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Example sentences for "nurseries"

Lexicographically close words:
nurse; nursed; nurseling; nursemaid; nursemaids; nursery; nurseryman; nurserymen; nurses; nursie
  1. Where nurseries are attached to factories, enabling the mother to suckle her infant in intervals of work, the period may doubtless be shortened.

  2. Seldom offered in nurseries and difficult to transplant unless frequently root-pruned or moved; collected plants do not thrive well; seedlings are raised with little difficulty.

  3. Hardy along the south shore of New England; prefers well-drained soil in open situations; free from disfiguring enemies; occasionally cultivated in nurseries but difficult to transplant.

  4. Rare in nurseries and seldom for sale by collectors.

  5. There are several European species more or less common in cultivation, indiscriminately known in nurseries as Tilia Europæa.

  6. The dwarf habit, graceful foliage, and showy fruit give it an especial value in artificial plantations; but it is seldom for sale in nurseries and only occasionally by collectors.

  7. The cut-leaved form is cultivated in nurseries for the sake of its exceedingly graceful and delicate foliage.

  8. Mostly propagated by seed, but sometimes successfully collected; for sale in the leading nurseries and usually obtainable in large quantities.

  9. Its very tall, slender habit makes it a useful tree in some positions, but it is not readily obtainable in nurseries and is seldom used.

  10. The type is sometimes offered in nurseries at a low price by the quantity.

  11. Not procurable in New England nurseries or from collectors; its usefulness in landscape gardening not definitely known.

  12. The nurseries were still unfurnished, and behind the screen which she and Claude-Edmond had made a year ago she found a heap of dusty pictures and a pot with dried relics of paste.

  13. Herein he was carrying out her own wishes against those of her friends of the Common, who were inclined to regard public schools as nurseries of vice and Cambridge as the only tolerable University.

  14. And here all these months she's been wearing herself to death getting the nurseries ready as if he'd been a royal prince, and she, who never had a needle in her hand, sewing all day at his little clothes.

  15. And the latitude which Armand had allowed to Horatia's fancies for redecoration and upholstery of the nurseries the Dowager had put down to his shrewdness, for which she had a considerable respect.

  16. Committee on Securing Initial Support until government shall take over the schools which have proved to be efficient nurseries of good citizenship on demand of the people.

  17. Here, after six years of labor, they built up a model farm, well stocked with choice breeds of cattle, planted with nurseries of fruit trees, and laid down to grain.

  18. These farms are the nurseries from which the State will soon obtain its officials and its teachers, both male and female.

  19. Promising varieties may now be had by obtaining scions from superior bearing seedling trees and from young named and grafted trees in the nurseries of commercial concerns.

  20. Most of our State Forests and Waters nurseries in their seedling beds, plant their seedlings, including chestnuts, make a mixture of sawdust and sand, about one of sawdust and two of sand, and then broadcast that right over their seeds.

  21. The establishment of nurseries where grafted nut trees of choice varieties may be obtained has been encouraged.

  22. One of these little pine nurseries is seen in Fig.

  23. The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies.

  24. Maybe I am wrong, but it sometimes seems to me that there is less laughter in the nurseries now than before, that the children's faces are growing more earnest.

  25. Most of the florists in New York and Brooklyn get their plants and flowers at wholesale from nurseries on the outskirts, purchasing such stock as they may require from time to time.

  26. The amount of capital required to start the florist's business is nothing like as much as it was before the large nurseries supplied the florists with what they wanted at wholesale rates.

  27. We have an orphanage, hospital, baths, stores, and fruit nurseries for the distribution of small trees.

  28. Prince was the fourth proprietor of the same name of the Prince nurseries at Flushing, Long Island, and he with his predecessors had assiduously cultivated European varieties of grapes hoping to acclimatize them to American conditions.

  29. Noted in the Hermann Grape Nurseries Catalog for 1906 as a new red variety; bunches medium; berries very large; fine aroma.

  30. The variety was introduced in 1906 by the Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company, Louisiana, Missouri.

  31. I believe that the same principle applies to the development of filbert nurseries as to any phase of life, that eternal vigilance is the price of safety.

  32. He had worked in the nurseries in Germany as a young man and had told me of his experiences.

  33. He asked me for a list of nurseries growing them.

  34. I feel as the other speakers do who have expressed themselves, that we have little to fear from the hazel blight; that if it does appear in the nurseries we can control it by cutting out the blighted portions.

  35. I feel that I cannot let this opportunity pass to correct an impression that might have gotten over from one remark of Mr. Patterson's about the filbert nurseries being the result of my efforts.

  36. So I sent to Germany and got five plants of twenty varieties, leaving to the nurseries from which I purchased them the selection of the varieties.

  37. He had always liked to go up to the floor on which the nurseries were, and think of all the little white-robed sleepers behind those doors as he passed them.

  38. They still occupied one of the large nurseries as their bedroom, and used the old schoolroom as a place where they could enjoy the privacy necessary for their own intimate pursuits.

  39. Some trees and shrubs one can only get from nurseries in pots.

  40. How is it that this fine native plant is almost invariably sold in nurseries as an American bramble?

  41. During the previous blooming season the best nurseries were visited and careful observations made of colouring, habit, and time of blooming.

  42. At the time of making my collection I was unable to visit the French nurseries where these plants are so admirably grown, and whence most of the best kinds have come.

  43. In ordering from the nurseries insist on straight, shapely, and young trees, say three years from the bud.

  44. Spirit of God moving upon the surface of the deeps, over every heart that sleeps in the nurseries of Christendom.

  45. By the middle of the seventeenth century the grammar schools had become nurseries of the faith, as well as very formal and disciplinary in character.

  46. Being regarded as nurseries of superstition, they were abandoned without regret.

  47. Of course, this is not intended to discourage the planting of new varieties offered by nurseries of known reputation for integrity, nor of such strains as the Crath Carpathian walnut importations, from which new varieties are emerging.

  48. Without doubt many of the large commercial general nurseries will take up the growing and selling of nut trees.

  49. It will be most unfortunate if the many nurseries that, in my opinion, will go into nut tree production should boost seedling trees just because they do not have or cannot produce the named varieties.

  50. This would give the cooperating nurseries a piece of business that could be depended upon (of a kind that would take comparatively little time as compared with that required for grafted trees), in return for their support.

  51. The membership circulars which contain the list of nut nurseries and a list of publications on nut culture may be had from the secretary by all who wish to distribute it.

  52. When nurseries that show honesty in their advertising write me for information I give them the best I have.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nurseries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.