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Example sentences for "deciduous"

Lexicographically close words:
decided; decidedly; decides; deciding; decidua; decima; decimal; decimals; decimam; decimate
  1. The great wildernesses of the deciduous trees lie below, mantling the ridges and hollows.

  2. Below the edges of these iced forests, stood the deciduous trees of the mountains, brown and bare.

  3. The treelets found that their day had come, and seizing upon these rich but shallow soil beds, soon covered them with thickets of spindling lodgepole pines and deciduous brush.

  4. Seedling Orchids, as a rule, require little or no resting season until after their first flowering, and Cattleyas, Laeliocattleyas, and other evergreen hybrids require a rather shorter period of rest than deciduous species.

  5. A section of Phaius with erect, terete stems and deciduous leaves.

  6. They should be rested cool and dry with the deciduous Dendrobiums.

  7. The Catasetums are curious, epiphytal Orchids, which should be grown in baskets, or Orchid pans, suspended in the intermediate house, and treated in a similar manner to the deciduous Dendrobiums.

  8. The deciduous class is exemplified by D.

  9. All the species thrive in a warm, intermediate house, with cooler rest for the deciduous and highland species.

  10. A large number of Burmese and Indian, highland Orchids, such as Dendrobium moschatum, the section of deciduous Bulbophyllums which includes B.

  11. The deciduous species need to be kept dry when at rest.

  12. Wardianum, and other deciduous Dendrobiums are grown.

  13. Rest the deciduous section dry after flowering, and repot them when growth commences in spring.

  14. These are deciduous epiphytes, needing similar cultivation to Catasetum.

  15. Rest the deciduous species in dry and cooler conditions.

  16. The soil conditions should imitate as closely as possible those seen in thrifty deciduous forest.

  17. The soil should be well drained and capable of a thrifty growth of deciduous trees.

  18. Farther up in the rock pile stood a grove of deciduous trees with light verdure, but with cut tops and white trunks, as though whitewashed with lime by fostering human hand.

  19. The syringings must be continued, and care taken that plants of a deciduous or herbaceous nature are not over watered.

  20. Patches or plats of grass studded with shrubs, deciduous and evergreen, are indispensable, and perhaps one or two grass walks.

  21. Any of the rare deciduous trees may, by the above method, be grafted on one of its own family, that is more common, and in that respect is the finest species of propagation that is resorted to.

  22. In fact, the pruning of deciduous hardy shrubs should be done in such a manner as not to be observable when the plants are covered with verdure.

  23. Finish planting all deciduous shrubs in the early part of the month.

  24. Deciduous plants may be treated in a similar manner.

  25. A soil of common good qualities, moderately light and mellow, will grow most of the hardy herbaceous flowers, and the evergreen and deciduous ornamental shrubs.

  26. Atragene alpina, is a free growing deciduous shrub, with large blush-coloured flowers, which continue blooming from May to July; has small pinnated foliage.

  27. Herbaceous and deciduous plants will seldom need water.

  28. We have several others from the east, but being deciduous are perfectly hardy.

  29. The tuberous rooted and deciduous species must be very moderately supplied.

  30. The one we will describe is whip or tongue grafting, which is the preferable and most expeditious plan with all deciduous shrubs or trees.

  31. It has a handsome deciduous foliage; the leaves are of ovate-oblong shape, rather sharply pointed, and from five to six inches long.

  32. This is a very handsome deciduous climbing species from North America.

  33. This is a handsome deciduous tree that does well in many parts of the country, and is valued for the rich profusion of white flowers produced, and which are well set-off by the finely-cut pinnate leaves.

  34. A handsome and deciduous Californian shrub, but scarcely hardy enough for the open air without protection.

  35. This is a small deciduous shrub, with ovate leaves, and short racemes of pretty pure white flowers.

  36. This Mediterranean species is of stout growth, with narrow Laurel-like leaves, reddish deciduous bark, and greenish-white flowers that are produced freely in May.

  37. Kamtschatika is a deep-red flowered form with deciduous spines.

  38. It is a small-growing, deciduous species, with yellow flowers, that are neither scented nor showy.

  39. This is a free-growing, round-headed, deciduous bush, of from 6 feet to 8 feet high when fully grown.

  40. The deciduous calyx would seem to be the only reliable distinguishing character.

  41. This is a really handsome and distinct species, with twiggy, deciduous branches, from the undersides of the arching shoots of which the flowers hang in great profusion.

  42. This is a neat, deciduous shrub of 3 feet or 4 feet in height.

  43. Under a less copious rainfall deciduous forests appear, containing teak and sal (Shorea robusta) and a great variety of other valuable trees.

  44. Then follow deciduous broad-leaved forests, and finally firs, spruces and larches.

  45. Deciduous growth of the lower slopes gives way to redwoods and Shasta fir.

  46. Do the leaves of the pines and of the other evergreen trees fall at the end of the growing season, as the leaves of most of the deciduous trees do?

  47. The leaves of the maples and other deciduous trees are borne only on the present season's growth; but this is not the case in the pines, and kindred trees.

  48. The different seasons' growth is indicated not by distinct "rings" as in the case of deciduous trees, but by the branching.

  49. Generally the pines and deciduous trees grow upon different tracts, while even the oak, birch, and aspen severally display a marked tendency to occupy separate areas of their own.

  50. Among the Coniferae of Upper Miocene age is found a deciduous cypress nearly allied to the Taxodium distichum of North America, and a Glyptostrobus (Figure 144), very like the Japanese G.

  51. Dawson to have a coniferous structure, so that some Coniferae of the Coal period grew in the same swamps as Sigillariae, just as now the deciduous Cypress (Taxodium distichum) abounds in the marshes of Louisiana even to the edge of the sea.

  52. Now, although steadily unresponsive to this wile, I am sometimes guilty of taking the enclosed specimen review and thrusting it for preservation among the scarcely less deciduous leaves of the book it was written to appraise.

  53. In deciduous woodland there is probably some undergrowth of Hazel, or of Bramble and wild Honeysuckle.

  54. In the first four of these genera the lower incisors are present (at least to a certain age), in the last three they are deciduous even in youth.

  55. Below this altitude the woods are composed of deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed trees and shrubs, mingled together in a profusion of species.

  56. Watch the size and the sap flow so that the bark will lift well - which may not be at just the time that deciduous trees are budded.

  57. Olives, like other evergreen trees, should be transplanted in the spring when there is heat enough to induce them to take hold at once in their new places, and not during the winter when dormant deciduous trees are best transplanted.

  58. We prefer rooted cuttings to sprouts, but even these are abandoned for seedling roots of the common deciduous fruits and of citrus fruits also.

  59. The orange and the olive work better that way than do the deciduous trees, although buds in old bark of the peach have done well.

  60. At the blooming time of deciduous trees less danger would threaten, because there is less difference between the temperature of the ground and the water which you were then applying from a running stream.

  61. Ordinary deciduous fruit trees can be successfully pruned from the time the leaves begin to turn yellow and fall, until the new foliage is appearing in the late winter or spring.

  62. You can prune French prunes and other deciduous trees at any time during the winter that is most convenient to you.

  63. For use of young trees, is there any difference in treatment of deciduous and citrus trees?

  64. Transplanting deciduous trees should be done earlier in the winter than evergreens.

  65. In spite of these facts, nearly all budding of deciduous trees is done in bark of the current year's growth.

  66. The trifoliata has been promoted as more likely to induce dormancy of the top growth during cold weather, because of its own deciduous habit.

  67. The Benicia Route is through deciduous fruit sections, of which Davis and Elmira are business centers and junctions respectively for lines through the west side of the Sacramento Valley and up the beautiful Capay Valley.

  68. The peglike permanent P4, of which I have not seen the deciduous precursor, receives wear at the same time that the molars are being worn.

  69. Zapus hudsonius occurs in low undergrowth usually of grasses or forbs or both, in open coniferous forests, deciduous hardwood groves, or in stands of tall shrubs and low trees, but most frequently in open, moist areas.

  70. The application form for forest trees includes seven evergreens and nineteen deciduous trees.

  71. This habit permits such trees to grow so late that there is much greater danger of severe injury from late fall or early winter than is the case with most other deciduous fruit trees.

  72. Different kinds of deciduous plants have or require rest periods of different lengths, just as some people require more sleep than do others.

  73. The deciduous trees gave way to the desert growths: the cholla, "the shower of gold," and the palo verde and the other acacias.

  74. It is famous for its splendid deciduous fruits, apples, pears, peaches; splendid both in appearance and flavour.

  75. Free-flowering, hardy, deciduous shrubs, the flowers being produced in profusion along the shoots in April, and varying in colour from white to deep crimson.

  76. Hardy deciduous shrubs, which will grow in any ordinary soil, and produce their flowers in April or May.

  77. A stove deciduous shrub which thrives best in a mixture of loam and peat.

  78. A very elegant and hardy deciduous shrub, which will grow in any soil, and may be increased by layers, or by cuttings planted in the shade under glass.

  79. Deciduous shrubs may be transplanted at any time during late autumn or winter when the ground is not too wet.

  80. This hardy deciduous shrub does well in common soil if a fair amount of moisture be given.

  81. Half-hardy, tall, deciduous greenhouse shrubs, delighting in a loamy soil mixed with peat.

  82. A greenhouse deciduous shrub which flowers in August.

  83. This hardy deciduous shrub bears in September deliciously scented pure white flowers on the side-shoots of the previous year's growth.

  84. This is a deciduous hardy shrub or tree which bears elegant racemes of white Chestnut-like flowers in July.

  85. The Dimorphantus Mandschuricus is one of the noblest of deciduous shrubs, the foliage being very large and much divided.

  86. This ornamental deciduous shrub is quite hardy, but requires a light, sandy loam or peat soil and a shady situation.

  87. A good soil for these deciduous shrubs is made by mixing a fair quantity of silver sand with good fibrous peat.

  88. This hardy deciduous shrub is very ornamental, and its foliage is scented like the myrtle.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deciduous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arboreal; brittle; bushy; capricious; changeable; corruptible; deciduous; declining; descending; down; downhill; downward; drooping; dying; ephemeral; evanescent; evergreen; fading; falling; fickle; fleeting; flitting; flying; foundering; fragile; frail; fugacious; fugitive; hardy; impermanent; impetuous; impulsive; inconstant; insubstantial; momentary; mortal; mutable; passing; perennial; perishable; piny; plummeting; plunging; sagging; scrubby; setting; sinking; softwood; submerging; subsiding; temporal; temporary; tottering; transient; transitive; transitory; treelike; tumbledown; unstable; volatile