Lexicographical Neighbors of Rogueing
Literary usage of Rogueing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book and Proceedings of the Annual Convention by American Seed Trade Association (1902)
"rogueing, the rejecting of the poorest is fighting against the law of heredity,
which is merely kicking against the pricks. The better way is not to fight ..."
2. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"The "rogueing" must be continued faithfully, generation after generation, ...
It may be necessary to continue the " rogueing " indefinitely in order to hold ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The rogueing. or removing of undesirable plants. ... a field after rogueing has
been completed. it is well known that we have a class of variations which we ..."
4. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1896)
"While rogueing them they are on the lookout for the finest plants producing the
best blooms. ... rogueing out off colors is only one-half what is needed. ..."
5. Crop Production in Western Canada by John Bracken (1920)
"liy selecting desirable heads from his field or by rogueing 'nit the undesirable
ones from a plot set aside for soed. I f he has a pure variety that is ..."
6. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1896)
"While rogueing them they are on the lookout for the finest plants producing the
best blooms. ... rogueing out off colors is only one-half what is needed. ..."
7. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"Many of our best varieties are becoming contaminated through the apparent lack
of careful rogueing and through cross-pollenation with other varieties ..."
8. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1894)
"... their letting in a rogueing Scotch woman that haunts the office, to helpe them
to washe and scoure in our house, and that very lately, I fell mightily ..."
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