Bottle containing zinc cuttings and water and fitted with a cap and two tubes, the one marked B, containing a funnel, conveys the sulphuric acid to the zinc and water, whilst the gas escapes through the pipe C.
Hydrogen is prepared in a very simple manner, by placing some zinc cuttings in a bottle, to which is attached a cork and pewter or bent glass tube, and pouring upon the metal some dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid.
The varieties are most easily propagated by cuttingsplanted in the autumn, which root rapidly, and in a few years form good fruit-bearing bushes.
Cuttings from the parent plant of a prize Gooseberry become in great request; and thus the pedigree scions of a single bush have been known to yield as much as thirty-two pounds sterling to their possessor.
Gardeners often avail themselves of the power that the roots have of producing buds to propagate plants by cuttings of the roots, but in many of these cases the organ "parted" or cut is really an underground stem and not a true root.
After three years all the young plants raised from cuttings were double-flowered.
With reference tocuttings a curious circumstance has been observed, viz.
The last column gives the percentage of occurrence in the piles of cuttings of each species of plant in the area.
Analysis of the cuttings (see table 2) indicates that alfalfa was eaten in greater quantity than any other plant; it made up almost three quarters of the cuttings although but one quarter of the cover.
Voles in grasslands feed in runways, as attested by the piles of cuttings found in the runways and the nibbled grass which borders them.
The cuttings that have accumulated at the base of the plant may be eaten, but frequently they remain as evidence of the vole's feeding activity.
Some of the cuttings may have been made by lemming mice (Synaptomys cooperi) which were also common in the area.
In the latter type of cover the cuttings are rather evenly distributed.
Wherever a path of the voles crossed a deep imprint of a horse's hoof, there was a collection of cuttings from the horizontal stems of the clover which bordered the runways.
All other plants occurred less commonly in the piles of cuttingsthan they did in the estimated composition of the cover.
Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap.
Defn: A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side.
Prune the vines in the fall or early winter, and make the cuttings as soon as convenient; for if the wood is not kept perfectly fresh and green, the cuttings will fail to grow.
The next question to be considered is: Shall we plant cuttings or rooted plants?
The cuttings may be put close in the rows, say an inch apart, and the rows made two feet apart.
After the pots have been filled with cuttings they are placed in a temperature of from 40° to 45°, where they remain from two to three weeks, water being applied only enough to keep them moist, not wet.
Some of the cuttings will always fail, and there will be gaps and vacancies which are hard to fill, even if the strongest plants are taken for replanting.
As to the merits or demerits of plants grown under glass from single eyes, to those grown from cuttings or layers in open ground, opinions differ very much, and both have their advocates.
Every variety of grape can be propagated by this method with the greatest ease, even those which only grow with the greatest difficulty, or not at all, from cuttings in open ground.
Fall-pruning will prevent all flow of sap, and the cuttings are also better if made in the fall, and buried in the ground during winter.
Very difficult to propagate, as it will hardly grow fromcuttings in open air.
The early Greek literature is so scantily provided with illustrations drawn from botanical study, that it is worth considering the remarkable comparison of generation of plants from cuttings and from seeds in the same work.
It is said that sponges can be propagated by cuttings taken from living specimens, which, when properly attached to a piece of board and sunk in the sea, will increase and multiply.
Plants may be readily propagated by cutting up the roots into pieces, say 1/4-inch long and placing these root cuttings in boxes of loamy sand in the autumn.
These cuttings should be made in September or October and placed in boxes of sand over winter.
That is, I have found their blazes, secret cuttings on trees in remote sections.
I hear that timber-pirates have been making some cuttings above here, and I wish you to go along as a witness to what I may find.
Ye shall not make any cuttingsin your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you.
When this is done, the vinegar and the salt are added; and last of all, at the moment it is to be served up, the cuttings of bread.
This is an Indian pudding, sometimes with, and sometimes without suet, with dried cuttings of sweet apples mixed with it; and when eaten with butter, it is most delicious Food.
The soup should never be suffered to boil, or even to stand long before it is served up after the cuttings of bread are put into it.
They left the dam well repaired, a new house, and a pile of green aspen cuttings in the pond.
Hence, in order to grow or to bring back a forest, it is necessary to get seeds, sprouts, or cuttings upon the ground.
A hole was cut in the ice midway between the beaver house and the food-pile,--a pile of green aspen cuttings about twelve feet away from the house.
The quantity recommended is about right as far as my experience goes (which is of several years duration) if the cuttings are placed about two inches apart.
After this the potato cuttings are planted and covered over with the plough or hoe.
You see all this is very simple when one reads the whole; but in cuttings like those of the Government Attorney, the smallest word becomes a mountain.
You do not wish a man to be judged upon a few cuttings more or less skilfully made.
You will agree, Mr. Attorney, that with cuttings artistically made, one can go far in the way of incriminating.
The Hindus usually wrap up a child's first hair in a ball of dough and throw it into a running stream, with the cuttings of his nails.
In Mandla at a wedding the barber comes and cuts the bride's nails, and the cuttings are rolled up in dough and placed in a little earthen pot beside the marriage-post.
Both forms were extensively propagated during several years by cuttings and kept perfectly true.
In St. Domingo, varieties of the China rose propagated by cuttings often revert after a year or two into the old China rose.
Cultivated as above described, the plants afford frequent cuttings of large clean cress of excellent flavour for market purposes.
If the start is made in late spring, the cuttings will be rooted in a week.
They are readily propagated by seeds, cuttings or divisions.
If then the cuttings should go on for ever, or practically until the pieces to be cut off are too small, and if this take place all round, the figure last obtained will be a good representation of a circle of four inches radius.
If this process can be indefinitely continued, thecuttings must become smaller and smaller, for the following reason.
Even a single sowing, well timed, will generally furnish cuttings through the most favorable part of the season.
It may be well here to remind those who grow only a few plants in a garden, and who wish to prolong the season, that several cuttings may be taken from a single head if desired.
The cuttings are usually from twelve to eighteen inches in length, but it is judged that the shorter they are, the better.
In the British sugar islands the cuttings for planting “are commonly the tops of the canes which have been ground for sugar[151].
If they are short, and one piece of cane rots, the space which remains vacant is not so large as when the cuttings are long, and they by any accident fail.
It is not planted in trenches, but holes are dug at equal distances from each other, in which the cuttings are laid.
The trenches being prepared, the cuttings are laid longitudinally in the bottom of them, and are covered with the greatest part of the mould which had been taken out of the trench.
By permission of the publishers and the author we reprint two cuttings from stories in "Emmy Lou.
New York, we reprint cuttingsfrom two of these stories.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuttings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anthology; archives; clipping; collection; cutting; flowers; fragment; gleaning; miscellany
