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Example sentences for "transplanting"

Lexicographically close words:
transpires; transpiring; transplant; transplantation; transplanted; transplants; transpontine; transport; transportable; transportal
  1. A suitable prize can be given the one who succeeds in transplanting the greatest number of trees.

  2. In transplanting conifers, it is very important that the roots be not exposed to the sun.

  3. At each transplanting the soil should be made a little richer.

  4. The roots of the plants should also be trimmed back at each transplanting in order to increase the feeding roots.

  5. Attention to transplanting as needed and removal to the ground only when it is well warmed are the necessary requirements.

  6. The plants will need protection from the severe fall frosts, and this may be given by carefully lifting the plants and transplanting to a frame, where sash or cloth may be used to cover them in freezing weather.

  7. The young plants may be grown in a coldframe or in a well protected border, sowing the seed about the 15th of May, transplanting into rows in July.

  8. Sow in gentle heat in March, transplanting to border when the weather is settled.

  9. There is much difference of opinion as to the proper time for the transplanting of Evergreens, which means that there is more than one season in which they may be moved.

  10. Would there be anything gained by transplanting old olive trees 6 to 8 inches in diameter over nursery stock?

  11. The orange and lemon will do better in transplanting than the others.

  12. Take up the trees with a good ball of earth, transplanting in the spring when the ground has become well warmed, just about at the time when new growth begins to appear on the tree.

  13. Transplanting deciduous trees should be done earlier in the winter than evergreens.

  14. For Transplanting Trees, the autumn is the best time.

  15. Some limit the practice of transplanting to a period of thirty days.

  16. And yet--for it is impossible to resist entirely the pleasure of fruitless speculation--we may guess that there are some reasons why there should be a risk in transplanting so delicate a growth as the genius of Hawthorne.

  17. Nobody can tell, and perhaps, therefore, it is as well that nobody should guess, what would have been the effect of transplanting Shakespeare to modern Stratford, or of exiling him to the United States.

  18. The fact that they are not so used is due to the difficulty of transplanting them.

  19. Wrapping a piece of paper around the stem when transplanting young plants will help to save them from cutworms.

  20. With a transplanting trowel, make holes deep enough so that the plant will be a little deeper in the soil than before transplanting.

  21. The evening is considered best for transplanting if the weather is clear.

  22. This is especially important in transplanting evergreens.

  23. There is no more risk in transplanting this than the elm, and the limbs are not liable to be broken by the winds and snow.

  24. Many kinds of annuals and perennials, sown in March and the beginning of April, will be fit for transplanting about the end of May, and may either be planted in patches about borders, or in beds, as fancy shall direct.

  25. Our first move must be to locate a rocky ledge, a cave, or something of the sort, where the transplanting process can be carried out.

  26. Once we get those records and begin transplanting the Merucaans, the rest will be only a matter of time!

  27. The one and only chance of successfully transplanting the Folk must be to regions warm as these.

  28. Our one serious handicap is the lack of a pair of extra hands, in this work as in the making of the rose bed, for our transplanting has developed upon a wholesale plan.

  29. Our system of transplanting is this: we have any number of old burlap feed bags, which, having become frayed and past their usefulness, we bought at the village store for a song.

  30. August is a kittle time for transplanting border things," I hear you say.

  31. One of the most interesting features of this cottage and its surroundings is the further transplanting of Martin Cortright from his city haunts.

  32. Your last chronicle has followed me, and was read in a region so pervaded by ferns that your questions concerning their transplanting would have answered themselves if you could have only perched on the rock beside me.

  33. The time for transplanting is from the 1st to the 20th of June; taking advantage of a damp day, or setting them immediately after a rain.

  34. It is raised from seed, which should be sown where the plants are to remain, as they do not bear transplanting well.

  35. In favorable seasons, a crop may be obtained by sowing the seeds in May in the open ground, and transplanting the seedlings, when two or three inches high, in a warm and sheltered situation.

  36. Some, however, should be left at half that distance, to make up by transplanting any vacancies that may occur.

  37. In the autumn or spring following, they will be fit for transplanting in rows three feet asunder, and the plants set three feet apart.

  38. Instead of transplanting the roots, asparagus-beds are sometimes formed by sowing the seeds where the plants are to remain.

  39. When grown for competition or for exhibition, this process of transplanting is thrice and often four times repeated.

  40. The transplanting may be performed either in April or May.

  41. If the plants have been started in a hot-bed, they should be set out at the time of transplanting cabbages.

  42. The process of transplanting unquestionably lessens the liability of the plants to run to seed, and produces the largest and finest heads.

  43. Early leeks may be obtained by sowing the seeds in a hot-bed in February or March, and transplanting to the open ground in June or July.

  44. Half an ounce of seeds will be sufficient for fifty feet of drill; or, by transplanting when they spring up too thickly, will furnish seedlings for a hundred feet.

  45. It bears transplanting well; and may be set in rows one foot apart, and nine inches apart in the rows.

  46. The slips, or cuttings, are set in April, two-thirds of the length in the soil, and in rows as directed for transplanting seedlings.

  47. Some practise transplanting directly from the nursery-bed to where the plants are to remain; but the finest Lettuce is generally obtained by the treatment above described.

  48. Fashions change, and in the transplanting of other social ideas the black man has been shoved aside.

  49. Such trees have usually only a few long roots and so much of these are lost in transplanting that the large trunk cannot be nourished by the remainder.

  50. No fair planting corn in the kitchen and transplanting it the way I'm doing at home," decreed Roger, enlarging his stipulations concerning the Club offer.

  51. In no way is it visionary or impossible that by the proper transplanting of young scallops from the waters on the south side of the Cape, these "seeders" might furnish other generations of scallops, and revive an extinct industry.

  52. The oysters growing on it are reported to be large, but not of extraordinary size, scalloped and roundish, differing in no respect from aged oysters grown after transplanting to another part of the bay.

  53. There is but one way now known of artificial propagation for the scallop industry, and that is by transplanting in the fall the abundant set from the exposed places to the deeper water before the seed is killed by the winter.

  54. By this method the old grants are still worked, though greatly declined in value, as oysters can no longer be sold to market direct, and the process of transplanting entails considerable expense.

  55. Transplanting in cloudy weather and toward evening is better than in sunny weather and in the morning.

  56. Tansy is easily propagated by division of the clumps or by seed sown in a hotbed for the transplanting of seedlings.

  57. Since the weather is prone to be coy, if not fickle, the manual part of transplanting should always be properly done.

  58. Illustration: Transplanting Board and Dibble] The list of home confections may be very pleasingly extended by candying the aromatic roots of lovage, and thus raising up a rival to the candied ginger said to be imported from the Orient.

  59. But I believe that many of the failures in transplanting result from the improper use of this tool.

  60. Seed may be sown during March in drills 18 inches apart where the plants are to remain or in a seedbed for transplanting 18 inches asunder in May.

  61. No directions different from those relating to summer savory are necessary, except that seed of winter savory should be sown where the plants are to remain, because the seedlings do not stand transplanting very well.

  62. To transplant the beliefs and the institutions of a people to new regions in the hope of transplanting thither their virtues and their civilization as well is the vainest of follies.

  63. It was thus a genuine migration, and resulted in a full transplanting of white stock to new soil.

  64. The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.

  65. One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

  66. It can then be cropped with clover and cotton, but requires much labour in the way of weeding, transplanting to fill up blanks, and attention to irrigation.

  67. After the transplanting no irrigation is required.

  68. The ordinary tillage having been carried out, the cultivator begins by transplanting seedling tomatoes about the beginning of September.

  69. In the culture it will be found that the growth is excellent for four years, when transplanting becomes necessary and should be resorted to.

  70. His literary activity was mainly directed to the transplanting of the writings of Greek fathers to Latin soil.

  71. The germs of this sect may have come from the transplanting of Paulicians to Thrace by the emperor Tzimisces.

  72. Brison(5) remarked that bench grafting is not used in the propagation of pecans in Texas on account of transplanting difficulties.

  73. It was concluded that repeated transplanting had been fatal, and that in the future cuttings would be rooted in plant bands or pots and transplanted only once.

  74. The agricultural college at Fukuoka was not in session the day of our visit, it being a holiday usually following the close of the last transplanting season.

  75. As we passed on to other fields we found a mother and daughter transplanting sweet potatoes on carefully fitted ridges of nearly air-dry soil in a little field, the remnant of a table on a deeply eroded hillside, Fig.

  76. Besides fertilizing, transplanting and weeding the rice crop there is the enormous task of irrigation to be maintained until the rice is nearly matured.

  77. The rainy season had not begun and in many fields there was planting and transplanting where water was used in separate hills, sometimes brought in pails from a nearby stream, and in other cases on carts provided with tanks.

  78. The work of transplanting may be done by groups of families changing work, a considerable number of them laboring together after the manner seen in Fig.

  79. Later, just before the time for transplanting rice, we returned to the same district to observe the manner of applying this compost to the field, and Fig.


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