| 单词 | second growth |
| 例句 | Nothing was truer; as it turned out, Milkman’s feet could hardly make it over the stony road covered with second growth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The year’s harvest is already finished, but a second growth is available on some vines, which we are free to pick and sample. In Jordan, a wine industry takes root 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Big game is almost a memory only and timber is largely of second growth. The celebrity war hero of 1919: The search for Sergeant York and his famous WWI diary 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Most of the established woodland we see today is second growth, originating a century or more ago. An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z “After the primary cut, the second growth created side heads, not ho-hum shoots.” Starting a new year off with new seed catalogues 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z There are 15 second growths, 14 third growths, 10 fourths and 18 fifths. How relevant is a 160-year-old way to classify chateaux vintages? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “There are many times you can go after large swatches of second growth if you can go after a small percentage of old growth. It suddenly makes more sense.” The Pacheedaht people finally started making money from Vancouver Island timber. Then the protesters arrived. 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z “I mean, we can cut second growth, but the people on the other end are not going to like it. It’s just not going to last.” This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? The biomass heating system would use leftover wood from thinning of second growth forests or from timber operations, said Clay Good of the Renewable Energy Alaska Project. Alaska village turns to biomass heating for cheaper energy 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s what we call old growth and second growth. Can Redwoods Survive the Devastating California Wildfires? 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Restoration work in “second growth” redwood forests — those that have been harvested at least once before — is sometimes counterintuitive. As climate changes threaten California’s giant redwoods, the key to their salvation might be within them 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z When they found the second growth, they used words like geriatric and high-risk. Growing a Baby After a Tumor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Its fifth venture fund, announced Monday, will have $400 million under management, and its second growth fund will have $600 million. Venture Capital Firm Navigates Uncharted Course to Success 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z “Under this landmark agreement, more old and second growth forest will be protected, while still ensuring opportunities for economic development and jobs for local First Nations,” said Premier Christy Clark in a statement. British Columbia reaches agreement to protect massive coastal rainforest 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z "Under this landmark agreement, more old and second growth forest will be protected, while still ensuring opportunities for economic development and jobs for local First Nations," said Premier Christy Clark in a statement. Historic deal to protect Canada rainforest from logging 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “We don’t want to call it the second growth anymore,” he said. Reading Restaurant Wine Lists, for Blockbusters and Values 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z "This has the potential to provide a very substantial second growth front alongside our existing activities in the aerospace sector," said Quickstep managing director Philippe Odouard. In Australia, manufacturing's not dead, just changing 2013-08-19T21:21:15Z Taken together, that suggests output is likely to be revised higher when the government publishes its second growth estimate later this month. Business inventories rise less than expected in December 2013-02-13T15:01:35Z Even now the young leaves are starting on the rose bushes; the period of second growth has already begun. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z “We are seeing a lot of diversification into second growths and other grands crus wines that are being bought for drinking instead and less speculative punting on first growths.” Bordeaux Faces Price Test at $23 Million Sales as Demand Weakens 2012-01-10T19:24:42Z Some twigs of a rose tree, which, growing luxuriantly in the warmth and moisture, spread across the spring, like a green canopy, must have been a second growth of the same year. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Outside and extending some three hundred yards from the edge of the woodland was an arable field upon a pretty ascending plain, beyond which was a second growth of pine and oak. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z “Most of our investors continue with the second growth fund but in addition we took the opportunity of making the larger fund,” said Zocco. Armed With New Fund, Index Ventures Hunts For The Next Billion-Dollar Tech Firm 2011-11-09T11:41:59Z Not to "high coniferous trees in northern forests"—the Mecca of innumerable warblers—but to scrubby, second growth of woodland borders, or lower trees in the heart of the woods, do these dainty birds retreat. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z The other eight allotments are also producing—fine second growth desert sage. The Discards 2011-08-27T02:00:23.603Z Afterward, they enjoyed a second growth spurt when American industry settled along waterways for easy access to raw materials such as iron ore. Brains Over Buildings (preview) 2011-08-19T12:15:01.193Z The lithe trunks of second growth are looped in an intricate confusion of arches one upon another, many upon one, over whole acres of low-roofed forest floor. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z There was short stubble where the grain had waved, and over it the second growth of clover was weaving its green mantle of concealment. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z In the present report the term "second growth" refers to areas that have been recently cut over. Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula 2011-06-21T02:00:27.783Z It appeared to be a dense forest of second growth, the trees not being very large. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z Bursting.—Bursting of cabbage heads is caused by a second growth, the result, perhaps, of continued wet weather, or warm weather following cold weather. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z The larger trees which formerly grew on the mountains have nearly all been felled, and where the land is not suitable for cultivation their place is taken by a dense second growth. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z In its note, I.S.S. observed a lack of “second growth” activists. DealBook: Quiet Proxy Season Means Fewer Fights in the Boardroom 2011-05-03T21:42:33Z In the Rain Forest zone "second growth" areas usually contain species of deciduous trees. Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula 2011-06-21T02:00:27.783Z Lumbermen commonly say, "You never can raise a second growth of white pine as good as the first growth." Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The bark of both these trees is used as food by the beavers, and they were now busily at work cutting down, clearing away, and storing for winter use this second growth of timber. Camping at Cherry Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:23.997Z If possible, select a spot in a thicket of evergreen timber of a second growth and out of the way of any large trees that might blow onto the camp. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. A number of specimens were taken adjacent to and within abandoned road camps, where second growth vegetation was rank. Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway Where they were now much of the timber appeared to be second growth, and such hemlocks as they saw were small. The Auto Boys' Vacation This power, however, is common in broad-leaved trees, as may be seen after a fire has swept thru second growth, hardwood timber. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The ground had been cleared many years before; this was indicated by the second growth of trees and the kind of vegetation which is foreign to the primeval condition of the soil. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day "Yes, sir; and the spreading chestnut, or the second growth, that springs up and comes to maturity in cleared fields, is found standing alone." Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Clearing of woodland for agricultural and other use, and subsequent encroachment of second growth concomitant with the creation of man-made lakes and ponds, has greatly increased the available habitat for this bird. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon The specimen from near Esquipulas was taken in a net placed across a trail in second growth forest. Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country Altho the more valuable timber, especially the pine, has been cut out, it still remains a largely unbroken forest mainly of spruce, second growth pine, hemlock and some hardwood. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The second growth is of all ages, from seedlings to trees 12 to 14 inches in diameter. The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park The Colonel has the pick o' the biggest tree, the Lieutenant-Colonel and Major take the next; the Captains and Lieutenants take the second growth, and the Sergeants have the saplins. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro His description of the vegetation indicates that most of the second growth was not much taller than 7 feet. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon In second growths, among birches, and at the border of the woods one may hear the wheezy, lazy, swee-chee of the Blue-wing. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season And it will take not a hundred, not two hundred, but a thousand years, to bring up a second growth of such trees. Through Our Unknown Southwest Young vigorous plants, on the contrary, will require to be watered rather sparingly, to prevent them making a second growth. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house That would easily explain why our pines, which we call "second growth," show little tendency to become such majestic or so long lived trees as the giants of a century and more in age. Old Plymouth Trails This kills the second growth of weeds, makes the surface clean for the young plants, and does away with the first weeding, which is a costly item. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus Scrubby second growths undergrown with bushes, roadside borders of trees and bushes, and the brushy margins of woods are all resorts of the Chestnut-side. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Monotony marks the trails that fade from memory; they represent hours of marching through timber of a second growth, or skirting hills where dead sticks stand forlorn and only the fireweed blooms. The So-called Human Race The limbs would make excellent wood, and the ground would need no planting for a second growth. Soil Culture Lower limbs decay in time and in the progress of forty or fifty years we get a "second growth" pine which is fairly limbless for a height of forty or fifty feet. Old Plymouth Trails The second growth was in full flower, yet with a difference from the first, which I could detect even against the grain of the passion that was subjugating me. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Scrubby second growths, hillsides with scattered cedars and barberries, and, sometimes, bushy places in the pines are the haunts of the miscalled Prairie Warbler. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season These cases of poisoning most commonly occur when cattle are pastured upon the young plant or upon a field where the crop has been cut and is making a second growth. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle In field culture, when second growth occurs, dig your potatoes at once, if they are large enough to be of much use. Soil Culture "It's all second growth timber, though," called back Fred, who was still just a dozen paces in the lead, and pushing his way through brush that often entirely concealed the ground. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School The second growth of stunted timber, showing everywhere 114 the scars of the wasting rapacity of man, stood stark and wilted to the roots. The Shepherd of the North No second growth the western isle could bear, At once exhausted with too rich a year. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir There is some reason to think that the frosted second growth is particularly rich in hydrocyanic acid. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle In warm climates the potato grows less luxuriantly, yields much less, and is liable to be ruined by a second growth. Soil Culture In this second hilling up, the union should be just barely covered so that the soil round the union will be dry and unfavorable to a second growth of roots. Manual of American Grape-Growing Fifty square miles of sandy hills, covered here and there with second growth scrub, it is an ideal ground for the purpose. From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade From the distant second growth the herd gazed out, still suspicious. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor Second Growth of Grass.—The second growth of grass is known by different names in different localities. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc "The ladle be a good un, for I fashioned it from an old paddle of second growth ash, whose blade I had twisted in the rapids, and ye can put yer whole weight on it." Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks To the west is a second growth of woods—everything small but thick. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation All the large timber having been long since cut off, the region was now covered with a ragged second growth and thick underbrush. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines There are now parts of the East where none of the primeval forest remains and very little of the second growth. Conservation Reader The second growth here is considered of little value in comparison with the value of the land for agricultural purposes. Seasoning of Wood The trees were all vigorous young second growth here, and curtained the slopes with billows of green. Judith of the Cumberlands Although the first growth of Weschcke was totally destroyed along with the crop, the second growth contained a fair distribution of pistillate flowers which probably would have produced nuts, had they been pollinated. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 Back from the water-meadows was a region of low hills covered with a second growth of young birches and poplars. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life This second growth seriously affects the filling of the nuts, in that food materials are consumed in producing this second growth rather than in the growth and filling of the nuts. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 There is considerable land upon which the second growth will become valuable timber within a few years. Seasoning of Wood The owners calculated it would take twenty-five years to cull out all the large timber and by the time that job was finished there would be a second growth ready to cut. Blue Ridge Country It was different from the old house, shut in close by a second growth of birch and oak. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" Our trouble with all other varieties of this species is that they make a second growth in fall and then succumb to frost. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 Generally this second growth is not made until late in the season, and it usually follows a period of dry weather, when conditions again become favorable for growth. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 At some distance rose the low hill, covered, upon this side, by a second growth of pines. The Long Roll The virgin forest brought its owner more than $160,000 and the second growth is ready to cut. Blue Ridge Country Wherefore, the St. Andrew's folk had cast about for a British minister, preferring the second growth, hopeful that its advantage of American shade might have made its excellence complete. St. Cuthbert's Behind the house lay a low, rocky field, encumbered with logs and charred stumps, between which bushes and a second growth of young trees were springing. Christie Redfern's Troubles The seriousness of the effect on the filling of the nuts is largely proportional to the amount and duration of this second growth. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 The few stands of original timber towered above the second growth like hills; those trees had been there when the planet had been colonized. The Cosmic Computer They calculated it would take about twenty-five years to cull out all the big timber and by that time there would be a second growth. Blue Ridge Country The second growths are shipped to the different markets of Europe, North and South America; and the third growth principally to Holland and Hamburgh. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner But when the second growth begun to show up red she had to revise her forecast. Torchy As A Pa If the second growth is plowed under, subsequent cultivation of the surface will further aid in completing the work of destruction. Clovers and How to Grow Them The second growth which has come up is scrubby, a wilderness of young trees and chaparral, through which progress was difficult and uninteresting. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains To secure second growth by treatment which threatens its destruction later is bad management unless the original saving is ample to cover subsequent greater cost of protection. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods In September the rains commenced, following the extreme drouth and started a second growth, and the freeze caught them November 22d as full of sap then as they were in September, when you were there. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 Continuing my random walk, I next paused in a low part of the woods, where the larger trees began to give place to a thick second growth that covered an old Bark-peeling. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The first growth of the clover was taken as hay, and the second growth as seed. Clovers and How to Grow Them For instance, a second growth sometimes develops during a favorable season with a large number of lateral buds growing out of it like spines. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin The very general second growth on deforested land where no aid has been given indicates that excellent results will follow slight assistance. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Quality.—Stock should be practically free from serious external imperfections, including late blight rot, common scab, sunburn, frost injury, bruises, knobbiness, second growth, etc. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 "Ah," said my Aunt Tabithy, as she smoothed the stocking-leg again, with a sigh, "there is, after all, but one youth-time; and if you put down its memories once, you can find no second growth." Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons When clover is plowed under it will usually be found more profitable to bury the second growth of the season than the first. Clovers and How to Grow Them It was said that the second hilling induced a second growth of roots higher up on the plant which produced small tubers. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside As an example, however, to indicate how the financial possibilities of second growth can be arrived at if a systematic study is made, let us take the Douglas fir figures referred to. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Now we are transplanting hardy ferns; for though the tender tops break, there is yet plenty of time for a second growth and rooting before winter. The Garden, You, and I The fine soft hair usually comes out and is replaced later by a second growth. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada This second growth is ready for being plowed under when time is less valuable than it would be when the mammoth or alsike varieties would be in season for being thus covered. Clovers and How to Grow Them Behind him and all around was the green wood, close-growing bushes hedging in the short trees of a second growth which covered a long low hill. The Mormon Prophet Indeed much land is now held without any regard to possible second growth. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods But they were second growth hardwood and birch, and had little in common with the splendor of the pines. Lydia of the Pines Likewise second growth sorghum or the second growth of the non-saccharine sorghums is full of hazard, especially in dry seasons when it has become stunted in growth. Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry The undergrowth was dense, except near the road; it was chiefly hazel, white thorn, dogwood, young cherry, and second growth hickory and oak. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm They left behind them the low thicket of second growth, and penetrated into an uncleared Missouri forest. The Mormon Prophet The moral of this does not apply to cutting alone, but argues equally for preventing fire in second growth. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods It was found that he held heavily mortgaged second growth timber lands in the northern part of the State and Kent spent a month superintending a re-survey of them. Lydia of the Pines About a quarter of a mile away there was a long grove of birch trees, the projecting spur of a second growth of forest that covered the distant rising ground. What Necessity Knows The amateur woodchopper will note a great difference between chopping a second growth chestnut and a tough old apple tree. Outdoor Sports and Games The going was not too difficult, for it was only second growth timber, poplar and birch, with spruce in the hollows. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest The owner with no peculiar advantages, who can only set the general certainty of a market for second growth against his ability to carry a costly and uncertain investment for an indeterminate time. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods The maple is indigenous to the forests of America, and wherever there has been opportunity for a second growth, this tree attains to a considerable size much sooner than might be imagined. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. She walked with quick accustomed step, parting the second growth in her way, having tracked me from the boat. Lazarre Modern people are Christian, and Christianity is a religion of second growth which opposes natural instinct. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal At this point an opening in the second growth of yellow pines permitted him a vista. The Rules of the Game Next to cultivation, which but a small percentage will receive, the safest insurance against recurring fires in these cut-over areas is a thrifty young second growth. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods The first mile or two from the Tavern is through avenues of second growth timber just tall enough to be delightful. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The tea named bing is the second growth, gathered in April, and siriglo is the last growth, gathered in May and June; both of these being gently dried over the fire in taches or pans. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The ground was thickly wooded with second growth and mesquite bush. The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits They knew that they would speedily discover the long deserted shack there among the second growth thicket of young trees. The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron This is less true of pine, but the very best protection which can be given a tract of merchantable fir is a strip of 10 to 50-year second growth surrounding it. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods What we see is largely second growth,—Banksian pine, fir, spruce, birch, and aspen. The New North To prepare the first type of field, a piece of forest land is chosen if possible, or lacking this, a plot covered with second growth is selected. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Along the brook a narrow path led through the dense second growth of a neglected clearing to the banana plantation and to the houses in it which the Rajah had given for residence to Omar. An Outcast of the Islands They told of more or less excitement; and coming with them was the sound of one or more persons pushing recklessly through the thickets that grew in many places as a second growth. The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron Where it accidentally does reforest, he makes a rough calculation of the value of the second growth, based upon no particular system and seldom alike in different counties. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Underneath the Long Trestle where Broderson Creek cut the line of the railroad and the Upper Road, the ground was low and covered with a second growth of grey green willows. The Octopus : A story of California The woods on either side were primeval, which are more easily penetrated than woods of the second growth, and we had no great difficulty in carrying our canoes through them. The Lost World In this windfall had grown up a second growth of timber, saplings and brush, so thick that it was hard work to get through or see a deer any distance. The Bark Covered House A stouter second growth of humanity has ousted them, save a few seedy ones who gad about the land, and centre at Oldtown, their village near Bangor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 It's a true wilderness, scrub-oak and cedar and second growth choked with underbrush, almost trackless. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf For the first half-hour the trail mounted steadily, then, by the old gravel-pits, it topped the divide and swung down over more open slopes, covered only with chaparral and second growths. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West The end of the portage is on the high rolling plateau of the interior, timbered by a sparse and stunted second growth of spruce, covered everywhere with white reindeer moss, and strewn with lakes innumerable. The Long Labrador Trail Side by side with this sedentary habit, curiously enough, came up a second growth of old-world, mediæval notions--a sort of aristocratic aftermath. In the Valley After the first strings are cut, a second growth fully as good as the first may be had by cleaning up the plants and top-dressing the soil with rotted manure. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) This is the fall or second growth, the dried grass having been burnt off by the Indians; and wherever the fire has passed, the bright, green color is universal. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources I'm afraid there's only second growth timber left; she carried away the great redwoods and all the giants of the wilderness this morning. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day The young Captain was a-foot weary, and he tarried in the second growth of the hill; but so brave a walker cannot be far behind. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish A few acres had been chopped over, letting in the light of the day upon the gloom of the forest, but the second growth was already shooting up, covering the area with high bushes. Satanstoe If the cultivator and plow are not used judiciously, a second growth will be started, which is not desirable. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Here I remarked, among the sage bushes, green bunches of what is called the second growth of grass. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources A second growth of young timber had grown up in this spot, which was covered also with raspberry bushes— several hundred acres being entirely overgrown with this delicious berry. Life in the Backwoods One should endeavor to get a piece of second growth, white sapwood, and split it so as to get straight grain. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow A great part of the country is still covered with wood, evidently a second growth, for, wherever the trees of the fir tribe are cut down or destroyed by fire, hard-wood trees spring up. The Englishwoman in America It is all through mantled over by a dense second growth of spruce and fir trees, intersected by a maze of avenues. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present All the mountains here are covered with a valuable nutritious grass, called bunch-grass, from the form in which it grows, which has a second growth in the fall. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The stubble must be ploughed to give the plant a start for the second growth whenever the weather will admit of it. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter We passed through a region which originally had been heavily forested, had long since been cleared, and was now covered with bushes and second growth. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Tufts of Karatas, top, spread their long prickly leaves among the bush of ‘rastrajo,’ or second growth after the primeval forest has been cleared, which dips suddenly right and left to the beach. At Last These people inhabit to a great extent the scrub-oak or black-jack forests, the second growth which has sprung up on exhausted plantations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 In the early days, the days of the first American commanders, military roads had been made through the forest,—roads even now smooth and solid, although trees of a second growth meet overhead. Castle Nowhere After passing through some low scrubby forest, very thick with tangled second growth, the clearings of the mestizoes were reached, about five miles below Santo Domingo. The Naturalist in Nicaragua A special bat is said to be made of wagon-tongue, but the more commonly favored is of ash, second growth, thoroughly seasoned. Healthful Sports for Boys The enemy had the cover not only of the woods, but of a second growth of pines, which fringed them and completely concealed the Rebel sharpshooters. His Sombre Rivals The fields, the lawn, and the garden were over-run with a second growth of wood that had nearly concealed the house from view. Nature and Human Nature You are blooming again like your Jack-roses when the second growth pushes them into flower. Taken Alive The soil at this place is good, and I think that it has been long cultivated, as much of the forest appears of second growth, in which small palms and prickly shrubs abound. The Naturalist in Nicaragua The "woods" that Meg spoke of were mostly underbrush and second growth of trees, with here and there a fine old oak that had escaped the wood-chopper's ax. Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island Her father had planned these grounds which he was allowing a riotous second growth to swallow up. The Prodigal Judge By intelligent thinning you can make an average income of five dollars per acre from ordinary second growth wild woods. Three Acres and Liberty A second growth of young timber had grown up in this spot, which was covered also with raspberry-bushes—several hundred acres being entirely overgrown with this delicious berry. Roughing It in the Bush As I wished to ascertain how these plants would behave during a second growth, they were cut down close to the ground whilst growing freely. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom The wood which we now mature, when it becomes virgin mould, determines the character of our second growth, whether that be oaks or pines. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The hay meadow, too, was green and purple with the second growth of clover. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail The stunted growth now seen is not even second growth but in many cases fourth or fifth or more. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware The forest was second growth, low, consisting of trees which had the general aspect of laurels and other evergreens in our gardens at home— the leaves glossy and dark green. The Naturalist on the River Amazons I was so much surprised at this great superiority of the self-fertilised over the crossed plants, that I determined to try how they would behave in one of the pots during a second growth. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom Not to "high coniferous trees in northern forests," — the Mecca of innumerable warblers — but to scrubby, second growth of woodland borders, or lower trees in the heart of the woods, do these dainty birds retreat. Bird Neighbors It was not a primeval forest, but a second growth of chestnuts and poplars and maples. The Blue Flower He saw below him, as Jackson had seen, a lonely stretch of country—a big field, once a wood-lot, evidently, as scattered about were some stumps and some second growth trees. Tom Swift and His Air Scout, or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky For some distance the woods were of second growth, the original forest near the town having been formerly cleared or thinned. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The woods around Baiao were of second growth, the ground having been formerly cultivated. The Naturalist on the River Amazons |
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