But when she saw him, as he sat there with his back curved and his feet turned inward, causing bulbs to appear and disappear on the soft leather of his riding boots where they covered his big toes, nothing better occurred to her.
Up in a loft surrounded by an iron netting, the wheels of a machine whirled, and vari-coloured electric bulbs glittered among them.
A row of electric bulbs let into the frieze of the walls between the golden capitals, and burning dimly behind hemispheres of clouded glass, threw a subdued light over the whole scene.
Glass bulbs took graceful and varying shapes before her vision, now rounding into globes, now evolving into hour-glasses, now twisting into pretzel-shaped convolutions.
The scene was gay, the electric bulbs sparkled, the wine flashing back the light.
The Israelites were willing to return to slavery and brick-making for their love of the Onion; and we read that Hecamedes presented some of the bulbs to Patrochus, in Homer, as a regala.
The juice from the bulbscan be employed for cementing broken glass or china, by means of its mucilage.
An extract of the bulbs when applied to open wounds has produced staggering, numbness of the whole nervous system, and paralysis of the heart.
When the duplicate letters arrived some colored bulbs accompanied them, a suggestion of Jolly.
Broken bulbs and jagged ends of wires trailed over its face.
The bulbsstore better than Swedes, and, according to some farmers, keep even better than mangels.
Footnote 33: Unless when Kohl-rabi is cultivated, for thebulbs of this plant may be preserved in good condition up to June.
By storing, too, thebulbs lose a portion of their excessive amount of water, and become less bulky, which is unquestionably a desideratum.
It is customary to allow tender bulbs of this kind to rest during the winter, the same as one would an onion.
Any of the above named bulbs are especially desirable for house culture in winter.
Bulbs intended for fall blooming, should be planted in the open ground from the first to the middle of May; plant them about two inches deep.
Of course bulbs intended for winter blooming must rest, or be kept from growing during the summer, and bulbs to be in bloom in April or May, must be started in January or February in pots.
A complete treatise on the history description, methods of propagation and full directions for the successful culture of bulbs in the garden, dwelling and green-house.
After the bulbs are through blooming, they may be left in the soil in which they grew through the winter, and removed to a dry place to rest, in preparation for starting them another fall.
In the fall remove the bulbs from the ground as soon as the tops have been touched by frost, cutting the stalk off to within a couple of inches of the base, and setting the bulbs away to rest for the winter.
Planting the bulbs so that, when in blossom, the whole would present a harmonious effect.
These bulbs can be started in pots, or glasses filled with water, and treated in the same manner as stated above.
If a continuation of bloom is desired, the bulbs should be planted at successive intervals of not less then three weeks; this will give a sucession of bloom throughout the entire season.
Experience has shown me that the earlier in spring those summerbulbs are set out in the open ground, the better.
If fresh bulbs are desired for this purpose, the old ones may be planted out in the open ground, where they will again renew their strength, and bloom annually for a number of years.
The same bulbs can be used a number of years, but they are not so good as fresh ones, which should be obtained each year if possible.
It would be hard to conceive of a more attractive sight than that presented by all those bulbs in full bloom in early April, when every thing else looked barren and cheerless.
The flower bulbs had soon played their part, but he had years of apprenticeship before him.
One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other things a chest filled with valuable flower bulbs was washed ashore.
In very early days, when animated with the courage of utter ignorance, I bought eight bulbs of Disa discolor, and flowered them, every one!
But evidently it would be better, if convenient, to take thebulbs indoors before frost sets in.
He will try his luck once more perhaps this season; and then he will pot the bulbs unsold to offer them as "established" next year.
I venture to say, indeed, that no garden on earth can be more lovely than mine while the forget-me-not and the bulbs are flowering together.
This error was not so strange as its seems, for the Assamese variety has pseudo-bulbs much less sturdy than those we are used to see, and they are quite pendulous.
From week to week the value of these things fluctuates--that is, of course, of bulbsimported and unestablished.
If you would beat Nature, as here, making invariably such bulbs and flowers as she produces only under rare conditions, you must follow this system.
Their growths of this year are verdant, but the old bulbs look almost as sapless as those new arrivals.
Its snakey pseudo-bulbs measure nine feet, and the old flower spikes stood eighteen feet high.
Probably I shall sever the bulbswithout disturbing them, and in seasons following two spikes will push--then three, then a number, multiplying and multiplying when my remotest posterity is extinct.
A few of the bulbs gathered lived through the passage home, and caused much excitement when offered for sale at Stevens' Auction Rooms.
This mould was then removed by means of a hoe, and the use of the watering-pot, and the bulbs of course left wholly out of the ground.
A pattern of red, green, and amber lights from recessed glass bulbs flashed across its smooth metal hide.
He passed unlocked doors, but the green bulbsabove them were unlighted.
I showed him the same kind of bulbs in my shelves which I was selling at 15 cents.
Wes Kennedy came into my shop one day and showed me some auto light bulbshe had bought at Sweetwater at 20 cents each.
It contained small electricbulbs of different colors, harmoniously selected, and gave beauty to the large square hall as well as a thrill to some of the pupils.
Cuttings of the young shoots taken off when the old bulbs are started are easily struck in a propagating frame, and are afterwards potted and treated like young seedlings.
BULBS IN THE GRASS One of the most delightful phases of bulb-growing is that of the cultivation of hardy species in the grass.
It is safer to put some dry leaves or other light material over the bulbs in severe winters, removing this when the leaves come through.
They should have a warm, dry border, where the bulbs will ripen off well.
After putting in thebulbs the glasses ought to be placed in a cool, dark place, until the roots make their appearance, when they may be brought into the light.
One desirable way is not to keep all the early flowering bulbs near the front of the border, as one would naturally do, because of their dwarf habit, but to plant them so as to give balance in the border at the different seasons.
They like a compost of sandy loam and fibrous peat in lumps, with some sphagnum and small pieces of charcoal, keeping the soil and bulbs a little above the top of the pots, with a surfacing of cocoa-fibre or sphagnum.
Although a plant which can be flowered in the open border if the bulbs are started and grown on for some time under glass, it requires a considerable amount of heat to flower it properly at other seasons.
I had put the bulbs in a closet under the staircase till we thought of changing quarters, and then I removed them so as to pack them.
He had offered to help Salome, but he was doing nothing of the kind; he waited till she had filled the glasses with water, planted a couple of bulbs in them, and consigned them to the depths of the cupboard.
Oh, thank you,' she replied, 'I am merely taking the glasses and bulbs to the Pummy cupboard again.
Well, I will put down the glasses and bulbs in the Pummy cupboard and return to hear your story.
Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer Flowering Bulbshave a world-wide reputation.
Dealing in them became a kind of speculation, and tulip bulbs were bought and sold on the exchange, as stocks are now, without changing hands at all.
The bulbs were grown in Holland, and were sold for fabulous prices.
Lilies grow from bulbs which are planted six inches beneath the surface.
Marilaun reports that a certain lawn in Vienna was mown so frequently that tulips could not go to seed, but after twenty years, from a very few bulbs planted near each other, a space twenty paces in diameter was well covered by tulips.
Splendid Summer-Flowering Bulbs for each of those who Subscribe, at a Cost of Only 5 cts.
We offer bulbs for blooming at once, and seed which soon makes flowering plants.
We have also two pots of Hyacinths with 3 bulbs in each pot, which have just been brought up from the cellar, and are now beginning to show growth.
The club-raiser may elect one of the following fine Plants or Bulbs for =every subscriber= sent us, and same will be mailed free.
We have made up a Collection of 10 very choice and beautiful Summer-Flowering Bulbs as sort of a premium or present to those who subscribe this season.
These will come into bloom before the first Holland bulbs are ready for the window, and will remain in full beauty for several weeks.
The bulbs from which these lilies grew were kept in the dark for ten days.
Do not connect the lights to the magneto as it will result in burning out the bulbs and might discharge the magnets.
The headlampbulbs are of 6-8 volt, double filament type.
Tadpoles and freshwater fishes have similar bulbs in their skin, and it is thought they enjoy the taste of things around them without the necessity of taking them in at the mouth.
Birds and reptiles have no taste bulbs in their papillæ.
Others, like the crocus, had tiny bulbs formed on the outside, and then there were bulblets which had formed above the ground, just where the leaf joins the stalk.
So all the seeds and bulbs and roots were put away for the winter, except a few that Davy and Prue planted in some pots for their window-gardens.
And in this way both the windows were to be very different from the winter before, and many new things were to be learned in seeing the seeds and the bulbs and the roots sprout and grow and bloom.
The bulbs and roots were also put into dry boxes in the basement, and the different kinds labelled in large plain letters by Davy, who could print very nicely indeed.
Some, like those of the Easter lily, had small bulbs formed inside of them.
The boys looked at the Professor, and he and John exchanged smiling glances, and both of them took the bulbs and began the meal with them in the most nonchalant manner.
When Chief had admired himself sufficiently he took the bulbs to the kitchen and placed them in the oven, as the boys called it, and when George came in he was smiling, as he thought, in a very peculiar way.
The Professor saw the bulbs and picked up one of them and glanced about the room, and then looked at John in a questioning way.
The bulbs and perennials sown the year before were an experiment.
When the bulbs came, in October, we looked at the boxes sadly.
We set the Narcissus poeticus bulbs where, if they grew, the flowers could look at themselves in the mirror below the dam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
