The Roman de Renart is a vast collection of small stories of a special class, and the Fabliaux are almost a vaster collection (if you do not exclude the "waterings out" of Renart) of kinds more general.
In very hot weather don't grudge a few wateringsto your polyanthuses and primroses.
There is a "first principle" of which some gardeners are very fond, but in which I do not believe, that if you begin to water you must go on, and that too few waterings do harm.
In using it in this latter way, however, if repeated waterings be necessary, the liquor should be reduced in strength by the addition of a third or a fourth part water.
Abundance of syringing and good waterings with liquid manure may now be given them.
Be sure that the ball is thoroughly moist before shifting; for if perfectly dry when that operation is performed the waterings afterwards given will pass freely through the fresh soil without penetrating the old ball.
Any tendency to premature decay in the leaves of those from which the fruit has been all gathered to be arrested by liberal waterings at the roots and by syringings.
When these waterings are finished, the vines or stems of the plants are to be carefully laid down again in their former positions.
Waterings that merely wet the surface and saturate the crevices or lower parts of the bed are of no use.
After the plants are fairly above ground, light waterings at evening may be given, but must be avoided if possible.
The waterings ought to be copious and frequent, especially at the time of the formation of the heads, when I apply about 10 to 15 litres of water to each head every other day.
Give copious waterings in the evenings until they begin to grow.
Attend to all plants in pots, and give them gentle waterings as they stand in need; but never during the time the soil is frozen about their roots.
Let them be taken out of their pots, some of their weakest shoots or tubers taken off, and the strong ones repotted: give gentle waterings until they grow freely, then give an abundance.
Those that are done flowering in pots, can be set aside, and the usual waterings gradually withdrawn.
These while in bloom should be carefully shaded from the sun by hoops and thin canvass, or an erect temporary awning; and as soon as they are done flowering, they must be fully exposed, and the waterings given up.
Give immediately a moderate watering, with a rose watering pot, and in dry weather give light waterings every evening.
Let the waterings now be done in the mornings, as often and in such quantities as will supply their respective wants, examining the plants every day.
They will do in a dark part of the house, where other plants would not grow, studying to have the most tender kinds in the warmest part, and giving gentle waterings every three or four weeks.
Attend to thinning of those that are too thick, giving gentle waterings to such as are weak in dry weather.
Give very gentle waterings from a pot with a rose mouth, for a few weeks, until they have begun to grow, protecting them entirely from the sun, till that period, then take the opportunity of a cloudy day to expose them.
As the season advances and vegetation increases, the waterings will require to be more copious and more frequent.
Any time in this or beginning of next month will answer to make edgings of these; and if dry weather occurs before they begin to grow after planting, they must have frequent waterings until they have taken fresh root.
The syringings should never be done till after the waterings at the roots, and they should never be seldomer than every alternate evening.
In order to make the former flower well, if the weather is dry, give them frequent waterings at the root, and tie them up neatly to their rods.
During spring, the young crops must be protected from frost, and in summer from drought by copious manure-waterings and frequent stirring of the ground between the plants.
While engaged in the production of those excellent pease which bear his name, he proved this theory by warding off mildew by copious waterings of the roots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
