Like autumn leaves, the fanfare of canonical history, in Marshall's hands, becomes fertilizer for next season's growth — one style begetting the next amendment.
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Propagation can be carried out by using cuttings from firm, 'fresh', current season's growth.
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The cultivar prefers a moist well-drained soil and a sunny or partly shaded situation. Propagation is from semi-mature cuttings of the current season's growth.
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Take the tips from the current season's growth from actively growing plants. Transport wrapped in wet newspaper in a sealed plastic bag, and preferably refrigerated. Trim cuttings to 5–10 cm in length and dip in rooting hormone. Use intermittent mist and bottom heat.
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Management tasks performed on The Riddy include the coppicing of the small osier bed which stimulates new growth, grazing with cattle to remove each season's growth and to maintain the grassland habitats, along with the removal ('pulling') of ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) which is poisonous to certain animals, notably the grazing cattle, when ingested.
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Eremaea ebracteata is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrow, mostly linear leaves and which bears orange-coloured flowers on the long branches of the same season's growth. The fruits have a surface that is rough and lumpy.
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When it comes to vegetative propagation of Hablitzia, there are a couple of options. One is to lift and divide established plants, as you would other clump-forming perennials. The best time to do this is once the current season's growth has died back or early the following season before they have started into active growth. Cuttings can also be successful.
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Erica cerinthoides requires a position in full sun with good drainage, and acidic soil. It is frost sensitive, but can regrow following damage. Plants can be propagated from cuttings of current season's growth with a heel of older wood. They can also be grown from seed. In the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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Albany Woollybush is grown for its silvery foliage, rather than its relatively insignificant flowers, though the latter produce copious nectar that attracts honeyeaters. Although it is from a dry summer climate, it adapts to humid summer conditions. It prefers a position in full sun or part shade and freely draining light soil. Plants can be propagated relatively easily from cuttings of semi-mature current season's growth.
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They are adapted by developing leaves that repel water, and are called laurophyll or lauroid leaves. Flowers grow on a terminal inflorescence with many panicles on the current season's growth. The panicles grow in clusters of ten or more, reaching or longer, holding hundreds of small white, yellow, or green flowers that are distinctively fragrant. The lychee bears fleshy fruits that mature in 80–112 days depending on climate, location, and cultivar.
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The tree loses its leaves in the dry season and the flowers develop on bare branches, just below the new season's growth. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a branched peduncle up to long, each branch of the peduncle usually with seven buds, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering occurs from August to November and the flowers are creamy white.
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Less common, but just as effective, is propagation by semi-hardwood cuttings. Branches consisting of the current or last season's growth can be cut into 30 cm sections and planted in a moist potting mixture. This method is slower than seed propagation (cuttings take a few months to root) but is the preferred method for ensuring new trees are true to form. As such, cuttings are a particularly common method of propagation for the rarer yellow-flowering variety of the tree.
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In general it may be stated that such woods of medium growth afford stronger material than when very rapidly or very slowly grown. In many uses of wood, total strength is not the main consideration. If ease of working is prized, wood should be chosen with regard to its uniformity of texture and straightness of grain, which will in most cases occur when there is little contrast between the latewood of one season's growth and the earlywood of the next.
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The scion, taken from dormant wood of the previous season's growth, is cut to a wedge shape at the end and inserted into the cut between the cotyledons, so that the cambium surfaces of each can join. The grafted plant is then set in a rooting medium with the union about 1.5 inch below the surface. This graft allows the scion to live on the seed's roots long enough to form adventitious roots of its own. This technique is used for camellias, avocados, and chestnuts.
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Described by Ken Newbey as "an outstanding ornamental species with average foliage and very attractive in flower", A. obovatus was first grown in Great Britain in 1824, and is the most commonly cultivated Adenanthos species in Australia. It flowers for most of the year, is an excellent attractor of honeyeaters, and grows in a range of climates. Propagation is by cuttings of the current season's growth, from which it strikes readily, and subsequently makes fairly quick growth. Despite its natural occurrence in damp locations, in cultivation it grows best in a light, well-drained soil.
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Earlywood and latewood in a ring-porous wood (ash) in a Fraxinus excelsior; tangential view, wide growth rings In ring- porous woods, each season's growth is always well defined, because the large pores formed early in the season abut on the denser tissue of the year before. In the case of the ring-porous hardwoods, there seems to exist a pretty definite relation between the rate of growth of timber and its properties. This may be briefly summed up in the general statement that the more rapid the growth or the wider the rings of growth, the heavier, harder, stronger, and stiffer the wood. This, it must be remembered, applies only to ring-porous woods such as oak, ash, hickory, and others of the same group, and is, of course, subject to some exceptions and limitations.
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Fundamentally, the below-ground carbon accumulation works as a GHG mitigation tool because it removes carbon from the above-ground carbon circulation (the circulation from plant to atmosphere and back into plant.) The above-ground circulation is driven by photosynthesis and combustion—first, the miscanthus fields absorb CO2 and assimilates it as carbon in its tissue both above and below ground. When the above-ground carbon is harvested and then burned, the CO2 molecule is formed yet again and released back into the atmosphere. However, an equivalent amount of CO2 (and possibly more, if the biomass is expanding) is absorbed back by next season's growth, and the cycle repeats. This above-ground cycle has the potential to be carbon neutral, but of course the human involvement in operating and guiding the above-ground CO2 circulation means additional energy input, often coming from fossil sources.
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