unfruitfulness

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Sometimes the rootstock will force to the top too much growth, which is likely to bring about unfruitfulness.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Because, after weary years of unfruitfulness, she has at length got her rights in the shape of a baby.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

During the time we were with them, they attributed to his displeasure their want of success in taking fish as they had done in former times, and the unfruitfulness of their bread-fruit and cocoa trees.

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Holden, Horace

Three years of unfruitfulness through almost the whole of Europe had been followed by a commercial crisis, which threatened the town with entire destruction. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

The unfruitfulness of the seasons besides, for several years past, obliges me to think of making some abatements in my rents; which I cannot possibly settle unless I am present.

From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Melmoth, William