Lexicographical Neighbors of Layerage
Literary usage of Layerage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Propagation: Greenhouse and Nursery Practice by Maurice Grenville Kains (1916)
"layerage is the rooting of stems while still attached to the parent plant.
The rooted pieces are cut off to form new plants. ..."
2. The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication of Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1896)
"All vines, and all plants which have runners or long and slender shoots which
fall to the ground, may be multiplied readily by layerage. ..."
3. The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1891)
"layerage.—The operation or practice of making a layer, or the state or condition
of being layered. Layer.—A shoot or root, attached to the parent plant, ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1862)
"The lands must be cleared for sowing, and the layerage for sheep is getting very
bad; so that if this can be done with tolerable facility, ..."
5. Fertilizers: The Source, Character and Composition of Natural, Home-made and by Edward Burnett Voorhees (1898)
"... (Requisites of Germination, Seed-Testing, Handling and Sowing of Seeds);
Separation and Division; layerage; ..."
6. Plant Production by Ransom Asa Moore, Charles Parker Halligan (1919)
"Propagation by layerage. ... that do not readily take root from cuttings may
often be conveniently propagated by layerage. By this method a branch is ..."
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