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Example sentences for "mildew"

Lexicographically close words:
milch; mild; milde; milder; mildest; mildewed; mildews; mildly; mildness; mildnesse
  1. For the heart grows rich in giving-- All its wealth is living gain; Seeds which mildew in the garner Scattered fill with gold the plain.

  2. The time is coming when the man who cares not for another Shall be accounted as a stain upon a fair creation; Who lives to fill his coffers full, his better self to smother, As blight and mildew on the fame and glory of a nation.

  3. What if the day should come when this love, so strong and ardent now, should become one more of the beautiful illusions of life, a deserted pavilion flecked through and through with the mildew of indifference?

  4. All that was best and highest to her seemed touched with this mildew of mockery.

  5. After all, money was one of the greatest safeguards against that mildew of unexpectant monotony with which the years were so largely infected when once one began to find things out.

  6. Any mould or mildew growing on the floor or walls is very apt to infect the food.

  7. Here and there the fruit in some gardens will escape year after year; again, on places not far away, the blighting mildew is sure to appear before the berries are fully grown.

  8. The latter are so inclined to mildew in almost every locality that there is rarely any certainty of satisfactory fruit.

  9. When mildew and grape-rot first appear, the evil can often be remedied in part by dusting the vines with sulphur, and continuing the process until the disease is cured, if it ever is.

  10. Stop mildew by dusting the leaves with sulphur.

  11. If mildew attack the trees before the leaves have performed their necessary functions, dust the affected shoots with sulphur.

  12. If any indication of mildew appear an application of the flowers of sulphur, when the foliage is damp, will banish it.

  13. Mildew to be banished by an application of flowers of sulphur, and afterwards to be prevented from making its appearance by a free ventilation on clear, mild mornings, using a little fire heat at the same time.

  14. If mildew appears, to be dusted with flowers of sulphur.

  15. If mildew appears, dust them with flowers of sulphur.

  16. The same precautions must be used against mildew and insects as given in January.

  17. If weather is cold and backward, however, and in very northern regions, care must be taken not to stop firing too soon, or the plants will mildew and become stunted.

  18. At present black melancholy hovers round my footsteps; and sorrow sheds a mildew over all the future prospects, which hope no longer gilds.

  19. The mildew respects not the lordly robe, and the worm riots unchecked on the cheek of beauty.

  20. The one is sunlight, and the other is damp, which brings mildew and disfigurement in its train.

  21. But I have heard some collectors say, "My miniatures have never been put against damp walls; they have been kept in cases always, yet they have mildew on them.

  22. Mildew causes the tenderest leaves to curl up and some of them seem to be covered with a white powder.

  23. This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

  24. There's no mildew on my vines, and I have neither seen nor heard of any starlings.

  25. I shall be sorry to see you so unmanly as to sink down in the mildew of an abject melancholy.

  26. If you have drained the marshland and reclaimed the house from mildew and mice you have made your neighbors debtors.

  27. This is the most perfect of them all; not a speck of blight or mildew in it.

  28. To prevent mildew on books, lightly wash over the backs and covers with spirits of wine, using as a brush the feather of a goose quill.

  29. Downy mildew is a fungous trouble affecting the leaves and destroying the further usefulness of the vine.

  30. Mildew is a field enemy of the pea, resulting from unfavorable weather.

  31. A disease which lately threatened to destroy the business of growing pickles in New Jersey and elsewhere, the downy mildew of the cucumber, can be fully overcome by spraying the vines with Bordeaux mixture.

  32. The two leaf troubles are respectively known as blight or downy mildew and the Macrosporium disease.

  33. And tossing o'er the press I mark The horse-tail banner over all, [75] Shaped like the smudge of mildew dark That lies on the distempered wall.

  34. At the same time with this contrivance, some bunches of black Prince Grapes were shewn to the assembled horticulturists, which could only be preserved from mildew by frequent applications of sulphur.

  35. Comfortless days upon days; brave lives are sobbing their last; man after man roll down to the death, to mildew and rot, and thou wilt be left alone!

  36. When we have finally dried the soles of our boots and wiped the mildew of the forest off their tops, our dreams will be undisturbed by one enemy at least.

  37. The core of my heart, the mildew findeth it!

  38. Liver of Sulphur Wash for Mildew and other fungi, and for Red Spider.

  39. This should be repeated once a week, and even before there is a sign of Mildew on the leaves, prevention being better than cure.

  40. Much like Crimson Rambler; said to be mildew proof.

  41. Should mildew set in, syringe the vine with a mixture of soapsuds and sulphur.

  42. Mildew may be cured by sprinkling the leaves with sulphur while dew is on them.

  43. That which the palmer worm hath left, the locust hath eaten; and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten; and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

  44. For thou hast fallen beneath the simoom of passion, Or perished with the mildew of disappointment.

  45. Labrusca is said to be more sensitive in its wild state to mildew and black-rot than any other American species, but the evidence on this point does not seem to be wholly conclusive.

  46. Mildew is usually brought on by a sudden change of temperature or by draughts in the grapery.

  47. If taken in time, mildew is easily kept in check by preventing the conditions which favor it, and by dusting the vines in dry sunshine with sulfur.

  48. In localities in which mildew and rot thrive, the variety is badly attacked by these diseases.

  49. It is hard to tell how much damage this disease does, but it is not usually great and the late applications of bordeaux mixture for black-rot or powdery-mildew are very effective in controlling it.

  50. As growth progresses, or if mildew appears, the frames are more and more ventilated.

  51. The vines lack in hardiness and vigor, are susceptible to mildew and other fungi and are productive only under the best conditions.

  52. American species of grapes, varieties that will resist phylloxera, the mildew and black-rot.

  53. Downy-mildew (Plasmopara viticola) rivals black-rot for first place among fungous diseases of the grape.

  54. Many of the varieties of Bourquiniana show a marked susceptibility to mildew and black-rot; in fact, the whole Herbemont group is much inferior in this respect to the Norton group of Æstivalis.

  55. The vine is vigorous and hardy, but hardly sufficiently productive, and is susceptible to mildew and leaf-hoppers.

  56. Rupestris under cultivation is said to be very resistant to rot and mildew of the foliage.

  57. Unfortunately the vine is difficult to grow, being adapted to but few soils and proving unfruitful, weak in growth, precariously tender and subject to mildew and rot in unfavorable situations.

  58. In eastern America powdery-mildew is controlled by the treatment recommended for black-rot.

  59. The vine of Berckmans is not only more vigorous, but is less subject to mildew than that of Delaware.


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