Gill sprouts are slower in coming into bearing than suckers, but the results are usually more satisfactory.
Pineapples are propagated by means of suckers coming from the base of fruit-bearing plants, or from smaller suckers, or, as they are termed, robbers or gill sprouts that start from the fruiting stem just at the base of the fruit.
After bringing up to the boil again, take the sprouts out and drain on a sieve and then on a dry cloth, so that no water remains in them.
Boil up well, then put in the sprouts and allow all to simmer gently for half an hour.
Other nuts the children destroyed, and in spite of my sorrow and anguish in two weeks the walnut sprouts came up in the pots.
You had a nice clean trunk, and you didn't have that problem of getting rid of the sprouts all the time.
Ben intended, in the fall, to set out his apple trees right among the stumps and ashes, and never to plough the ground, but to keep the growth of sprouts and weeds down with the axe and scythe.
If the forest is cut off, the sproutsand bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever.
The plant is the ever-living, ever-verdant, or green, out of which the animal dailysprouts forth as a blossom.
The sprouts or offshoots detach themselves from the parent and become independent animals; but they frequently continue to stand as ramules upon the maternal animal, though they nourish themselves independently of the latter.
In the cryptomeria forests there was a variety which, when cut, sprouts from the ground and makes a new growth like an elm.
Foreigners usually like the young sprouts taken from the roots of the bamboo, a favourite Japanese vegetable.
In hop-growing districts the surplus sproutsare thrown away.
Gather the sprouts before the heads develop, soak them for half an hour in water slightly salted; drain; boil for ten minutes, and serve them with a plain salad dressing.
Betel and tobacco sprouts were introduced on coarse brass dishes, and a like attention was paid to our servants, who sat on the opposite side of the room.
After some time, boxes containing betel and tobacco sprouts were offered; and afterwards sweetmeats in profusion were introduced.
With elegant, variegated leaves; the crown leaves and sprouts at the base of the fruit also variegated.
Broadway, which sprouts theatres as a natural garden sprouts flowers, was jewelled with lights, lights that in the clear air of this continent shone with a lucidity that we in England do not know.
By the application of sand and compost, the soil should be kept loose, to allow the sprouts to spring easily from the crowns.
Many cultivate currants in the tree form; allowing no sprouts from the roots, and no branches within a foot or two of the ground.
I'll cut the sprouts down, but don't ask me to cut down a tree that looks that way when the wind blows.
They insisted on my seeing the kitchen garden, and were very proud that their Brussels sprouts took the first prize at the Bath Vegetable Show in the Spring.
This lists shows not only the widespread interest in the subject but also that the chestnut sprouts are still bearing nuts.
Since acquiring the place in 1936, I have allowed the pecan sprouts and the few native walnuts to grow unchecked except where necessary to cut them out to avoid crowding.
The growth of these sprouts is quite vigorous, and they are ideal for top-working.
In ten or twelve days the young sprouts should begin to appear, and the bed should be watered if dry.
Rub off the sprouts from potatoes kept for eating, and pick out all decayed specimens.
Do not let the cabbage club-root disease breed on wild turnips and other mustards, or black-knot on plum sprouts and wild cherries, or tent-caterpillars on wild cherries and other trees.
When the sprouts are 4 to 6 inches high, the tubers are carefully planted.
One reason is because too many sprouts arise from each one, and these sprouts are likely to crowd each other.
These sprouts should be about 3 to 5 inches long by the time the ground is warm enough to plant them out on their ridges.
Sweet-potatoes are grown from sprouts planted on ridges or hills, not by planting the tubers, as with the common or Irish potato.
It is essential that the sprouts are not broken in the handling.
The plant is grown for the buttons or sprouts (miniature cabbage heads) that grow thickly along the stem (Fig.
Sprouts in old chestnut clearings are often allowed to remain, and sometimes they are grafted to the improved varieties.
This stock, therefore, tends to dwarf the tree, and it is also likely to throw up sprouts from the roots.
The sprouts when pulled from the tuber will be found to have rootlets at the lower end and along the stems.
The sprouts of this age are such green withered things, 'tis a great comfort to us grown up people: I except my own daughter, who is to be the ornament of the ensuing court.
In ratooning the plant, only one sprout ought to be allowed to grow, and this from those most deeply rooted; all other sprouts ought to be destroyed.
In about a week the tinysprouts of the onion seed began to appear above the ground.
In a very short time, however, new sprouts spring up from the old root, and ere long the native has another cluster.
Ay; but he says there's something wrong about his head--sprouts pressing up, or something that way.
About a twelvemonth ago I felt as if there were two sprouts budding out of my forehead, but on putting up my hand I could feel nothing.
Page 42--The Chinese character for the name Ono reads "little field"; then there is the suggestion that there is little in the way of greensprouts yet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
