Lexicographical Neighbors of Caprify
Literary usage of Caprify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"... to caprify their own orchard, and who wish an additional supply for their own
use and not for sale. So far as possible mamme will be sent in small boxes ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Only 30 Capri Figs are needed to caprify a large Fig tree, so abundant are the
insects and the pollen in good seasons, and one tree of the wild Fig is ..."
3. Palladius On husbondrie: From the unique ms. of about 1420 A.D. in by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (1879)
"Now caprify the fig-tree. I have known several graft it. Peaches are now inoculated,
and men dig round the palm. ..."
4. Biennial Report by California State Board of Horticulture (1892)
"... and others which the Neapolitans do not caprify, produce abundance of fertile
seeds, even in places where ..."
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