show fruit
Example Sentences
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I cultivate in corn until they begin to show fruit, then in millet twice; I have never cultivated the orchard without a crop.
From The Apple by Various
Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom.—Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Another fortnight had gone by, and the long hours passed is the music-room, which had been temporarily converted into a studio, were beginning to show fruit in the shape of a nearly completed portrait.
From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret
It may also be necessary to take off some of the shoots that show fruit where they are very thick.
From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William
Four of the largest trees show fruit, and each of these has only about a half-dozen of the globular cones.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
