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Example sentences for "setting them"

  • Late in March remove them to a coldframe, and properly harden them off before setting them in the open ground.

  • They may be transplanted early in the spring, setting them 2 ft.

  • After cold weather sets in, keep the Indian or evergreen kinds half dormant by setting them in a cool, dull-lighted cellar or pit, bringing them in when wanted for bloom.

  • For cuttings, about the same season, take such as are about the bigness of your thumb, setting them a foot in the earth, and near as much out.

  • He visited the Stakes of Zion in Utah and the surrounding territories, setting them in order, teaching, counseling and encouraging the Saints with all the energy and kindness of his great soul.

  • If he planted trees the holes must be made large; in setting them in, the fibres of the roots must be spread out and the soil placed round them carefully, and then be well watered that they might have every chance to live.

  • If sown in a nursery-bed, transplant when the young plants have eight or ten leaves; setting them at the distances before directed.

  • The last of June, or as soon as the plants have attained sufficient size, transplant them into soil that is well enriched, and has been deeply stirred; setting them at the distance directed for the variety.

  • In transplanting, treat the plants like young cabbages; setting them more or less remote, according to the size or habit of the variety.

  • Illustration] When large traps, such as that just described, are used, there will not unfrequently be some risk and danger in setting them.

  • For central supports we took two forked poles, and instead of setting them upright at the two ends of the ridge pole gained additional rigidity by crossing them like an X, and lashing them together in the centre.

  • Ground lines often well repay the trouble bestowed on setting them.

  • A week before planting them out they should be given abundance of air and light to "harden off" the plants preparatory to setting them in sun and wind.

  • After cold weather sets in, keep the Indian or evergreen kinds half-dormant by setting them in a cool, dull-lighted cellar or pit, bringing them in when wanted for bloom.

  • Plant in the fall, in the open, setting them 3 to 4 inches deep.

  • They are hardy perennials, and may be transplanted early in the spring, setting them 2 feet apart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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