单词 | spring planting |
释义 | > as lemmasspring planting b. Modifying verbal nouns, with the sense ‘occurring or taking place in the spring’, as spring planting, spring ploughing, spring sowing, etc. ΚΠ 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 15 Those Plants of the Spring sowing, that you sow later than ordinary, require to be the more watered and shadowed from the heat. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 59 This thus pulveriz'd Surface turn'd in, in the Spring-Hoing, enriches the Earth. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 351 After each spring digging,..the same care and management of the vines..must be continued. 1795 D. Walker Gen. View Agric. Hertford 39 The spring or top dressings are the leading features of the Hertfordshire farming. 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 164 Soon after the spring racking,..the casks may be gradually stopped. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 439 A top-dressing of putrescent manure may be..left on the surface till the spring-stirring. 1967 Sputnik Monthly Digest Nov. 145/1 Not only was food sorely needed, but also seed grain for the spring sowing. 2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 62 Prior to spring planting, spread the recommended rate of a granulated vegetable fertiliser. < as lemmas |
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