These feats Ascanius to his people showed, When girdling Alba Longa; there with joy The ancient Latins in the pastime rode, Wherein the princely Dardan, as a boy, Was wont his Trojan comrades to employ.
Seven hills her single rampart shall embrace, Seven citadels her girdling wall contain, Thrice blest, beyond all cities, in a race Of heroes, destined to adorn her reign.
Along the girdling wall Pale boys and matrons stand: the last hour cries for all.
Larger trees, as the sweet locust, that are troublesome on account of sprouting out from the roots, when cut down, are effectually killed by girdling two feet from the ground, and allowing to stand one year.
To prevent rabbits and mice from girdling fruit-trees in winter, is very important to fruit-growers.
The girdling of trees was easy and speedy, but it was discountenanced as dangerous and hideous, and was not frequently practised.
The most conspicuous symptoms of the disease are the dying branches or crowns ("flags") above the girdling cankers, and the cankers themselves.
As the fungus continues to attack and kill the cambium, the sunken cankers enlarge, eventually girdling and killing the branch or stem above the cankered area.
Small irregular patches of bark are removed, eventually girdling the seedling and causing its death.
The glory swims Girdling the glory-giver, swallowed straight By night's abysmal gloom, unglorified Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?
Each female beetle is capable of girdlingseveral twigs.
A good method of attaching labels, and one that does away with the risk of girdling the graft or tree, is to fasten the label to a staple driven into the tree.
A similar circulation, quite independent of the ordinary tidal movement, takes place also in the earth-girdling ocean.
Prematureness, unaccompanied by other symptoms of yellows, may be due to borers, drought, neglect, girdling or similar causes.
In from two to four weeks, depending on the growth of the stock, the raffia should be cut to prevent its girdling the tree.
It chips out bark right down to the wood, girdling large limbs and killing whole sections of a tree.
I am trying several modifications of a principle of making the cuttings at some time after girdling the stem.
The girdling arm lifted higher and drew her toward him, drew her slowly and caressingly.
He offered to draw her toward him again, but it was no more than a tentative muscular movement of the girdling arm, for he feared that he might be greedy.
For, girdling the dusky horizon, could he not see the domes and campaniles of Venice, perhaps the very lamps in his own palace windows, from whose festal saloons he had just been decoyed; just distant enough to be beyond the reach of help?
Its mission in foreign lands has been befittingly inaugurated in the course of the opening phase of this world-girdling Crusade.
It is beautifully situated on a spur of the mountain, with an amphitheatre of mountain-peaks girdling it in except on one side, where it looks down on the lesser hills and rivers we came up from.
As she did so she heard a rattle of distant shots coming from a point to her right beyond the girdling trees of the garden.
I remarked: "They did not know how to use an axe, but understood girdling in a different way.
Canada can testify to the fact of their having other ways of girdling besides with the axe, and unless there is a speedy stop put to it, there will not be a green tree left.
