Etym: [From Lady Impey, who attempted to naturalize the bird in England.
The pacos, and, perhaps, also the lamas, have been often transported into Spain, to endeavour to naturalize them.
It is of the utmost importance that there be developed in the Church of Christ such a militant temper as shall make it capable of carrying out the plans of Christ to naturalize Christianity in every land.
Attempts had been made in the time of Augustus to naturalize the vine in the north of Gaul; but the cold was too great.
Attempts had been made to naturalizesome of the varieties of the philanthropic and sentimental French and German bores in England, but without success.
It is the sole survivor of many poetic attempts to naturalize the Indian in literature, and will remain the classic Indian poem.
In order to domesticate or naturalize the former class in countries not extremely differing from that from which the species was brought, it will not be necessary to acclimatize, in the strict sense of the word.
Attempts to naturalize that well-known Australian grass-parrakeet the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) in England have so far proved abortive, and none of the species experimented with in Norfolk and Bedfordshire effected a settlement.
Attempts have also been made to naturalize continental insects in Britain, in places where the proper food-plants abound and the conditions seem generally favourable, but in no case do they seem to have succeeded.
We have a proof of this in the fact that so few, comparatively, of our perfectly hardy garden plants ever run wild; and even the most persevering attempts to naturalize them usually fail.
Botanists are well aware that garden plants naturalize and diffuse themselves with great facility in comparatively unreclaimed countries, but spread themselves slowly and with difficulty in districts highly cultivated.
With the wools and cottons of the East, or of Barbary, there are often brought into France the grains of exotic plants, some of which naturalize themselves.
Neither was it used with any reference to the African race imported into or born in this country; because Congress had no power to naturalize them, and therefore there was no necessity for using particular words to exclude them.
In like manner the attempt to naturalize ‘avant-courier’ in the shape of ‘vancurrier’ has failed.
Next, all former nobles or ennobled, deprived by the law of their status as Frenchmen and obliged to re-naturalize themselves according to the formalities.
The dense mossy cushions, plentifully sprinkled with pink buds and white flowers, are so beautiful, one cannot resist taking a few tuffets home to naturalize in the rock garden.
Once given a chance tonaturalize itself, no composite is slow in seizing it.
These common orchids, which are not at all difficult to naturalize in a well-drained, shady spot in the garden, should be lifted with a good ball of earth and plenty of leaf-mould immediately after flowering.
When portions of the stem or of the tuber are thrown away by the side of streams, they naturalize themselves easily.
As the nuts from cultivated trees naturalize the species very easily, we must have recourse to various indications to discern its ancient home.
If it is discovered there it will be hard to prove it wild, for the seeds, which soon lose their faculty of germinating, often spring up round the plantations and naturalize the species.
The seeds of sesame often sow themselves outside plantations, and more or less naturalize the species.
Mr. Speaker has referred to the late Emperor Napoleon, as having attempted to naturalize the manufacture of cotton in France.
British statutes in 1740, to show the intention of the old Government was to naturalize all persons who would go and reside in the Colonies.
Congress has no power, as I said before, to naturalize a citizen.
The State is free to naturalize foreigners or not, and under such restrictions as it judges proper; but, having naturalized them, it must treat them as standing on the same footing with natural-born citizens.
