seed boxn.

1677 R. Hooke Lampas 47 I received..a Relation of some later discoveries of his, which seemed much to outstrip even this, whether the comparative magnitude of the Plant, and of the Seeds, or the number of the Seeds, or the curiosity of the Seed-boxes, [etc.].

1762 J. Cook New Theory Generation 69 Several Seed Boxes pendent on the Tips of the Chives of the Flower, analogous to the Animal Testes.

1809 Philos. Mag. 34 149 Both [new genera] differ from the ordinary justicia, from their capsule being divided into forked valves; and the partition between the seed-boxes is but imperfect.

1899 A. M. Earle Child Life in Colonial Days 388 It doesn't seem like the same thing to hear these beloved little seed-boxes described as ‘a pyxis, or a capsule with a circumscissile dehiscence’.

1940 E. R. Spencer Just Weeds iii. 231 With many globular seed boxes filled with seeds strung along the stem below the few flowers, the plant [sc. moth mullein] is conspicuously nothing but a weed.

1997 A. Wilson Nature Photogr. through Four Seasons 104/2 As the fruits dry the tension in the springs increases until finally it pulls away the seed boxes and flings out the seeds.

2001 Times 22 Sept. (Weekend section) 16 Among annual kinds, the fleshy-leaved opium poppy has the finest seed boxes.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 147 Of these [parts of the Drill] the Seed-Box is the chief; it measures (or rather numbers) out the Seed which it receives from the Hopper.

1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) §2679 The seed-box being elevated or depressed accordingly, so as to render the distribution of the seed regular.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 320/1 [In the machine for broadcast sowing] motion is communicated to a spindle which revolves in the seed-box, and expels the seed by means of cogs or brushes.

1944 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 163/2 Place the oats in the seed-box and set the feed-regulating device at the planting rate of 45lb., or six pecks, per acre.

2001 Farm Jrnl. Mar. (Special Feature Page) 25/3 Improvements to the row units include new seed-box lids.

1754 J. Justice Scots Gardiners Director 213 Seeds sown in June will be good Plants before the Winter comes on, and in March thereafter will be fit to transplant from the Seed-boxes.

1847 J. F. Cooper Crater I. vii. 102 They took that occasion to..give the seed-boxes a close examination.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 64/2 If it comes from the nurseryman or originates in your seed box, it will prefer a mixture of three parts leafmold to one part sand.

1959 Illustr. London News 3 Oct. 364/1 The peak of excitement until now was due to finding that a whole seed-box full of lily seeds had, after nearly two years, germinated.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 7 May (Home section) 22/3 You can sow the seeds into a seed box.

1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 19 Ludwigia..seed-box.

1820 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 49 Ludwigia macrocarpa. Large-capsuled Seed-box, or Ludwigia.

1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 6 142 Ludwigia alternifolia, seed-box.

1917 Standard Cycl. Hort. (ed. 2) I. 61/2 Water-purslane, Seed-box or Rattle-box.

1968 W. C. Grimm How to recognize Flowering Wild Plants 185 Wand-like seedbox (Ludwigia virgata). Seedboxes have the 4 calyx lobes, and their 4 petals and stamens seated on the summit of the ovary, which later becomes a little box-like capsule full of tiny seeds.

1999 R. W. Tiner Wetland Indicators ix. 300 Other herbs that can be found in these wetlands are orchids (Habenaria),..seedboxes (Ludwigia), pitcher plants (Sarracenia), and sundews (Drosera).

2004 M. Choukas-Bradley Illustr. Guide Eastern Woodland Wildflowers & Trees 148 Seedbox is a summer wildflower of Sugarloaf's springs.