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The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture

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The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.

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The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture

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These fields are in cultivation.

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Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)

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His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.

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Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

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She is a woman of great cultivation.

On these farms the cultivation of the soil and the rearing of stock go hand in hand, to the great advantage of both.

In Sardinia the cultivation is extensive, but receives little attention.

Cultivation has well-nigh exterminated it.

The state controls its cultivation, which is allowed only in a limited number of departments.

The area of oats cultivation is 1.5% of the total area.

There is a special cultivation of hops in the district north-west of 's Hertogenbosch.

Much of the island is stony and unproductive; but cultivation has not been extended nearly as much as would be possible, and the implements are primitive.

A large number of hybrids exist in cultivation.

Parts of the island are fertile, and the cultivation of vines, and the tunny and sardine fishery, also give employment to a part of the population.

The means of subsistence are mainly provided by the cultivation of grain and cattle-rearing.

A considerable area was devoted to the cultivation of apples, plums and cherries.

The cultivation of vines had also increased, and wine industries had been initiated, chiefly in Tashkent and Samarkand.

Through the resultant scarcity of labor, much land fell out of cultivation.

Cultivation has been extended under European and American rule, and in 1904 the exports from the German islands had reached a value of 83,750, and those from the American islands of is'4200.

In 1906 Sao Paulo offered premiums for its cultivation in the state.

Tile limit of profitable cultivation has almost been reached.

In spite of the predominating interest in stock-raising, intensive cultivation of the soil is practicable where the water supply is sufficient.

Perhaps Erysichthon may be explained as the personification of the labourer, who by the systematic cultivation and tilling of the soil endeavours to force the crops, instead of allowing them to mature unmolested as in the good old times.

The soil is very fertile, and many of the inhabitants have acquired much wealth from the cultivation of rice.

The cultivation of paddi (unhusked rice) forms the occupation of practically the whole population of Siam outside the capital.

The cultivation of silk cocoons, formerly a flourishing industry, has greatly declined in recent years, but efforts are now being made to revive it.

The loss to the country in wealth exported and land going out of cultivation has been very serious.

In the neighbourhood are remains of Coptic buildings, including a subterranean church (discovered 1895) in the desert half a mile beyond the limits of cultivation.

Mississippi is devoted largely to the cultivation of cotton.

There is a large variety of fruits, and the cultivation of grapes for winemaking is developing into a profitable industry.

This large number is partly accounted for by the diligent search in all countries that has been made for these plants for purposes of cultivation - they being held at present in the greatest esteem by plantlovers, and prices being paid for new or rare varieties which recall the days of the tulipomania.

The cultivation of orchids is treated under Horticulture.

Masderallia is common in cultivation and has often brilliant scarlet, crimson or orange flowers.

Laeliinae, with 22 genera, natives of the warmer parts of America, including three of those best known in cultivation, Epidendrum, Cattleya and Laelia.

Vanda (Asia) and Angraecum (Africa and Madagascar) are known in cultivation.

The climate is generally such as to secure the population the necessaries of life without severe labour; the extremes of heat and drought are such as to render the land unsuitable for pasture, and the people everywhere subsist by cultivation of the soil or commerce, and live in settled villages or towns.

The lower levels are in climate and cultivation quite similar to the regions in the same latitude on the Malay peninsula.

This evidence of a gradual process of upheaval still in action may throw some light on the physical (especially the climatic) changes which must have passed over that part of Asia since Balkh was the " mother of cities," the great trade centre of Asia, and the plains of Balkh were green with cultivation.

In recent times they enter military service less and less, betaking themselves mainly to cultivation and to the carrying business connected with agriculture.

In these two situations he made a close study of local economic conditions, personally supervising the cultivation of his lands, and entering into relations with the principal merchants of Rouen.

In these high and stony valleys every available patch of ground is utilized for the cultivation of barley, even up to altitudes of 7000 and 8000 ft.

The cultivation of the soil is, however, attended in many parts with great difficulties owing to the scanty rainfall and the very primitive implements still in use, and in the valley of the Kura heavy losses are frequently incurred from depredations by locusts.

Melons and water-melons are also important objects of cultivation.

After discussing the evolution of the different systems of cultivation, the nature of exchange and barter, money, and the functions of capital, he sets forth the theory of the impotunique, i.e.

The cultivation of the pear extends to the remotest antiquity.

Sheep-raising, involving larger holdings, less supervision and less labour, was preferred by the capitalist land-holder to the cultivation of the wheat, spelt, vines or olives which were the chief crops of the country.

It Progress of agricul- is probable that very little improvement had taken ture from place, either in the cultivation of the soil or in the 1688 to management of live stock, from the Restoration down 1760.

Large districts still clung to the old common-field system, to the old habits of ploughing with teams of four or eight, and to slovenly methods of cultivation.

The passing of some 3500 enclosure bills, affecting between 5 and 5z million acres, during the reign of George III., before which the whole number was between 200 and 250, shows how rapidly the break-up of the common-field husbandry and the cultivation of new land now proceeded.

The disastrous American War for a time interfered with the national prosperity; but with the return of peace in 1783 the cultivation of the country made more rapid progress.

The latter was accidentally discovered in 1788, and both soon came into general cultivation.

Improved varieties, obtained by cross-impregnation either naturally or artificially brought about, were carefully propagated and generally adopted, and increased attention was bestowed on the cultivation of the natural grasses.

The most notable feature in connexion with the cropping of the land of the United Kingdom between 1875 and 1905 was the lessened cultivation of the cereal crops associated with an expansion in the area of grass land.

There was thus a withdrawal during the period of over 22 million acres from cereal cultivation.

Nevertheless there are distinctions of result dependent on differences in the habits of the two plants, and in the conditions of their cultivation accordingly.