The American Gardener's Assistant: In Three Parts. Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-vinesPorter & Coates, 1866 - 532 sider |
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Side 59
... bright orange color , as well as for its great size and length . Carrots grow to great perfec- tion in a rich loamy soil ; and may be raised in drills drawn about one inch deep , and twelve inches asunder . A small bed may be planted at ...
... bright orange color , as well as for its great size and length . Carrots grow to great perfec- tion in a rich loamy soil ; and may be raised in drills drawn about one inch deep , and twelve inches asunder . A small bed may be planted at ...
Side 88
... bright - yellow color . The expenses of forming a Hop plantation are considerable ; but once in bearing , it will con- tinue so for ten or fifteen years before it requires to be renewed . The Hop is peculiarly liable to diseases ; when ...
... bright - yellow color . The expenses of forming a Hop plantation are considerable ; but once in bearing , it will con- tinue so for ten or fifteen years before it requires to be renewed . The Hop is peculiarly liable to diseases ; when ...
Side 124
... bright color , streaked with red veins . The several kinds of Rhubarb may be propa- gated by offsets taken from the roots early in the spring , or from seed sown early in autumn , or in March and April , in drills one inch deep and a ...
... bright color , streaked with red veins . The several kinds of Rhubarb may be propa- gated by offsets taken from the roots early in the spring , or from seed sown early in autumn , or in March and April , in drills one inch deep and a ...
Side 49
... bright red on the sunny side , and on the opposite side yellow , streaked or blotched with red ; the flesh is very juicy , tender , fine flavored , and excellent . It ripens early in August , and is good either for the dessert or for ...
... bright red on the sunny side , and on the opposite side yellow , streaked or blotched with red ; the flesh is very juicy , tender , fine flavored , and excellent . It ripens early in August , and is good either for the dessert or for ...
Side 50
... bright straw color ; flesh white and tender ; juice rich , lively , and very fine . The tree bears young , and makes a fine garden espalier ; ripening its fruit in July and August . EARLY RED JUNEATING , Red Margaret , Early Striped ...
... bright straw color ; flesh white and tender ; juice rich , lively , and very fine . The tree bears young , and makes a fine garden espalier ; ripening its fruit in July and August . EARLY RED JUNEATING , Red Margaret , Early Striped ...
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The American Gardener's Assistant: In Three Parts, Containing Complete ... Thomas Bridgeman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1867 |
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Side 136 - ... condition, as almost to insure a good crop of barley and a kind plant of clover, and that this clover is found a most excellent preparative for wheat, it will appear that the subsequent advantages derived from a crop of turnips must infinitely exceed its estimated value as fodder for cattle.
Side 25 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, DEFECTS, AND INJURIES, | IN ALL KINDS OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES." WITH AN ACCOUNT OF | A PARTICULAR METHOD OF CURE, | PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.
Side 9 - Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove. What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweet.
Side 28 - It seems that cross fertilisation will not take place at all, or very rarely, between different species, unless these species are nearly related to each other ; and that the offspring of the two distinct species is itself sterile, or if it possesses the power of multiplying itself by seed, its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents.
Side 136 - Researches,' estimated the value of the turnip crop annually grown in this country at fourteen millions ; but when we further recollect that it enables the agriculturist to reclaim and cultivate land which, without its aid, would remain in a hopeless state of natural barrenness ; that it leaves the land...
Side 20 - GRAFTING. Grafting is the taking a shoot from one tree and inserting it into another in such a manner that both may unite closely and become one tree. These shoots are called scions or grafts, and in the choice of them and the mode of preparing some descriptions of stocks, the following hints...
Side 10 - Nor is the violet last in this shining embassy of the year which with all the embellishments that would grace...
Side 21 - ... formed ; perfect success is the more certain when this is the case. The scion is now to be carefully inserted, so that the inner bark of the scion and of the stock may both exactly meet. Large stocks require two scions, one on each side ; sometimes four are inserted.
Side 27 - In sowing seeds for the purpose of procuring improved varieties, care should be had not only that the seeds be taken from the finest existing kinds, but also that the most handsome, the largest, and the most perfectly ripened specimens should be those that supply the seed. A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent, the qualities of which are concentrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity. How this concentration takes place, we are as ignorant...