injurious

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Insects Injurious to Filberts.—My personal observations lead me to believe that the filberts and hazels are, in this country, remarkably free from the depredations of noxious insects.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.

Injurious insects find their doom when the young house and Carolina wrens are on the wing.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

The Injurious Effects of Standing Water in the Subsoil may be best explained in connection with the description of a soil which needs under-draining.

From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

Injurious as the excise duty undoubtedly was to the glass trade generally, and especially to the flint-glass industry, it is possible that it may have helped to develop the art of decorative glass-cutting.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

Injurious effects of the storm.Discouragement of the men.

From William the Conqueror Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob