manurial
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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When making up potting soil, manure or leaf mould, an occasional sprinkling will increase the manurial value and also destroy the worms and other insects.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
A very wide experience, however, of the effect of different manures on different crops, has conclusively proved that their manurial requirements differ very considerably.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
The theory of this manurial feeding will make clear the fact that a proper application of liquid manure has practically all the advantages of the former method without its drawbacks.
From Making a Rose Garden by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
Rice-meal, an adulterant of guano, 319; manurial constituents of, 282.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
Delphiniums are greedy feeders, and pay for rich cultivation and for liberal manurial mulches and waterings.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
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