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Example sentences for "single stem"

  • Keep to a single stem to a height of about 8 feet, and then allow it to branch.

  • These should be kept to a single stem until they have attained a height of 6 to 8 feet, after which they may be allowed to branch, or be still kept to a single stem, as may be desired.

  • Foxtail Cactus; Desert Pincushion (Coryphantha deserti) How to identify and how it grows The Foxtail Cactus grows as a single stem or in clumps.

  • The plant grows nearly always on a single stem, rarely two or more in a clump, from one to seven feet tall and about eighteen inches in diameter, with twenty to twenty-four ridges encircling trunk and stems.

  • The effect of a plant kept to a single stem, as shown in the plate, is always much superior to that of a branched one.

  • I, however, have never tried to train young plants of it with a single stem; it might be worth the trial.

  • By pruning it to a single stem, it may be made to assume a very effective palm-like character.

  • It is very injurious to the currant bushes in many parts of the country, and constitutes a serious obstacle to growing the plants to a single stem, tree fashion.

  • A young tree, well furnished with laterals, is always more stocky, and every way better, though not so tall as that which has been drawn up to a single stem.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hereunto affixed; industrial waste; mile further; not able; single block; single city; single fact; single family; single figure; single file; single flower; single game; single generation; single hair; single hour; single idea; single instance; single man; single person; single series; single sheet; single vote; single woman; single word; small hand; win her