Gums were extracted from quince, psyllium ( fleawort ), flax, and locust ( carob ) seeds in ancient times.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

The seeds of life which continued floating in the air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation.

The seeds of long-term success were planted on September 14, 1954, when the Orioles hired Paul Richards to become the ballclub's manager and general manager.

All of the areas ruled by the Aztecs were ordered to pay a tax, leading those that grew the beans to offer cacao seeds as tribute.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

The primordial fluctuations gravitationally attracted gas and dark matter to the denser areas, and thus the seeds that would later become galaxies were formed.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

In 1993 the company demerged its pharmaceutical bioscience businesses: pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, specialities, seeds and biological products were all transferred into a new and independent company called Zeneca Group ( which subsequently merged with Astra AB to form AstraZeneca PLC ).

Yet another myth speaks of the three founding deities of Jeju Island, who were to be wed to the three princesses of Tamna ; the deities brought seeds of five grains which were the first seeds planted, which in turn became the first instance of farming.

Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.

The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison, with the vines first fruiting in 1910.

The Roman pound and ounce were both defined in terms of different sized collections of carob seeds, and consequently, the two mass units were related to each other through a simple fraction.

The dominant land plant species of the time were gymnosperms, which are vascular, cone-bearing, non-flowering plants such as conifers that produce seeds without a coating.

However, this did not happen because the seeds of the primitive structure of science were never formed.

The seeds of the New Left were planted in the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

Spengler's vision of the cyclical nature of civilization and the contemporaneity of the end of the Western European cycle led William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to look for the seeds of the next cycle in the communities of which they were a part.

When the French revolution created strong nation states, the criminal gangs moved to other poorly controlled regions like the Balkans and Southern Italy, where the seeds were sown for the Sicilian Mafia-the lynchpin of organised crime in the New World.

However, seeds, such as grains and beans, were rarely eaten and never in large quantities on a daily basis.

The mainstays of the passenger pigeon's diet were beechnuts, acorns, chestnuts, seeds, and berries found in the forests.

When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used in highly fertile areas, such as the banks of the Nile where the annual flood rejuvenates the soil, to create drills ( furrows ) to plant seeds in.

Reports made on tambalacoque seed germination by Hill ( 1941 ) and King ( 1946 ) found the seeds germinated without abrading.

In 1876, Henry Wickham gathered thousands of para rubber tree seeds from Brazil, and these were germinated in Kew Gardens, England.

Migrating flocks of dark-eyed juncos may consume vast quantities of seeds and freshly germinated seedlings.

Small seeds germinated and grew more rapidly compared to large seeds of the same cultivars under NaCl stress.

Brought seeds to moon that germinated in space.

Azalea seeds can also be collected and germinated.

A couple of years after she had had to leave Newington Green, these seeds germinated into A Vindication of the Rights of Men, a response to Burke's denunciation of the French Revolution and attack on Price.

In some trees, like Jackfruit, the seeds can be found already germinated while the fruit goes overripe ; this condition cannot be said as vivipary since the moist and humid conditions provided by the fruit mimics a wet soil that encourages germination.

Thick cover crop stands often compete well with weeds during the cover crop growth period, and can prevent most germinated weed seeds from completing their life cycle and reproducing.

A total of the 100 seeds placed 87 germinated.

The cunning locals agreed ; however a gentle roasting on a shovel over a coal fire ensured that the seeds never germinated.

This greater control meant that seeds germinated consistently and in good soil.

The shoots of the germinated seeds are also eaten as a vegetable.

Nearly all the seeds germinated successfully, and the Forest Service had some 420 to 450 seedlings after a few years.

This allowed seeds to be germinated in the greenhouse and then easily moved to the attached cold frame to be hardened-off before final planting outside.

A couple of years after she left Newington Green, these seeds germinated into A Vindication of the Rights of Men, a response to Burke's denunciation of the French Revolution and attack on Price.

These works focused on the alleged energies of pyramids in general not solely the egyptian pyramids, Toth and Nielson for example reported experiments where " seeds stored in pyramid replicas germinated sooner and grew higher ".

To keep the Rangers busy while he germinated his seeds, Terror Blossom summoned the Hatchasaurus and then apparently left the park.

The recently germinated seeds form fleshy sprouts below the surface which can be boiled and eaten as a fibrous, nutritious food.

The only surviving example of the Judean Date Palm, artificially germinated from 2000 year-old seeds, was planted in Ketura and continues to survive there.