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  • Germination is a snap — I always have plenty to give away.

    The fragrant nocturnal moonflower « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008

  • Germination is begun by steeping the barley in water and halted by drying it in a kiln, traditionally and even today at least partially fueled by peat (party carbonized vegetation from a bog — the ancestor of coal).

    Archive 2006-01-01 Edward Willett 2006

  • Germination is begun by steeping the barley in water and halted by drying it in a kiln, traditionally and even today at least partially fueled by peat (party carbonized vegetation from a bog — the ancestor of coal).

    A wee dram o' chemical engineering Edward Willett 2006

  • But above all the rest, it is a very pretty kind of Germination which is afforded us in the Silver Tree, the manner of making which with Mercury and Silver, is well known to the Chymists, in which there is an Ebullition or Germination, very much like this of Mushroms, if I have been rightly inform'd of it.

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • Another work, titled 'Germination', attached to one whole side of the wall, is a composition of 15 smaller works - each varies between one and two feet.

    India eNews 2009

  • Candle, which, partly from the sticking of the smoaky particles as they are carryed upwards by the current of the rarify'd Air and flame, and partly also from a kind of Germination or Ebullition of some actuated unctuous parts which creep along and filter through some small string of the Week, are formed into pretty round and uniform heads, very much resembling the form of hooded Mushroms, which, being by any means expos'd to the fresh

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • Germination will occur under an alternating temperature cycle of 30°C daytime and 20°C nighttime temperatures.

    White fir 2009

  • Germination and early growth are best if seeds have fallen on bare mineral soil before the permanent snow cover has fallen.

    White fir 2009

  • Germination inhibitors can be a nuisance as well as a blessing.

    Mish Mashy Breakthroughs « Fairegarden 2009

  • Germination is best on mineral soil but in open sites the seeds germinate nearly as well on duff as on any other surface.

    Grand fir 2009

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