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Definition of Suckering
1. sucker [v] - See also: sucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suckering
Literary usage of Suckering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Tropical Agriculture by Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls (1906)
"suckering.—This is the term applied to the operation of removing the buds which
appear in the angles formed by the stem and the upper part of the leaf ..."
2. The Culture of Tobacco by George M. Odlum, Brith South Africa Company (1905)
"suckering. As soon as the plant is topped, or even before, small shoots or suckers
start out from the axils of all the leaves. If these suckers be . ..."
3. The Fruit Grower's Instructor: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation by George Miles White (1825)
"TYING AND suckering OF BUDS. Par. 19.—The next thing is the tying and suckering
of buds; it is necessary when the suckers shoot out from the stocks to cut ..."
4. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1898)
"The suckering propensity is usually caused by breaking or bruising the roots with
the plow. It blossoms after all danger of late spring frost. ..."
5. Tobacco from the Seed-bed to the Packing Case ...: Plain Practical by W. T. Sim (1897)
"In about ten days after suckering, the crop will generally be ready to cut ; just
before cutting, however, the suckers should all be broken from the stalk ..."
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