IT'S spring, and a new crop of police surveillance cameras is sprouting in cities big and small.

They hope the crops will sprout and all will be well again in Defalk.

Scattered crops sprouted from troughs in the crystal, and a phosphorescent coating on the nets gave the room a dim, lavender glow.

To accommodate visitors, a crop of country inns has sprouted in the area, the most ambitious of which is the Frenchtown Inn.

You couldn't plow ground that soft, let alone get crops to sprout in it.

A new crop of publications has sprouted here in the last year or so, a wide-ranging collection of quarterlies, bimonthlies and weeklies.

But a new crop sprouted.

At the very least, a new crop of anti-Florio bumper stickers would have sprouted along the highways like kudzu.

Though initially crops sprouted quickly and lushly, they just as quickly wilted and died seemingly without reason.

Tenochtitlan's fringe of chinampa had been underwater for four days, at the season when the crops of maize, beans, and other staples were just sprouting.