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Example sentences for "horticulture"

Lexicographically close words:
horssemen; horsses; horsy; hortatory; horticultural; horticulturist; horticulturists; hortis; horto; hortos
  1. Horticulture has been reduced to a science by disseminating knowledge and a hearty cooperation of fruit growers to extend the interests of the State in every way possible.

  2. In other regions one is quite dependent upon the other, but in California horticulture laughs at geographical boundaries.

  3. Horticulture and geographical situations have nothing in common.

  4. It was while en route to the Hawaiian islands that Mr. Dumas made a trip through the fruit districts of California and this undoubtedly influenced him to take up horticulture on coming to Washington.

  5. He is thoroughly familiar with progressive methods of horticulture and his orchards indicate the most thorough and scientific care.

  6. Hericart de Thury, president of the Society of Horticulture of France.

  7. His was a commanding figure in the horticulture of New York.

  8. His chief contributions to horticulture were made through the Mount Hope Nurseries, the influence of which is briefly set forth in the sketch of the life of Patrick Barry.

  9. Annal of Horticulture and yearbook of information on practical gardening.

  10. But it was as a pomologist and especially as a grower of grapes and pears that he established a permanent place for himself in the horticulture of the country.

  11. Eventually he became possessed of a considerable amount of land the increasing value of which made him a very wealthy man, and he took pleasure in being a patron of horticulture as well as a worker in its several fields.

  12. Wilder contributed to all fields of American horticulture as an ardent amateur grower and as a most generous patron.

  13. The American Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Horticulture and Rural Affairs.

  14. General Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, who followed the vocation of a soldier, statesman, and author, chose as his avocation horticulture and in several of its fields became eminent.

  15. An Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Gardener's Chronicle.

  16. Continued as Tilton's Journal of Horticulture and Floral Magazine.

  17. In some books on horticulture a great deal is said as to the soil in which Cucumber seed should be sown.

  18. Cleanliness in horticulture is valuable for its own sake, and for the orderly routine it necessitates on the part of the cultivator.

  19. Half-hardy perennial== One of the most remarkable achievements in modern horticulture is the splendid development of single and double Tuberous-rooted Begonias from the plant as first introduced from the Andes.

  20. Horticulture and vegetable gardening had developed enormously in the neighborhood of Provins.

  21. He was President of the Horticultural Society, and at one time Professor of Horticulture in Harvard University.

  22. As an expert in horticulture Parkman achieved celebrity.

  23. Such types are designated [608] in horticulture as varieties, though obviously they are of quite another nature than the varieties reproduced by seed.

  24. Varieties have often been observed to appear at once and quite unexpectedly in horticulture and agriculture, and a survey of these historical facts will be the subject of one of my lectures.

  25. In horticulture this tendency is widely and vexatiously known, since the repetition of an old variety does not bring any advantage to the breeder.

  26. A long list could easily be made, to show that during the whole history of horticulture double varieties have arisen from time to time.

  27. First, the term variety is applied in horticulture and agriculture to things so widely divergent as to convey no clear idea at all.

  28. Mutations are occurring from time to time in the wild state as well as in horticulture and agriculture.

  29. Experience and methods in horticulture differ from those in agriculture in many points.

  30. These branches have often been used as cuttings and yield little erect and richly flowering shrubs, which are known in [437] horticulture under the varietal name of Hedera Helix arborea.

  31. In horticulture and agriculture the fact that new varieties arise from time to time is beyond all doubt, and it is not this question with which we are now concerned.

  32. The oak-leaved beech has been found in a forest of Lippe-Detmold in Germany and near Versailles, [596] whence it was introduced into horticulture by Carriere.

  33. Despairing of horticulture indoors as out, I sometimes thought of orchids.

  34. Rollisson, of Tooting, a firm that vanished years ago, but will live in the annals of horticulture as the earliest of the great importers.

  35. They may be interested in some of the following subjects: Horticulture and Gardening.

  36. It is the only book accessible to American horticulture which gives the reasons, discouragements, possibilities and limitations of Cross-Breeding.

  37. This was particularly true of the Weschcke butternut and these scions looked so dry that I was tempted to throw them all away, but instead I gave them to two young horticulture students to practice with.

  38. Shoemaker, head of the Department of Horticulture in whose building we have had satisfactory meeting place, display room, use of lantern and operator, and the esthetic satisfaction of looking at beautiful flowers harmoniously arranged.

  39. Starting late in the spring it avoids the late frosts so damaging to horticulture in the south.

  40. It is a real privilege to have you in our Horticulture building.

  41. We sometimes see persons making themselves ridiculous by a pretended display of knowledge on matters of horticulture and botany, giving or pretending to give the botanical name of every plant one may happen to mention.

  42. Those who study works on horticulture by different writers, will discover many opposing views in respect to the modes of caring for, and the treatment of plants.

  43. WAUGH, professor of horticulture and landscape gardening in the Massachusetts agricultural college, formerly of the university of Vermont.

  44. Agriculture, horticulture and vitaculture are, therefore, no longer dependent on chance but science, as the National Irrigation Congress expresses it.

  45. Were proof lacking of these early plantations, it might be assumed that people so fond of horticulture as the French would not long be unmindful of the value to themselves and their posterity of plantations of fruit trees.

  46. The Journal of Horticulture began as: The Cottage Gardener; or Amateur's and Cottager's Guide to out-door gardening and spade cultivation.

  47. The American Journal of Horticulture and Florist's Companion.

  48. Nothing in the extensive field of Horticulture can afford more agreeable amusement or yield more solid satisfaction and advantage.

  49. These species are provisionally accepted in The Cherries of New York under the belief that botany and horticulture are best served by giving names freely so that all forms to which reference may need to be made may thus be better identified.

  50. The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, a practical and scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists.

  51. Annals of Horticulture and yearbook of information on practical gardening.

  52. One of the most brilliant pomologists of his time, his career seems again and again to have been checked by the weaknesses of his life; even so, he rendered horticulture valuable services for which we must give him gratitude and honor.

  53. These early Oregonians were the forerunners in the zeal and enterprise which have made horticulture on this coast the marvel of modern agriculture.

  54. Lecturer on Horticulture to the Middlesex County Council.

  55. What marvelous results European agriculture and horticulture might obtain in these countries is incalculable.

  56. The cultivation of fruit and berries and horticulture will also attain a degree of development in the future that hitherto seemed almost impossible.

  57. Man requires horticulture to be fit to come to table.

  58. Horticulture then is a name for an art that is both far-reaching and important.

  59. The word gardening is generally given to that part of horticulture which has for its chief aim the raising of vegetables for our tables.

  60. Agriculture and horticulture are the foundations of all the communes or families; but with these they have united some small manufactures.

  61. At first they looked toward agriculture and horticulture as their main-stays for income; but they began soon to unite other trades with these.

  62. He was the pioneer of scientific horticulture and agriculture in the state.

  63. Under these conditions he retired to his country seat near Citronelle, where he continued to demonstrate in a scientific way the results of horticulture and agriculture.

  64. The jury in the Department of Horticulture was on duty throughout the Exposition period, and as soon as an exhibit was placed upon the tables it was promptly passed upon by the jury, due application having been made.

  65. In the conservatory adjoining the Horticulture building proper were exhibited fine collections of ferns and a large display of gladiolas, and also one of peonies.

  66. The display in the fall of 1904 attracted a great deal of attention, not alone from visitors, but also from the superintendents of horticulture from the other States and from fruit growers in general.

  67. This collection of grapes far surpassed anything of the kind shown in the Horticulture building, not even excepting California specimens.

  68. I fenced around a twenty-acre orchard, expecting to combine horticulture and agriculture right there.

  69. The art and science of horticulture are little studied in Kansas.


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