120 examples of tubers in sentences

A Northamptonshire term for goose-grass (Galium aparine) is pig-tail, and the pig-nut (Brunium flexuosum) derived this name from its tubers being a favourite food of pigs, and resembling nuts in size and flavour.

For scrofulous glands, the knotty tubers attached to the kernel-wort (Scrophularia nodosa) have been considered efficacious.

USES OF THE JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE.This being a tuberous-rooted plant, with leafy stems from four to six feet high, it is alleged that its tops will afford as much fodder per acre as a crop of oats, or more, and its roots half as many tubers as an ordinary crop of potatoes.

By many it is much esteemed as an esculent, when cooked in various ways; and the domesticated animals eat both the fresh foliage, and the tubers with great relish.

It is on this starch that the nutritive properties of the tubers depend.

The vendors awaken to the consciousness of hunger, and Madame of the pommes frites stall, whose assistant dexterously cuts the peeled tubers into strips, is fully occupied in draining the crisp golden shreds from the boiling fat and handing them over, well sprinkled with salt and pepper, to avid customers, who devour them smoking hot, direct from their paper cornucopias.

To the uninitiated the victim seems to have eaten of "insane roots that take the reason prisoner"; while the illuminate too often looks upon the stems and flowers of language, the highest achievements of thought and poesy, as mere handles by which to pull up the grimy tubers that lie at the base of articulate expression, shapeless knobs of speech, sacred to him as the potato to the Irishman.

Among the tubers produced are sweet potatoes, white potatoes, yams, the arum and the yucca.

Plant the tubers in March, 6 in.

When flowering is over take up the young bulbs and treat them as directed afterwards for old tubers.

Another way to propagate them is to place the old tubers in soil over a hotbed early in March.

When the shoots are a couple of inches high the tubers may be taken up and divided with a sharp knife.

It is increased by separating the tubers in autumn, and produces its flowers in May.

Sweet, white, and pleasant; the tubers are boiled and served up with butter.

At the beginning of February stand the tubers on end in shallow boxes, and expose them to the light to induce the growth of short, hard, purple sprouts.

Directly flower appears, pick it off, as it retards the growth of the tubers.

Press the tubers (claws downwards) firmly into the soil, placing them 2 or 3 in.

The tubers should be planted 5 in.

When the foliage fails, keep the tubers dry till spring.

If grown out of doors the tubers must be lifted before frost sets in. Savoys.

The tubers may remain permanently in the ground, or they may be lifted and divided in summer, as soon as the foliage dies down.

So the woman began to walk up the village street and every one laughed at her and the children ran after her and smacked her and jumped and shouted for joy and the ojhas called out to her "You must not take off the tubers until you are cured.

For the farmer reaping his whitened fields, For the bounty which the rich soil yields, For the cooling dews and refreshing rains, For the sun which ripens the golden grains, For the bearded wheat and the fattened swine, For the stallèd ox and the fruitful vine, For the tubers large and cotton white, For the kid and the lambkin frisk and blithe, For the swan which floats near the river-banks, Lord God of Hosts, we give Thee thanks!

Bread is now made of rye, which the Kamchadals raise and grind for themselves; but previous to the settlement of the country by the Russians, the only native substitute for bread was a sort of baked paste, consisting chiefly of the grated tubers of the purple Kamchatkan lily.

Several other tubers, or roots, are eaten.

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