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The finest Epiphyllums have been grown in a soil which consists almost wholly of a light fibry loam, with the addition of a little crushed bones.
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From the outer poles rafters sprang to the centre-posts, and across them were laid rows of laths over which a fibry web of sod was thrown, and the whole thatched with straw or rushes.
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If a sweet, new, fibry loam, mixed with broken bricks or cinders, be used to pot these plants in, they may then be left undisturbed at the root for several years.
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They require a strong, fibry, loamy soil, with a little rotten manure worked in.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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We are close alongside of a wharf, and still a capital and faithful copy of a Scotch mist wraps houses, trees and sloping uplands in a fibry fantastic veil, and the cold drizzle seems to curdle the spirits and energies of the few listless Malays and half-caste boys and men who are lounging about.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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A layer of rough fibry material should be placed over the crocks to prevent the finer soil from stopping the drainage.
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It is of a deep cup-shape, very compactly built of flowering grass and stems of herbaceous plants intermixed with fibry twigs, and lined with the small fibry-looking branchlets of grass-panicles.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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It was placed on the ground, among low scrub, near the outskirts of a large forest, and was neatly made, for a _Pomatorhinus_, of bamboo-leaves and long grass, with a thin lining of fibry strips torn from old bamboo-stems.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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It is a neat, saucer-shaped structure, somewhat triangular, to fit well up to the fork, built of fibry roots, and firmly bound to the branches by spiders 'webs.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The nest, which is well described by Mr. Davison, is made of black, fibry roots, sparingly lined with fine grass-stalks, and covered outwardly with small pieces of lichens bound to the sides with cobwebs.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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