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Example sentences for "dwarfing"

Lexicographically close words:
dvornik; dwar; dwarf; dwarfed; dwarfer; dwarfish; dwarfness; dwarfs; dwel; dwell
  1. Soon she was conscious of something choking, crushing, dwarfing in this artificial system.

  2. Would it not be dwarfing and cramping her, all her life probably, to give way to her now.

  3. The common stock for dwarfing is the Paradise apple, a dwarf variety of the common apple species (Pyrus Malus).

  4. In fact, it is just this difference in size and rate of growth which constitutes the value of the quince root for dwarfing the pear.

  5. The trifoliate and Otaheite stocks are used for dwarfing or for small growing sorts, as many of the Japanese varieties.

  6. This is, somewhat roughly stated, the whole theory of dwarfing fruit trees by grafting them on slow-growing stocks.

  7. The St. Julien plum probably furnishes a better dwarfing stock for peaches, but it is more expensive and harder to work.

  8. These trees were picked out at random from various sources and very few of them were propagated on dwarfing stocks.

  9. All fruit trees to be grown in pots should be propagated on the dwarfest of dwarfing stocks.

  10. The Americana plum, now somewhat largely grown for stocks in the States of the upper Mississippi valley, furnishes a good dwarfing stock for the peach.

  11. Still this dwarfing effect is always well marked, this result being shown by the overgrowing of the cion.

  12. The selection of stocks for dwarfing purposes is necessarily a complicated matter.

  13. The Doucin is perhaps better for the free-growing bush form trees, especially where excessive dwarfing is not needed.

  14. It has already been explained that the dwarfing of the tree depends in a certain way on its well-regulated starvation.

  15. The mind and character show the dwarfing influence by failure to develop those qualities which especially distinguish a noble manhood.

  16. Some graft on the Morello for the purpose of dwarfing the tree, and rendering it more prolific; but the most effectual dwarfing stock is the mahaleb, which, however, will not succeed in the generality of soils in Britain.

  17. It came into use and in Europe continues to serve almost the sole purpose of dwarfing varieties worked upon it.

  18. In fact, it seems not to have been mentioned as a stock in England until 1824 when Loudon in the Encyclopedia of Gardening speaks of it as "the most effectual dwarfing stock.

  19. There is no question but that the Mahaleb is a dwarfing stock.

  20. They show, too, that at first and for a long time its only use was as a dwarfing stock.

  21. It has a somewhat dwarfing influence on cions and hastens their fruiting age.

  22. Probably most of these would dwarf standard varieties more or less but in no case is it to be supposed that they would have the dwarfing effect of Mahaleb.

  23. From the known effects of dwarfing on other fruit trees this would be expected.

  24. Not by dwarfing but by developing themselves do men glorify their Creator.

  25. It is not the dwarfing of the life; it is its development into usefulness.

  26. The incisors being made up of these lobes or denticles, and dwarfing of the middle one taking place, the two lateral ones fall together.

  27. The chief peculiarity is a general dwarfing of the tooth, which is both too short and too narrow, and, from its sides slanting together, presents a tendency to become pointed.

  28. If you do it in the springtime, and if you keep on debudding along in June and July, you are dwarfing your trees.

  29. Just as the side branch starts I rub that bud off and I can't see that I am dwarfing it any.

  30. Preliminary results from this experiment indicate that early pruning of young Chinese chestnut trees causes severe dwarfing and consequent delay in the formation of catkins and the bearing of nuts.

  31. In other cases, the rootstock may cause a dwarfing habit in the future tree, with the resulting top being a scant producer of nuts.

  32. Our preliminary conclusion is that early pruning in this species causes severe dwarfing and delay in the fruiting of Chinese chestnuts.

  33. It has long been accepted by most horticulturists that any kind of pruning of fruit trees tends to be a dwarfing process.

  34. Whatever the subjects, it is a dwarfing process, whether the definitions are memorized at home or at school, silently, by oral repetition, or by singing them.

  35. There is a great deal of well-intentioned dwarfing of childhood.

  36. He attacked the doctrine of predestination, as taught in his time, a most soul-dwarfing doctrine, calculated to rob humanity of motives to stimulate it to greater and nobler efforts to achieve for God.

  37. Here is a plant (whose chief weakness already lies in a certain over-stiffness) made stiffer and more shapeless still by dwarfing and by cramming with too many petals.

  38. One of the annuals that I think is entirely spoilt by dwarfing is Love-in-a-Mist, a plant I hold in high admiration.

  39. There can be no excuse whatever for dwarfing this, as has lately been done.

  40. Yes; cutting back the roots in the winter and cutting back the new growth in the summer will have a dwarfing effect.

  41. If you mean that these trees are to be permanently kept at ten feet high, you should have planted trees worked on dwarfing stocks.

  42. The best way to get a dwarfed garden tree is to use a dwarfing root.

  43. In growing dwarf apples the Paradise stock is used, while the quince is used for dwarfing the pear, and many varieties of pears will accept the quince root which the apple rejects.

  44. The objection urged against it has been a claimed dwarfing of the tree worked upon it.

  45. A few poplars and willows occur on moist places, gradually dwarfing like the conifers.

  46. Dwarfing consists in so controlling the growth of plants as to reduce the natural size of any of our fruit trees, and bring them within comparatively narrow bounds.

  47. He also speaks of the Paradise, which is probably the same we now use as a dwarfing stock.

  48. There is a more vigorous stock which has been used for the same purpose, but it possesses much less dwarfing power.

  49. In this art of dwarfing even the large forest trees by mutilations of the roots and by other means, this curious people excel all others, as has frequently been stated.

  50. There are other means of producing the desired effects of dwarfing and early fruiting, which should be mentioned.

  51. Dwarfing stocks are contrasted with free stocks, or those which would have attained the full size of the species, and which, when grafted, produce large trees.

  52. And a simple modification of this method of dwarfing may be made with some varieties of fruit, by training a single stem horizontally within a foot of the ground, as a border or edging between the path-ways and the cultivated ground.

  53. The objects of dwarfing are to enable us to plant a large number of specimen trees, or of varieties upon a small piece of ground, or to have small trees beside the alleys of our gardens.

  54. These are often mis-called standards, when contrasted with those that have been worked on the quince, or other dwarfing stock.

  55. The vertical and oblique cordons represented and recommended by Du Breuil are very attractive, and admirable methods of training and dwarfing fruit trees, and of crowding a great many into a small space.

  56. For instance, I would have the famous and wonderful pictures now foiling and dwarfing one another in our vulgar galleries, distributed over the Western world.

  57. We shall thereby protect ourselves from the encroaching commercial machine, its dwarfing ethics, mean postulates, and accurst conventions, and we shall rear within the walls all the beautiful that the outside world says does not exist.

  58. The wonder of dwarfing is wrought, as is now well known, by cramping the roots in the pot and by extremely skilful pruning, manuring and watering.

  59. In various parts of the country I came upon smallholders who had reached a high degree of proficiency in the fine art of dwarfing trees.

  60. Is the dwarfing and narrowing creed[38] of Islam to be replaced or in any way to be modified by Christianity?

  61. These Kurdistan mountains, a prolongation of the Taurus chain, stern in their character, and dwarfing all the minor ranges, contrast grandly with the luxuriant plains of Sulduz and Urmi.

  62. The ultimate effect is dwarfing to administration and fatal to maximum composite efficiency.

  63. When the chief clerk does business in the name of some one else the effect is dwarfing to all concerned.

  64. Henry Moon drew attention to a change in the first molars; these are reduced in size and dome-shaped through dwarfing of the central tubercle of each cusp.

  65. I watched the gradual dwarfing of the pines as I ascended, and the corresponding dwarfing of nearly all the rest of the vegetation.

  66. Dwarfing may also be brought about by repeated maiming, nipping off the buds, pruning, etc.

  67. Dwarfing is often brought about by grafting on a slow-growing stock, and this method is employed in practice, as are also heading in, pruning of roots, and confinement in pots.


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