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• On the other hand, a vine with a small and/or unhealthy root system, be it due to shallow soil, drought, root pests such as phylloxera, or diseases such as armillaria root rot, will support only low-vigour growth.
• This armilla (?) was not found in Northumberland, but in Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• The words by Yang Xiong, the great litterateur and astronomer in the Han Dynasty, and the records on the book of Shiji and Jiu Tangshu can prove that it was Luoxia Hong who created armillary sphere.
• An armillary sphere basically allows you to find the position of an object in the sky in relation to the celestial equator, (equatorial AS or 赤道经纬仪) or the ecliptic (the path of the sun across the sky) (ecliptical AS or 黄道经纬仪). Archive 2007-02-01
• In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
• Urania is represented by the armillary sphere, Euterpe by flutes, Thalia by the rebec, Melpomene by the hunting horn, Terpsichore by the cittern, Erato by the jingle ring, and Polyhymnia by the organ. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• London was preceded by a quick trip to visit friends in Oxford, where I reacquainted myself with the Radcliffe Camera and the Ashmolean Museum, and saw a tiny, perfect exhibition of armillary spheres and other navigational and scientific instruments exquisitely fashioned of brass at the Museum of the History of Science or Old Ashmolean. London
• Developing fan-shaped mat of fungal strands caused by armillaria root rot at base of sycamore trunk
• In stands of all ages, armillaria root disease can kill individual trees or cause large centres of mortality.
• A passer-by found the doll, which resembled a three-month-old fetus, on a sidewalk in the town of Armilla, near Granada, on July 4 and called emergency center.