A light, porous mulch applied now keeps the roots cool and the soil soft during these early days of growth.

They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

These include all quadratic surds, all rational numbers, and all numbers that can be formed from these using the basic arithmetic operations and the extraction of square roots.

It was from these roots, of spiritual songs, work songs and field hollers, that blues, jazz and gospel developed.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria.

# A distinguished set of objects are assumed to be reachable: these are known as the roots.

" The Roman Catholic understanding of these words, from the Patristic authors onward, has emphasized their roots in the covenantal history of the Old Testament.

Though all these works have their roots in Chrétien, several contain pieces of tradition not found in Chrétien which are possibly derived from earlier sources.

The character set is broadly broken into the following categories ( though these are by no means the only etymological roots of the characters we see in modern Chinese script ):

( The use of these terms has roots in W. D.

Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins.

In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter ; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring.

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

Trees serve as beds to them ; they lean themselves against them, and thus reclining only slightly, they take their rest ; when the huntsmen have discovered from the footsteps of these animals whither they are accustomed to betake themselves, they either undermine all the trees at the roots, or cut into them so far that the upper part of the trees may appear to be left standing.

Popularisation behind these ideas has roots in the work of early 20th century writers such as D. H. Lawrence and William Butler Yeats.

Notable among these are the stomatal guard cells, glandular and clothing hairs or trichomes, and the root hairs of primary roots.

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind.

Some species such as Rosa rugosa and Rosa pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight prickles, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots ( both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes ).

To avoid these problems, plants developed mechanisms that limit sodium uptake by roots, store them in cell vacuoles, and control them over long distances ; excess sodium may also be stored in old plant tissue, limiting the damage to new growth.

However, the name ' stock car ' is usually reserved for that racing class which traces its roots back to these early days in the 1950s, BriSCA F1 Stock Cars, which were previously known as " The Seniors " or " Senior Stock Cars ".

All SCA kingdoms trace their roots to these original three.

Together, these two roots are denoted ( see ± shorthand ).

It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.

The series had its roots in two half-hour sketch shows entitled Half-Open University which Marshall and Renwick had written with Mason for Radio 3 as a parody of Open University programmes.

In his programmes he demonstrates his knowledge of the wild, how to find food from seeds, berries, roots and other growing things, and how to survive by constructing temporary shelters, fires and canoes from natural materials.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

During the second year of the plant's life, a long, leafy stem from 50 to 255 centimeters tall grows atop the roots of healthy plants.

The major classes of cells differentiate from undifferentiated meristematic cells ( analogous to the stem cells of animals ) to form the tissue structures of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and reproductive structures.

The word prefix is itself made up of the stem fix ( meaning attach, in this case ), and the prefix pre-( meaning " before "), both of which are derived from Latin roots.

Pastels are an art medium having roots with the modern crayon and stem back to Leonardo da Vinci in 1495.

* Adventitious roots arise out-of-sequence from the more usual root formation of branches of a primary root, and instead originate from the stem, branches, leaves, or old woody roots.

Cassava is harvested by hand by raising the lower part of the stem and pulling the roots out of the ground, then removing them from the base of the plant.

New shoots often sprout from the roots when the main stem dies, so the species has not yet become extinct.

With these, the bulb grows naturally at some depth in the soil, and each year the new stem puts out adventitious roots above the bulb as it emerges from the soil.

The name could be interpreted as an extended form of a stem composed of Proto-Celtic elements deriving from Proto-Indo-European roots * ad-‘ to ’ + either * bʰend-‘ sing, rejoice ’ or * bʰendʰ-‘ bind ’.

It forms new perennial root crowns from stem nodes touching the ground, with thick storage roots growing as deep as 1 m.

Frequently, the roots are much larger than the stem which grows from them.

:: a ) Apical Meristem-It is present at the growing tips of stems and roots and increases the length of the stem and root.

Saulsbury's historical roots stem from a former settlement named Berlin, which was located one mile south of the current location of Saulsbury.

The thickened roots are storage organs that differ from stem tubers.

The edible portions of the leek are the white base of the leaves ( above the roots and stem base ), the light green parts, and to a lesser extent the dark green parts of the leaves.

Rhizomorphs grow relatively close to the soil surface ( in the top 20 cm ) and invade new roots, or the root collar ( where the roots meet the stem ) of woody plants.

The plants do not have upright canes like some other Rubus species, but have stems that trail along the ground, putting forth new roots along the length of the stem.

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( from " mass of roots ", from " cause to strike root ") is a stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes.

The charges of racism stem from the manner in which Pinguín and his mother are rendered, in the style of " darky iconography " ( a form which, in the United States, has its roots in blackface and the American minstrel show tradition.

Pups ( keikis ) form at the base of the stem and can either be divided from the parent plant once they have at least three roots of their own or alternatively, left on the plant these will make a stunning specimen as when mature will produce blooms with the parent plant-many award winning angraecum veitchiis are grown as such.