How To Use Loam In A Sentence
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The Wellston series typically occurs on steep slopes with a shallow, acidic A horizon, while the Grantsburg silt loam typically occurs in long, narrow areas bordering or on ridgetops.
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I apprehend the reader will not imagine I have over-rated the prcdudl of this farm, becaufe the rent is fmall: The great ex - pence of the marling fhould be confidercd; and as that manure agrees prodigioufly with light hazelly loams, I am confident fuch crops as I have fiated are not above the truth. truth.
The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a farm; and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands. Also, pla
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The presence of loam in potting composts does increase the margin for error, both when watering and feeding.
The Sun
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Fill nine small containers, such as flowerpots or tea cups, with presoaked floral loam.
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The freezing and thawing action on clay, silty clay, and silty clay loam soils tilled in the fall or winter to produce stale seedbeds usually have excellent seedbeds for early no-till spring planting.
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Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
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Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth.
Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
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Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
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You have loam and we have river bed sand and decomposed granite and perhaps silt from the river.
Bapteme - French Word-A-Day
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In an hour or less the tree will be in, all loamed and mounded and ready for life and a future longer than mine.
The Myth of Summer
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She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete
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Most of his soils are a gravelly sandy loam known as Aura, well drained and with 15% clay.
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The loam is the ordinary field soil from his market garden.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure
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Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
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Robert W. Carter, of Sabine Hall_, on the Rappahanock, whose land is principally of that kind of clayey loam common upon that river, once rich but badly worn by cultivation, is so well satisfied that it is profitable to make rich lands still more rich, he buys annually 30 or 40 tons of the best in market.
Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers
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Thus, if the soil be too wet, it may be drained; if too loose and sandy, it may be rendered more consistent and retentive of water by the addition of clay or loam; it may be enriched by chalk, or any kind of calcareous earth.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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The bullet from nowhere, the theody in the gloam, the silent stones: a true mystery and its answer are one.
May 2005: Nick Tosches on Arnold Rothstein
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The fine sandy and silty loams are formed from weathered Oligocene and Miocene sandstone (Ogallala and Arikaree Formations, and upper White River Groups).
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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She lay down again on the bed and sang a little wandering tune made up of the words I have sung all the songs all the songs I have sung all the songs there are until, touched by her own lullaby, she grew drowsy, and in the hollow of near-sleep she tasted the acridness of gold, left the chill of alabaster and smelled the dark, sweet stench of loam.
Toni Morrison - Prose
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With my failing right eye I saw dark loam, and my hands pushing something deep into it, some kind of white seeds that I planted a handsbreadth apart.
Wildfire
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gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead.
Whatever the morning version of "the gloaming" is...
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Ounce, Dice, Trice" is a book for children that's full of words: magnificent, wonderful, strange, fabulous words like frangipani, dimity, gloaming and nunnery, and murdo, drumjargon and chumly.
Kids' Book Boasts The Best Words, Real Or Not
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Soils are formed primarily from sandy and loamy glacial drift material and generally lack the arability of those in adjacent ecoregions to the south.
Ecoregions of Wisconsin (EPA)
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Beneath the shallow turf line the loose stoneless silt loam contained slight iron staining and abundant molluscs.
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I started with ravioli of mushrooms, mycologically deep and loamy and generous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Kirkland silt loam soil at the wheat pasture research unit is typical of much of the cropland in north central Oklahoma.
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The species occurs on sand, clay and loam, among low open woodland and in shrubland.
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The plant continues in blossom from June till the first frosts wither the leaves; it is far less coarse than the potatoe; the flower, when full blown, is about the size of a half crown, and quite flat; I think it is what you call salver-shaped: it delights in light loamy soil, growing on the upturned roots of fallen trees, where the ground is inclined to be sandy.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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Most soils are a mixture of clay, sand, and loam.
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In early times the walls were very much thicker, composed of hewn stone, making a kind of casing at each side, called ashlar, the interval being filled with rubble masonry cemented with lime and loam.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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Two intercrop patterns and sole crops of mustard (Brassica hirta Moench) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) were planted in 1988 and 1989 on a silt loam soil to examine mechanisms for overyielding in this intercrop system.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
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In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
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These soils are moderately deep to deep, well-drained loam or silt loam surface soils with loam or silty clay loam subsoils, formed primarily in sandstone residuum.
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The soil is loam and the subsoil Old Red Sandstone, interstratified with cornstone at Pippin's Hill in the north.
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Most need full sun and fertile, well-drained sandy loam with a neutral pH and abundant organic matter.
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The large twayblade grows in shady woodlands in loamy soil.
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A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind, especially along the windward side of a lake basin.
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The soil is a silty clay loam with 3.1% organic matter.
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Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
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The dark loamed valleys among the sandy uplands of the north, the prairies of the centre, and the lowlands near the Mississippi, are all made to yield the great staple.
History Of American Slavery
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If the surface soil have a good proportion of sand, gravel, or organic matter, so as to give it the consistency which is known as "loamy," it will bear any treatment which it may chance to receive in cultivation, or as pasture land; but if it be a decided clay soil, no amount of draining will enable us to work it, or to turn cattle upon it when it is wet with recent rains.
Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
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The heavy loam soil, once tilled by horses, is unforgiving to modern farm machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
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These soils are moderately deep to deep, well-drained loam or silt loam surface soils with loam or silty clay loam subsoils, formed primarily in sandstone residuum.
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The left bank and riverbed water retaining dam of Kangyang hydropower station is a dam with inclined loam core.
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Even the loam of upland pastures is open and rocky.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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A few inches of growing medium such as loamy soil is spread on top.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Good soil structure is one that is equally balanced between sand, clay and loam.
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Dirgham Salahi, who had studied geology, examined the loamy earth around his estate and carefully selected a group of French hybrid varietals to grow on his farm.
Dirgham Salahi, Virginia winery owner and Montessori school founder, dies at 81
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Fortunately, too, within forty miles we have a wide variety of soils and landscapes - sands, pines, loam, oaks, prairie.
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Native populations are found in loam or clay depressions containing moderately saline soils and a temporary water-table, and also on outcrops of gypso-saline marls.
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Siloam 's fa'en upo 'my heid: -- what does he, the first thing, but turn his ain auld freen's oot o' the sma beild they had!
The Marquis of Lossie
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It's the top spit that puzzles us, and loam is the most important thing of all.
Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
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The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming,
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The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl.
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The south-eastern slope bears heavy loessic soil, mixed with superficial pebbles and compact loam soil.
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Soils in this classification include fine sands, loamy sands and fine sandy loams.
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If it is nearly all clay it is a _clay loam_; if there is much sand it is a _sandy loam_.
Conservation Reader
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The soil of all stands was a readily erodible silty or sandy loam underlain by a reddish sand and clay.
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Shag the Bull lowed in soft content as he rested full-bellied on the black-loamed prairie.
The Outcasts
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Birds are numerous, from the “scrub fowl” which dwells in the dim jungle and constructs of decaying leaves and wood and light loam the most trustworthy of incubators, and wastes no valuable time in the dead-and-alive duty of sitting, to the tiny sun-bird of yellow and purple, which flits all day among scarlet hibiscus blooms, sips nectar from the flame-tree, and rifles the dull red studs of the umbrella tree of their sweetness.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Peanuts will grow in clay loam, but small clay particles stick to the textured surfaces of mature peanut pods, leaving mottles that mar the beauty of the shells.
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A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind, especially along the windward side of a lake basin.
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The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes.
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The presence of loam in potting composts does increase the margin for error, both when watering and feeding.
The Sun
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This cactus typically grows in gravelly clay or loam soils, partially shaded by other plants or rocks.
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It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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Red soil and sandy loam were most suitable for plant cultivation, compared to clay soil or clay loam soil.
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Plant the seeds in good loam.
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The subhumid to dry region contains a diverse mosaic of soils, mostly clay, clay loam, and sandy clay loam surface textures, and ranging from alkaline to slightly acid.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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All sites showed indications of soil slumping, and the loam to silt loam soil was derived from glacial till.
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The mammal fauna includes unusually abundant populations of the spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus), especially in the lancewood-bullwaddy thickets, and the northern nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera), especially in grasslands and open woodlands along the margins between black-soil plains and red loamy soils.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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Ideally, a loamy textured topsoil should be brought in to increase soil grade.
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Parkas worn over close-fitting body pieces leap from the gloaming in acid greens, violent oranges, purples and cardinal reds.
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It can be seen from Table 3 that TF values for agricultural plants are normally within the range of 0.001-1 for mineral soils with textures of loam or clay.
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Grabbing a hand trowel, he turns over the pebbly loam looking for worms for his plot.
Community Gardens Thrive in Urban Jungle
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He had been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about the streets in the gloaming.
Les Miserables
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Small numbers of red deer are also here, especially in the gloaming, grazing high among the pines.
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'Tis a gurt shame, that's what 'tis," said Primrose, resentful both for her friend's riband and her own edging; "and I'd get my Willie to make her buy new, only 'tis no good asking paupers for money, because, even if they was to be sold up, all their sticks and cloam wouldn't fetch enough for a yard o 'this riband.
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly
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The term loam is applied to a soil which, from its appearance in the field and the feeling when handled, appears to be about one-half sand and the other half silt and clay with more or less organic matter.
The First Book of Farming
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Cultivation: A medium of coarse sand or fine gravel on its own, or with some loam is sufficient.
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Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
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I'll help wi 'the cloam," said a big, heavily-made boy who was seated at one end of the table, eating a pasty.
Secret Bread
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Not unlike many other coastal towns on the Southern Pacific, it offers much to those who live there: the sea yields an abundance of fish, the terrain is the beginning of the fertile, humid jungle, and bountiful crops like papaya and bananas grow in the rich, dark loam.
Going South - Mexico Of The 1980's
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Well enriched, mellow loam, deeply dug or plowed, is best suited to the requirements of Carrots.
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The same as I told Mother Cloam — a man that knoweth his duty to head gardeners, as his noble lordship doth, the same know the differ atwixt Miss Faith — as fine a young
Springhaven
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A little light entered the room from the gloaming outside the window.
AMERICAN GODS
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In recent years, the surface has been laid with sand and loam.
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It is in the autumn that the moles heap up meanders of miniature barrows, built of the softest brown loam; and in the turbaries the turf-cutters pile larger and darker stacks of peat.
The Nebuly Coat
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And now President Ford, eager for the historic, enters the mist-heavy gloam of "foreign policy.
A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
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In the gloaming of the studio wings, Barry Twist and I watched him go.
MAN AND WIFE
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Most soils are a mixture of clay, sand, and loam.
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A soil mixture composed of about 2 parts fertile loam, 1 part leaf mold or peat, and 1 part sand or perlite is recommended for growing African violets.
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I bush hogged about a half acre of land down to the ground and then disced it until the ground was soft and loamy.
So have any of you used food plots for hunting deer? i want to put one in this spring and get it ready for deer season.
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Soils in this classification include fine sands, loamy sands and fine sandy loams.
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The white syringa prefers sandy or alluvial soils while the mountain syringa grows more readily in a clay loam soil.
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The fertile soil is fine-textured, alluvial, loamy and free from boulders.
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These soils consist of moderately deep to deep, moderately well - to well-drained silt loam surface soils and loam, silty clay loam, or silty clay subsoils.
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The north side has some very good silty clay loam, while the southwest corner is very sandy.
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Light sandy and silty soils tend to be deficient, whereas clay soils and loams are usually rich.
Planning the Organic Herb Garden
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The presence of loam in potting composts does increase the margin for error, both when watering and feeding.
The Sun
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One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam.
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Liddell silt loam is classified as a coarse-silty, siliceous, subactive, acid, thermic typic endoaquept.
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The species occurs on sand, clay and loam, among low open woodland and in shrubland.
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The fungus can thrive in calcareous clay loam soils with a pH range of 7.0 to 8.5.
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In the gloam, her teeth shone as green as grass, and her ancient monkey head was surmounted by a souffle of a cap.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Light sandy and silty soils tend to be deficient, whereas clay soils and loams are usually rich.
Planning the Organic Herb Garden
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a stony loamless yard
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Why did this bird of alder thickets and young moist forests, with its long bill designed to probe for earthworms in loamy soil, wearing mottled feathers that perfectly match the leaf litter of its secluded habitats, choose to fly directly over the biggest, busiest, brightest city in the country?
Uncategorized Blog Posts
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For corn, select only those sites where the mixed topsoil-upper subsoil placed over the spoil is of silt-loam or silty-clay loam texture.
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In the morning, Michael and I dumped five-gallon buckets full of compost, forest loam, sand, and leaf mold onto the root cellar's cold cement floor.
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As good a soil as any is one composed of garden loam, sand, and well-rotted (never new) cow manure in equal parts.
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Use an equal mixture of sand, loam, and sifted wood ash.
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Crabro advena nests in soils ranging from coarse sand and loamy fine sand to silty loam and gravelly loam.
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In early fall I get together a pile of fresh sod loam, that is, the top spit from a pasture field, but do not add any manure to it.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure
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Even the loam of upland pastures is open and rocky.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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To lift them they did, senators four, by the first quaint skreek of the gloaming and they hopped it up the mountainy molehill, traversing climes of old times gone by of the days not worth remembering; inventing some excusethems, any sort, having a sevenply sweat of night blues moist upon them.
Finnegans Wake
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That's right!" cried Annie, with sudden vigour; "go off and make yourself fine, and lave me to wash all the cloam that's been standen 'up in grease these three days.
Secret Bread
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The rough grade was thinly plated with permeable sandy loam soils.
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They remained nearly a month in the ancient episcopal city, strolling out in the gloaming through the lonely, grass-grown streets with their crumbling palaces of the time of the Council; floating with the current down the river Rhine along its forest-clad banks; stopping to look at the tiny houses with red roofs and spacious arbors beneath which sang the bourgeoisie, stein in hand, with the Germanic joy of a subchanter, grave and reposeful.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
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His pious, proto-fascistic prescription and presumption grow out of this rich, self-satisfied loam.
Times, Sunday Times
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In twilight, in perdition's lean and inauspicious loam).
Second April
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We can easily see that the melting away of the immense glaciers that we have been describing would produce vast floods in the rivers, and it is perhaps owing to the presence of such swollen rivers that are due the great beds of surface soil, called loam or loess, found in all the river valleys of France and Germany.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
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Sitting up on one of the lion sculptures, alone in the dusky gloam, Rovender Kitt stared out at the skies as the top of the sun sank below the inky landscape.
The Search For WondLa
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Well! (may it count to me as gain!), rather than seem to offend him I lay down in that manger, though I had no more desire to sleep than has the flittermouse in our Sussex gloamings; also I was careful to offer no money, for that is brutality.
The Path to Rome
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Even the loam of upland pastures is open and rocky.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Also, part of the gloaming is the relative nascency of the EU itself.
Balkinization
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The light was failing fast now, and the oil lights of the lanterned promenade began to dominate the gloaming.
Tai-Pan
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To everything around the place, an 'in the twilight gloam
The Path to Home
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The most extensive vegetation, especially on sand and loam soils, are bloodwood eucalypts (Corymbia spp.) or, on deeper soils in higher rainfall areas, eucalypt-dominated woodlands with Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata).
Kimberly tropical savanna
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As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
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On this newly made, restricted strip one may peep and botanise without restraint, discovering that though it does not offer conditions at all favourable to the retention of moisture, plants of varied character crowd each other for space and flourish as if drawing nutriment from rich loam.
Tropic Days
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The water runs down with a strong sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; but on the other side it is flat, pebbly, and fit to land upon.
Lorna Doone
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Irrigation of many soils, including the commonly-occurring silty or sandy loams, is relatively straight forward and does not call for extensive knowledge of pedology on the part of the irrigation engineer.
Chapter 9
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But for farmers intending to grow soyabeans, it advisable to grow the crop on clay loam and sandy loam, which are the best soils for the plant.
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The strickle and loam process is a well practiced and cheaper way for making large round shaped castings and is used in bell foundries.
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The Avilla series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in gravelly and loamy alluvium.
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The soil at the experimental site is a Butler silt loam (fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Abruptic Agriaquoll).
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Camp Nelson and High Bridge were dry woodlands in silty clay on steep, south-facing, gorge slopes, but Scotts Grove was a mesie woodland on level silt loam.
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Allow me to present my humble views of an analogous discovery of frostwork on December 6, 1856, in a sandy loam in Chester county, Pa., near the Paoli monument.
Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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Loam and caustic might be thought of as the conditions of existence: the one an especially fertile soil, life-giving; the other a burning substance that destroys living tissue.
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Soils are composed of Gilpin silt loam, a moderately deep, well drained soil with a lower subsoil of silty clay loam of the subgroup Typic Hapludult.
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A stock of young plants may soon be got up by division of strong roots after the flowering season; such pieces as have roots may be planted at once in their permanent quarters; the rootless parts should be dibbled into light sandy loam and shaded with branches for a week or two.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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At eight sites the soil texture was loam or light clay.
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Compost, good garden soil, or loam can be used for up to half of the total mix, with the other half being vermiculite and/or perlite.
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Propagation is done by either dividing the rootstock with shoots or by planting seeds in a container of damp sand or loam.
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She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete
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Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground.
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In the gloam, I made a search for such but found none.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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The soils of the upper Wisconsin River drainage generally developed on loamy till deposits or sandy outwash deposits.
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Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silt loam or loam with gravelly or very gravelly modifiers.
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Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium.
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One example of a grower who has one is Paul Steer, farming 350ha of sandy / clay loam in North Lincs.
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Soils are generally weathered andesitic ash, being dark sandy loams and loamy sands to the west; drainage is frequently poor.
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
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Shepherds was pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats.
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The heavy loam soil, once tilled by horses, is unforgiving to modern farm machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cara remembered the loamy, sour smell of the dirt and the way the stiff honeysuckle branches would poke her in the legs and back.
Choker
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Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
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Ash of the loam was a lady at home when Brut was an outlaw man
Archive 2006-11-01
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The loam of the junkyard was rich and fertile, streaming with healthy earthworms, mole crickets, and warty toads camouflaged against the ground.
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It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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Light sandy and silty soils tend to be deficient, whereas clay soils and loams are usually rich.
Planning the Organic Herb Garden
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A ten-mile strip of special soil runs through it: a deep-red and grey sandy loam over a lime subsoil that grows cattle and kurrajong trees beautifully, said Eric, who grew both through his Cumberdeen years.
Wildwood
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Cultivation: The planting medium should consist of clay, peat, loam or leaf mould and a good layer of sand.
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Through her long fingers fall clumps of rich loam and tiny, glistening seeds.
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This tough plant will grow in exposed or sheltered aspects and in acid, alkaline or neutral soil of chalk, clay, sand or loam as long as it doesn't get waterlogged.
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The most extensive vegetation, especially on sand and loam soils, are bloodwood eucalypts (Corymbia spp.) or, on deeper soils in higher rainfall areas, eucalypt-dominated woodlands with Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata).
Kimberly tropical savanna
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Now she’s borrid his head under Hatesbury’s Hatch and loamed his fate to old Love Lane.
Finnegans Wake
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Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium.
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The grass leaves and roots gradually rot down to produce a fine, crumbly loam that can be used for potting all sorts of plants from tomatoes to tulips.
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The preferred soil is coarse to fine, preferably hard, compact clay or silty clay loam.
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The soil is a rich sandy loam, that is easily cultivated and gives promise of great agricultural and horticultural possibilities.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
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From reel to schottische and from schottische to reel, foursome and eightsome, they kept him playing, ever asking for more, till the gloaming passed into moonlight and still they were not done.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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The heavy loam soil, once tilled by horses, is unforgiving to modern farm machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gently sloping sand plains of medium textured red earths, sandy loams and red earth sands are separated from dune formations of red siliceous sand and red earth sands by a transitional zone comprising largely very coarse siliceous sand.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
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Jews, who traditionally made three pilgrimages a year to Jerusalem, would immerse themselves in the Siloam Pool before heading down the stone pathway to the Temple.
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These pastures had been sown on sandy loam soils, which were low in nitrogen, slightly acidic, rich in iron oxides and had received significant superphosphate treatments in previous years.
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As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
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Heavy loam and clay soils especially benefit from this treatment.
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Ungathered toys; our hearth-light cut the gloam; 10
Apparition
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Soils of the gap floor are Andover, a deep, poorly drained loam of low permeability derived from sandstone and shale colluvium.
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They prefer well-drained soil - either fine sandy clay or heavy loam that is slightly acid to neutral - but will grow in almost any soil so long as it's not too wet or acidic.
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Its highly erodable Quaternary marine terraces of unconsolidated to semi-consolidated sand, silt, and clay are gently sloping, and worn down along creek beds to sandstone and siltstone overlain by loamy sand and sandy and silty loam.
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon
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But when a thunder storm comes up, Ma sits an 'shivers in the gloam
A Heap O' Livin'
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The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes.
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None the less is it true, that in proportion to the skill and experience of the cultivator will be his desire to secure a supply of loam, peat, and leaf-mould.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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The grass leaves and roots gradually rot down to produce a fine, crumbly loam that can be used for potting all sorts of plants from tomatoes to tulips.
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The mammal fauna includes unusually abundant populations of the spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus), especially in the lancewood-bullwaddy thickets, and the northern nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera), especially in grasslands and open woodlands along the margins between black-soil plains and red loamy soils.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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Lodes of ore and inches of fertile loam have little bearing on a nation's prosperity and influence anymore.
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Woodlands dominated by eucalypts or bloodwood eucalypts (Corymbia spp.) are the most extensive vegetation type, especially on sand and loam soils.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 yards away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop.
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My poor back is blue all over with the cloam my missus takes to bed.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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An all-purpose potting mix has composted bark, peat moss or peat humus added to loamy soil.
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richy loamy soil
