On their crumbling facades grime, mildew and the seedlings of various trees and ferns jostle for space.
The stories she heard from neighbors there became the seedlings of the groundbreaking literary study "An Investigation of the Chinese Peasantry," which she and Mr. Chen wrote in 2003.
The fact that this didn't come to pass for another 50 years makes you realise that, within the detritus of that first "lost" decade, were the seedlings of important new beginnings.
For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet state, hyperinflation, and even wide-scale civil disorder, threaten to uproot the seedlings of civil society from the Russian earth.
Quick growing but short-lived, it seeds prolifically, providing burned or abandoned areas with a ground cover that protects the seedlings of more permanent trees.
For example, most tree species require openings in the forest canopy (canopy gaps) in order to receive sufficient light to attain a mature size and stature, but the seedlings of different tree species show very different requirements for light.
Though Fox News has of late become the thrust of his political power in the United States, as well as a major source of revenue, his newspapers were the seedlings of his vast media enterprise.
The seedlings of K. obovata were therefore protected by warmer seawater.
The seedlings of R. japonicus were exposed to control or 20μMM Cu2+ for 6 d under hydroponic conditions.
After 1-year growth, the seedlings of C. paliurus were cut from the bottom in March 2011 for coppice management.
The seedlings of 1.5-year-old P. aphrodite subsp. formosana cultivar TS97 were purchased from TaiSugar Corporation (Tainan, Taiwan).
