16 Metaphors for cultivations

On the plains, or in the open country, the great cultivation is wheat and barley; in suburban districts, vegetables and fruits are propagated.

At any rate, it gradually opened upon me, that the free cultivation of the understanding, which Latin and Greek literature had imparted to Europe and our freer public life, were chief causes of our religious superiority to Greek, Armenian, and Syrian Christians.

Here then I take up the subject; and having determined that the cultivation of the intellect is an end distinct and sufficient in itself, and that, so far as words go, it is an enlargement or illumination.

Indeed, the mere superintendence would occupy the whole of one man's attention, and its proper cultivation would be the work of six or eight.

As for myself"he added in a half-regretful manner, for old habits and opinions would occasionally cross his mind"as for myself, the cultivation of turnips must be my future occupation.

Its cultivation was, and is still, extensively carried on in nearly all Eastern countries; also in Spain, Southern France, and some portions of the United States.

Bog cultivation is the Heath Society's youngest child.

This rice cultivation, too, although it does not affect them as it would whitesto whom, indeed, residence on the rice plantation after a certain season is impossibleis still, to a certain degree, deleterious even to the negroes.

I have hinted in these volumes my belief that exclusive sugar cultivation, on the large scale, has been the bane of the West Indies.

No doubt the cultivation of figs in California will become a prosperous trade, for the climate and circumstances there are much like those of Syria.

This cultivation of unirrigated land, which has come to be almost our only agriculture is a concession that Spanish indolence makes to hunger, a perpetual demonstration of the fanaticism that trusts in prayer or in the rain from heaven more than in human progress.

Cultivation, no doubt, is quite an art here, a splendid effort of will and science and organization, as is needed to draw from this old soil such crops as it can still produce.

The cultivation of a taste for spices is a degradation of the sense of taste.

The cultivation of the farm is the natural employment of man.

One may easily infer that to meet such a universal want there must be a correspondingly great industry, and the cultivation of the betel nut is indeed a great industry, and a most beautiful one.

John Forster, of Hanlop, in Bucks, wrote a pamphlet in 1664 to shew that the more extended cultivation of this root would be a great national benefit.

16 Metaphors for  cultivations