This fact is utilized in pruning the coffee tree, the uprights being cut back, the laterals then becoming more productive.
The laterals are produced only while the joint of the upright, to which they are attached, is young; and if they are broken off at that point, the upright has no power to reproduce them.
The laterals may send out other laterals, known as secondary laterals; but no lateral can ever produce an upright.
The upright can produce new uprights also; but if an upright is cut off, the laterals at that position tend to thicken up.
This is very desirable, as the laterals produce the flowers, which seldom appear on the uprights.
The laterals are produced in pairs and are opposite, the pairs being borne in whorls around the stem.
One tracing showed the entire irrigation scheme from the dam on the Pinas to the tips of the laterals branching out in a gridiron over the land.
In addition, the flood water of Perro Creek can be utilized; I've worked this out, as well as the entire system of laterals for the land.
The laterals should enter the branches and mains near the top, so that the water will be drawn out rapidly.
The laterals need not be larger than 3 inches in diameter when laid on a good bottom.
If it does not, the main, branches, and laterals should have a fall of 3 inches, or more, to the 100 feet.
It usually is best that the main take the center line of the low land, laterals being used to bring the water to the main from both sides, but there is less duplication of work when the main can be at one side of the wet land.
The distance between these laterals depends upon their depth and the nature of the land.
Every 100 feet along the line of the proposed drain and laterals similar stakes should be driven.
All that the operator requires to attend to is the amputation of the laterals until this adventitious fellow has gained a supremacy.
A far simpler method than that, namely, by fore-shortening all the laterals of the upper tier but the one selected for a leader.
Treatment, of laterals which come of themselves is another matter.
Do not clip the ends of shoots unless laterals are desired.
The chief point in cutting back is to know where you wish the next laterals to come on the shortened shoot, and if you do not wish more laterals at once; do not cut back at all.
Apple trees are cut back during their early life to cause branching and to secure short distances between the larger laterals on the main branches.
Even as he spoke, the conflicting winds came to rest; the levels filled; the laterals died out in long easy swells; the airways were smoothed before us.
She comes up nobly, but the laterals buffet her left and right like the pinions of angry angels.
We were dragged hither and yon by warm or frozen suctions, belched up on the tops of wulli-was, spun down by vortices and clubbed aside by laterals under a dizzying rush of stars in the company of a drunken moon.
The support of the body therefore devolves alternately upon a single foot and upon two feet; the single foot being alternately a hind foot and a fore foot, and the two feet being alternately laterals and diagonals.
The left fore is now brought down, and is followed by the lifting of the right fore; when the left laterals assume the duty of support.
These in turn feathered out into the tiny laterals across the meadow.
Its cardinal teeth are large, but its laterals are very small.
The laterals also show three cusps, while the cuspid has two very distinct.
It appears as far front as the centrals and is often present on the lingual face of the laterals of man.
As soon as the first swelling is completed, and the stoning process commences, allow a little more liberty to the laterals to induce a corresponding increase of root action.
All laterals to be stopped in due time, and all useless buds and branches to be removed; the leading shoots to be tied in regularly, and the bunches to be thinned.
Continue to remove the stray laterals that begin to shade the larger leaves; to be done a little at a time, as disbudding on an extensive scale is prejudicial to fruit trees.
As soon as the principal shoots have reached the side of the frame, never allow any of the laterals to grow more than two joints before being stopped.
Keep thinning the berries and stopping the laterals as they advance, which, with syringing and giving air, is the principal work to be done.
Stop laterals in the late houses, and expose the foliage to light, to make it as healthy and vigorous as possible.
Stop the laterals on the later Vines, thin and tie up the bunches, and maintain a steady, moist temperature, with plenty of air, but do not syringe the bunches.
When they have made two joints to be stopped, to cause them to produce laterals and bearing branches.
When tying up in the spring, the canes should be cut back to four or five feet and the laterals to not more than eighteen inches.
If the old-fashioned arbor is used, the best way is to run the main trunk up over it and cut the laterals back each year to two or three eyes.
The vines, being young and vigorous, pushed out the laterals vigorously, each of them making a fair-sized cane.
Leave the laterals on the canes intended for next years' fruiting to grow unchecked, tying them neatly with bass, or pawpaw bark, or with rye straw.
Allow all the laterals to grow, as it will make the wood stronger and more stocky.
In the fall, when I came to prune them, the main cane was not long enough, and I merely shortened in the laterals to from four to six buds each.
This has the tendency to force the laterals into stronger growth, each forming a medium-sized cane.
On these we intend to grow our fruit the coming season, as the buds on these laterals will generally produce more and finer fruit than the buds on the strong canes.
We now go over all the shoots coming from the arms or laterals tied to the trellis, and also pinch them beyond the last bunch.
They may even be summer-layered in July, laying down the young cane, and covering the main stem about an inch deep with mellow soil, leaving the ends of the laterals out of the ground.
By the time the grapes have bloomed, the laterals will have pushed from the axils of the leaves on the bearing shoots.
The canes from the spurs, which we left unchecked, and which we design to bear fruit the next season, may now also be stopped or pinched, when they are about three feet long, to start their laterals into stronger growth.
But the majority of the branches will be able to sustain their fruit without tying, and the young growth which may yet start from the laterals may be left unchecked, as it will serve to shade the fruit when ripening.
In a short time, the laterals on the fruit-bearing branches which have been pinched will throw out suckers again.
These laterals are now pruned precisely as the last season, each being cut back to from four to six eyes, and the old cane, which has borne fruit, is cut away altogether.
The Concord and Herbemont, again, will bear best on the laterals of last season's growth, and should be trained accordingly.
It is a highly finished performance, and of so exalted a character that we should think that Luca, when he painted the laterals to it, was asleep, so inferior are they in composition and expression.
When the vine is well established, this new cane is fruited throughout its entire length, the laterals being pinched as described under the spur method.
At the end of the season, the terminal is shortened at least one-half, and the laterals are pinched back to a bud as close as possible to the main stem.
The selection of the laterals the second year, therefore, is a matter of much importance since spurs are to be developed from them.
After topping, the cane ceases to grow in length and laterals start at most of the joints.
It is less exposed to the action of the wind, and the laterals supply the buds needed for forming the vine at the winter pruning.
Season late, the laterals producing a second and sometimes even a third crop.
The objections to heading-back in the summer are that it often unduly weakens the vines, that it may induce a growth of laterals which thicken the vines too much, and that it delays the maturing of the wood.
From the beginning to the finish of the season, in this method of pruning, much pinching of laterals is required.
A considerable number of laterals spring up on each side of the main vine, and these must be thinned as they develop to stand at the distance apart of the wires to which they are fastened.
On my word, sir, the company has no chance to complete those lateralsbefore the great June freshets.
The main ditch is to carry off the bulk of water in case of freshets; while the lateralsdrain the individual farms.
Rod had spent the morning up the laterals and had come home dripping.
That will check any danger of the water backing up into the narrow laterals and overflowing them.
Then he and Ned gave up work on the laterals and set the men to hacking away at the regular excavation.
Mr. Crosby and I desire to go over your laterals and get an idea of your work thus far.
While the boys took the commodore up and down the laterals that he might see their progress since his last visit, Mrs. McCloskey trailed her soft old black silk skirts to the martin-box door and begged for a glimpse of the baby.
But it is getting so near the time set for the completion of our upper lateral cut that we are obliged to keep our levee shift at work on the upper laterals and take our chances on the sand staying where we pile it.
Our levee is growing like magic, and Hallowell is putting in splendid time on the lower lateralswith the big dredge.
The roots having been carefully examined, and, as before mentioned, the laterals pruned to six or eight inches, are spread out horizontally, and gently covered with earth.
The second season the trees should all be headed-in, and the laterals spurred-in early in the spring, or in mild weather during the winter, if the scions are wanted.
If these younger trees be not already furnished with laterals and elements for the formation of low heads, by the judicious treatment of the nurserymen who produced them, the orchardist can at least bend them to his will.
We were dragged hither and yon by warm or frozen suctions, belched up on the tops of wulii-was, spun down by vortices and clubbed aside by laterals under a dizzying rush of stars in the company of a drunken moon.
When the fall is sufficient, it should be placed at such depth as will allow the laterals and sub-mains which discharge into it to enter at its top, and discharge above the level of the water which flows through it.
The drain, C, will receive the laterals and sub-mains from the rising ground to the east of it, and from both sides of the minor valley which extends in that direction.
The swamp is to be drained by itself, by means of two series of laterals discharging into the main lines F and G, which discharge at the outlet, by the side of the main drain from the silt-basin.
At one point, just above the middle of the east side of the field, the laterals are placed at a general distance of 20 feet, because, as will be seen by reference to Fig.
This drain will receive laterals from the hill bordering the southeasterly side of the swamp, and, higher up, from both sides of the valley in which it runs.
The other laterals and the whole of the main line, having been cut to a depth of 3 feet, take a finishing spade, (Fig.
Those laterals west of the main line, which are crossed by the brook, had better not be opened at present,—not until the water of the spring is admitted to and removed by the drain.
Where the valley is a flat one, with rising ground at each side, there should be a sub-main, to receive the laterals from each hill side.
When the Pitt line has swung round after our left end, the quarter leaps to position and laterals the ball to Old Kentucky.
The ordinary size for laterals is four-inch diameter, while the mains into which theselaterals discharge are generally of six-inch diameter.
The laterals and the different fixtures are taken off from this main supply pipe as it rises through the house, and the pipe is capped at the top.
The principal pruning should be performed in summer, the young shoots if crowded being thinned out, and the superabundant laterals shortened by breaking them half through.
Cordons" are trees trained to a single shoot, thelaterals of which are kept spurred.
Cut out old wood; thin out old shoots, and out back the young base shoots and laterals to four or six eyes.
Prune the laterals lightly, and leave the best of the base shoots.
Shorten thelaterals on old wood to three or four eyes.
The strong ripe shoots from the base should be cut back to about twelve inches, and the laterals on the old wood cut back to about four to six eyes.
Grow as bushes or pillars five to six feet high, cutting out weak wood, leaving all the laterals on which the flowers are borne, about eight inches to one foot.
The flowers are borne on the laterals of last year's long shoots, which may be left six to ten feet long.
It must be remembered that Ramblers, Noisettes, and other climbing roses bear their flowers on the laterals of the long shoots of the former year.
The other type, such as L'Ideal and William Allen Richardson, may be pruned fairly close, by cutting back the laterals to a few eyes.
The Penzance Briars make enormous base shoots, which may be shortened to ten feet or less according to one's requirements, and some of the strong laterals of last year shortened back.
But I have pointed out in Chapter IV that the Banksias bear their flowers on the sub-laterals of the third year.
The flowers, like those of the Banksia roses, being borne on the small twigs growing from the laterals of the second year, any pruning which destroys these destroys all chance of blossom.
The laterals are produced within about eighteen inches of the ground, and sometimes assume a vigorous growth, and attain as great a height as the main stem.
In addition to this, all laterals that have no flowers, and, after the fifth topping, all laterals whatsoever, are nipped off.
The custom of cutting or nipping off the leading shoot of the running varieties is now practised to some extent, with the impression that it both facilitates the formation of fruitful laterals and the early maturing of the fruit.
Cordons are formed by removing the lateralsas fast as they appear, and when the fruit has set, or the requisite height is attained, the top is also pinched out.
After this there must be no more stopping, but occasionally thelaterals must be suppressed to prevent crowding.
As growth develops commence disbudding promptly, regularly remove all laterals and tendrils, and tie each cordon to its supporting rod with raffia as often as may be necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laterals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
