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Definition of Layering
1. n. A propagating by layers.
Definition of Layering
1. Noun. A method of plant propagation by rooting cuttings. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of layer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Layering
1. layerage [n -S] - See also: layerage
Medical Definition of Layering
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Layering
Literary usage of Layering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Suburban Horticulturist, Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"layering, from the certainty which attends it, was formerly much more extensively
employed as a mode of propagation than it is at present ; the art of ..."
2. School and Home Gardening: A Text Book for Young People, with Plans by Kary Cadmus Davis (1918)
"This method is called tip layering and is a common method practiced for propagating
black ... Black Raspberry bushes may be propagated by tip-layering. ..."
3. Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and by Peter Henderson (1884)
"PROPAGATING BY layering. Although florists now rarely resort to ... Although layering
may be done with the ripened wood of vines or shrubs of the growth of ..."
4. Handy Book of the Flower-garden by David Thomson (1893)
"Propagation by layering.—Bush. Roses are easily increased by the ordinary process
of layering, which is simple and easily performed even by the ..."
5. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1866)
"Those who wish to propagate a few vines of any particular sort of the grape, may
do it most easily by layering. This is easily performed, and will succeed ..."
6. Horticulture for Schools by Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch, Milo Nelson Wood, Charles Junius Booth (1922)
"otherwise it is treated the same as in simple layering. Compound layering is much
used with vines. 76. Continuous layering (Fig. ..."
7. A New and Easy System of Draining and Reclaiming the Bogs and Marshes of by Robert Monteath (1829)
"layering NATURAL OAK WOODS.—To those noblemen and gentlemen in the Highlands of
... To those of you who have been going on with the plan of layering, ..."
8. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"layering, from the certainty which attends it, was formerly much more extensively
employed as a mode of propagation than it is at present; ..."
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