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'''Sand''' is a [[granular material]] made up of fine rock particles. Sand is a naturally occurring, f ...ring plant]]s use sand as an additive with a mixture of [[clay]] and other materials for manufacturing bricks.

[[Category:Granular materials]]

Synthesized materials are also called '''artificial''', and may be described as '''straight,''' w ...combined with the high cost of shipping, leads to use of locally available materials or those from the closest/cheapest source, which may vary with factors affe

...d, and improvement brought about, if the soil is heavy, by the use of such materials as ashes, sand, other soil, manure, and lime. A stiff clay which is being b ...f the land, improves the physical condition of the soil, rendering it more granular; it is useful for the improvement of the moisture relation as regards recep

''[[Farinaceous]]''. Containing starch, or starch-like materials. ''[[Granular]], granulose''. Covered with very small grains; minutely or finely mealy.

...rrow and the trees crowded; roadway and sidewalk are paved with impervious materials preventing both water and air getting into the soil, and effectually keepin ...of the horticulturist, the conifers also take a prominent place among the materials for landscape gardening effects, and, in the more practical use, as windbre

A compost pile is actually a fast-track method of changing crude organic materials into something resembling soil, called humus. But the word "humus" is often ...y a complex ecology of biological decomposition organisms.' As raw organic materials are eaten and re-eaten by many, many tiny organisms from bacteria (the smal

Sulfate of iron (copperas).—A greenish granular crystalline substance. Dissolve one hundred pounds in fifty gallons of wate ...ledge of the insect's habits and life- history, and any intelligent use of materials and apparatus, are essential in any successful effort to control these bud-

Peat fiber, sphagnum moss and leaf-mold constitute the principal materials of good compost, usually lasting one or two years without renewal, which is ...or reduced to staminodia, united with the pistil; pollen-grains compound, granular, or aggregated into masses (pollinia) which are either free in the anther o