Osiers Sentence Examples

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  • The osiers grown in the vicinity of St Quentin supply an active basket-making industry.

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  • Osiers or willows when tied for market vary locally in girth.

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  • The ground about the hut was made solid and protected from corrosion by a palisade of wattled osiers, thus creating the earliest form of the fondamenta, or quay, which runs along the side of so many Venetian canals and is so prominent a feature in the construction of the city.

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  • Some harder varieties, known as stone osiers and raised on drier upland soils, are peeled and used for fine work.

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  • It is commonly supposed that osiers or willows will prove remunerative and flourish with little attention on any poor, wet, marshy soil.

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  • The cultivation of osiers is attended with many disturbing causes - winter floods, spring frosts, ground vermin and insect pests of various kinds, sometimes working great havoc to the crop.

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  • A pamphlet on the cultivation of osiers in the Fen districts is issued in England by the Board of Agriculture.

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  • Pollarding willows osier cutting Osiers The osier willow, Salix viminalis, was important to both the riverside economy and the local wildlife.

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  • The species employed for this purpose are mostly of shrubby habit, and are known under the collective name of osiers (see Basket, and Osier).

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  • On the continent of Europe osiers or willows are bunched in sizes of one metre in girth at the butts and (except in Belgium) are also sold by weight.

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