Pruned Sentence Examples

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  • Fruit trees may be pruned from now till March in the north.

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  • When worked at the top of a stem formed of the stock, the growth from the graft or bud must be pruned in a similar way.

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  • It may be pruned or clipped into any shape.

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  • If a piece of bark and cortex are torn off, the occlusion takes longer, because the tissues have to creep over the exposed area of wood; and the same is true of a transverse cut severing the branch, as may be seen in any properly pruned tree.

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  • The others are generally pruned so as to combine a moderate supply of young wood with a greater or less number of fruit spurs.

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  • Thus in the peach, nectarine, apricot, plum and cherry, which are commonly trained fan-fashion, the first three (and also the morello cherry if grown) will have to be pruned so as to keep a succession of young annual shoots, these being their fruit-bearing wood.

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  • This is the proper foundation for a good specimen, and illustrates how all such subjects should be pruned to keep them stocky and presentable in form.

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  • The Pharisees, who pruned and fed the tree of Judaism so that it might bear fruit for the healing of the Nation - and the nations in the latter days - gave them the opportunity of posing as the champions of the primitive standards.

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  • This shrub can become quite unkempt if not pruned well back.

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  • They pruned Burkes Economical Reform Bill till it left as many abuses as it suppressed; and though the bill prohibited the grant of pensions above 300, they hastily gave away pensions of much larger value to their own friends before the bill had received the royal assent.

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  • Buy Plants Online Summer flowering clematis can be pruned back hard.

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  • More vigorous cultivars can be pruned back harder, which will stop the center of the plant going bare.

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  • This segued nicely into german reminder phrases while Chris pruned the grapevine.

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  • A Deutzia that is pruned each year by Stuart, was becoming very lanky, with a bare bottom.

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  • A threshold is placed on the phone posteriors, and those phones below the threshold are pruned.

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  • Languages like java are designed to give you a heavily pruned search space.

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  • And as anyone who has ever pruned a rosebush knows, life flows through every rosebush in a slightly different way.

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  • This needs to be pruned regularly throughout the summer to keep it from going straggly.

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  • Here are extracts from their Journal and from Musical Opinion of that year, heavily pruned of much verbiage of the period.

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  • They should be top-dressed annually with good rich soil, and pruned, leaving the vigorous stems and the branches that yield the finest bloom.

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  • These B. variabilis forms are best pruned in March, or even later.

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  • It is worth noting that some of the early kinds of European Vine ripen well in some of our warm valleys, all the more so if pruned and trained as in France, but even without that they sometimes fruit very well.

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  • It is semi-evergreen and can be pruned as a hedge or left to grow up to 8 feet as a screen.

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  • May be pruned to a shrub size, if desired.

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  • Can be pruned to a shrub size if space requires.

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  • Pruning encourages new growth, and clematis tend to push out new shoots from areas that have been pruned the prior year.

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  • It is then pruned, in order clearly to show the mode of branching, and is spread out as naturally as possible with the right hand.

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  • The Mufaddaliyat differs from the Hamasa in being a collection of complete odes (gasidas), while the latter is an anthology of brilliant passages specially selected for their interest or effectiveness, all that is prosaic or less striking being pruned away.

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  • It invariably happens during the most active period of feeding, three or four days after the fourth moult up to the rising, and generally appears after a meal of coarse leaves, obtained from mulberries pruned the same year and growing in damp soil.

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  • They retain their Armenian liturgies and rites, pruned to suit the Vatican standards of orthodoxy, and they recognize the pope as head of the church.

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  • To form a standard tree, either the stock is allowed to grow up with a straight stem, by cutting away all side branches up to the height required, say about 6 ft., the scion or bud being worked at that point, and the head developed therefrom; or the stock is worked close to the ground, and the young shoot obtained therefrom is allowed to grow up in the same way, being pruned in its progress to keep it single and straight, and the top being cut off when the desired height is reached, so as to cause the growth of lateral shoots.

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  • If the shoots produced are not sufficient in number, or are badly placed, or very unequal in vigour, the head should be cut back moderately close, leaving a few inches only of the young shoots, which should be pruned back to buds so placed as to furnish shoots in the positions desired.

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  • Fruit trees trained as espaliers, fans or cordons against walls, trellises or fences, are not only pruned carefully in the winter but must be also pruned during the early summer months.

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  • The older plants will occasionally require the roots pruned in order to keep them in as small pots as possible without being starved.

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  • If vines have been neglected to be pruned, rub off the buds that are not wanted; this is safer than pruning now.

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  • In the outside flower garden little can be done except that shrubs may be pruned, or new work, such as making walks or grading, performed, if weather permits.

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  • In all warm or comfortable days the fruit trees may be pruned.

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  • Fruit trees and grape vines generally should be pruned; and, if the wood of the vine is wanted for cuttings, or scions of fruit trees for grafts, they should be tied in small bundles and buried in the ground until spring.

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  • Grapes may be pruned.

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  • In northern India, where the weather in the winter months is cold and dry, growth practically ceases, and then the whole area is pruned and cut down to about 16 ins.

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  • The head is pruned to form six or eight strong offsets; and by judicious use of the knife, and by training, preferably on a hoop placed within them, these are caused to grow outwards and upwards to a height of about 6 ft.

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  • Further, that the former (Roman) is the more original of the two, being related to the latter (Antiochene) as fuller first draft to severely pruned copy.

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  • Clematis that bloom in the spring should be pruned in the fall, and those that bloom summer and fall should be pruned in late winter or early spring, before the plant grows new leaves.

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  • The bonsai plants you purchase have already been pruned and trained, so you'll perform only occasional maintenance trimming.

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  • Unlike natural potted trees, artificial topiary trees require no watering, will not shed, and are perfectly pruned.

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  • The appearance of a specimen pelargonium properly pruned is shown in fig.

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  • In the second case all roots that have struck downwards into a cold uncongenial subsoil must be pruned off if they cannot be turned in a lateral direction, and all the lateral ones that have become coarse and fibreless must also be shortened back by means of a clean cut with a sharp knife, while a compost of rich loamy soil with a little bone-meal, and leaf-mould or old manure, should be filled into the trenches from which the old sterile soil has been taken.

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  • It is doubtful if the attempts of reformers to spiritualize the Eucharist bring us, except so far as they pruned ritual extravagances, nearer to its original significance; perhaps the Roman, Greek and Oriental churches have better preserved it.

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  • Cordons of apples and pears have to be similarly treated, but cordons of peaches and nectarines are pruned so as to provide the necessary annual succession of young bearing wood.

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  • The pot plants are overhauled in the autumn, the roots pruned, a layer being cut off to allow new soil to be introduced.

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