after-crop

Jute is generally grown as an after-crop in India upon high ground, and flourishes best in a hot and rainy season.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

We were advised to have an after-crop, but did not; it would have made the land very poor for the next year, so that what we gained in hay we must have expended in manure.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

But she exploits the idea only under a single and obvious aspect, viz., the comparison of the tender bloom of love with the precious firstling blade which brews the quintessential tea for the Chinese emperor's table; what the world calls love being, like what it calls tea a coarse and flavourless after-crop.

Love's Comedy Henrik Ibsen 1867

Though a formal peace was come, though the primary movers of war had taken hands or kissed each other, and were exchanging suspicious courtesies, yet the unquiet temper of war was still abroad everywhere, with an after-crop of miserable incidents.

Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866

Upon them followed indeed a sort of after-crop of troubles, seriously injurious to the stage.

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

But they should be so sown as to involve as little prejudicial an after-crop, as may be -- as little prejudicial especially to those distinguished sons who cannot be expected to refrain from such natural sowing.

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

The ugly after-crop of superstition which is growing up among us now is the just and natural punishment of our materialism -- I may say, of our practical atheism.

The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

Then the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero's final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of half-pence would be plentiful or scant.

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

Then the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr. Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero's final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of half-pence would be plentiful or scant.

Old Curiosity Shop 1800

God has given thee grace, which is the fore-crop, and will give thee glory, which is the after-crop; and may not this make thee content?

The Lord's Prayer 1692