Partial starvation will sometimes effect this; hence the grafting of freegrowing fruit trees upon dwarfing stocks, as before alluded to, and also the " ringing " or girdling of fruit trees, i.e. [Please select]
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There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest. [Please select]
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The only harm to be laid to his account is that, in his zeal, he sometimes makes a ring of small holes so continuous as to inadvertently damage the tree by girdling it. [Please select]
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The word today, used as a noun, denotes the system of wires with stations and operators and messengers, girdling the earth and reaching into every civilized community, whereby news is carried swiftly by electricity. [Please select]
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_) often observed girdling of honey locust and crab apple (_Pyrus ioensis_) root crowns on the Reservation but I saw no evidence of bark eating, perhaps because my study plots were mostly grassland. [Please select]
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Again the Southern leaders felt that the rivers were always a hostile coil girdling them about, and lamented their own lack of a naval arm. [Please select]
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