleaner water from the mains.
Seedlings rapidly develop a vertical taproot from which lateral roots are produced mainly in the upper 30 cm of soil.
When the flowers form, however, the mycelium sends hyphae into the young ovaries and rapidly replaces the stores of sugar and starch, &c., which would have gone to make the grain, by the soot-like mass of spores so well known as smut, &c. These spores adhere to the grain, and unless destroyed, by "steeping" or other treatment, are sown with it, and again produce sporidia and yeast-conidia which infect the seedlings.
Part B Growing radishes in film cans - Student sheet 9 Growing seedlings.
Sometimes birds take a liking to to radish seedlings, however once past the seedling stage, they leave them alone.
Less disturbance of forest ecosystem and greater shelter for regenerating seedlings.
Scarify with rakes to maintain an open sward to allow the germination of seedlings.
Trillium grandiflorum seedlings There is a wide range of flower shape and size as well as the color.
Stake rows when seedlings are 3 high with twiggy branches.
And the Yosemite forest is a living forest with seedlings everywhere and a rich understory of shrubs and flowers.
The plants are strong and healthy, ready to compete effectively with weed seedlings.