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... seed for the use of the Kitchen and Flower Garden , to afford instruc- tion , at a trifling expense , to such of their customers as had not a regular gardener , and thereby save themselves the blame , of those who may not have given ...
... seed for the use of the Kitchen and Flower Garden , to afford instruc- tion , at a trifling expense , to such of their customers as had not a regular gardener , and thereby save themselves the blame , of those who may not have given ...
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... seed or plants by applying a light dress- ing before the seed is dropped , being careful to cover it with soil , so that the seed may not come in immediate contact with stimulating fertilizers . As some cultivators , by their method of ...
... seed or plants by applying a light dress- ing before the seed is dropped , being careful to cover it with soil , so that the seed may not come in immediate contact with stimulating fertilizers . As some cultivators , by their method of ...
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... seed or plants , and thus defeat the cultivator's object . Many gardeners can corroborate these facts , from having used strong compost as a mould for their hotbeds , thereby poisoning the germs of the seed , and causing the plants to ...
... seed or plants , and thus defeat the cultivator's object . Many gardeners can corroborate these facts , from having used strong compost as a mould for their hotbeds , thereby poisoning the germs of the seed , and causing the plants to ...
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... seed , provided the ground be fit to receive it . Some gardeners , as well as some writers , recommend cer- tain fixed days for sowing and planting particular kinds of seed ; I think it necessary to guard my readers against being misled ...
... seed , provided the ground be fit to receive it . Some gardeners , as well as some writers , recommend cer- tain fixed days for sowing and planting particular kinds of seed ; I think it necessary to guard my readers against being misled ...
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... seed ; and when I have stated that the drills should be two inches deep , it is intended that the seed should be covered only one inch , which it will be when planted in these drills and covered ; and so in proportion for any other ...
... seed ; and when I have stated that the drills should be two inches deep , it is intended that the seed should be covered only one inch , which it will be when planted in these drills and covered ; and so in proportion for any other ...
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Page 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.
Page 58 - Its stripes are so glowing, its contrasts so strong, and the arrangement of them both so elegant and artful, that it may, with propriety, be denominated the reigning beauty of the garden in its season. The Hyacinth is also an estimable flower for its blooming complexion, as well as for its most agreeable perfume and variety.
Page 26 - ... shake the powder on the surface of the plaster till the whole is covered with it, letting it remain for half an hour, to absorb the moisture ; then apply more powder, rubbing it on gently with the hand, and repeating the application of the powder till the whole plaster becomes a dry smooth surface. " If any of the composition be left for a future occasion, it should be kept in a tub or other vessel, and urine poured on it so as to cover the surface, otherwise the atmosphere will greatly hurt...
Page 131 - Skirrets should be planted in a light, moist soil, for in dry land the roots are generally small, unless the season proves wet. The root of the Skirret is composed of several fleshy tubers as large as a man's finger, and joined together at the top. They are eaten boiled, and stewed with butter, pepper, and salt, or rolled in flour and fried, or else cold, with oil and vinegar, being first boiled. They have much of the taste and flavour of a Parsnip, and are by some considered a great deal more palatable.
Page 28 - ... particles of the pollen. When a grain of pollen comes in contact with the stigma, it bursts and discharges its contents among the lax tissue upon which it has fallen. The moving particles descend through the tissue of the style, until one, or sometimes more, of them finds its way, by routes specially destined by nature for this service, into a little opening in the integuments of the ovulum or young seed.
Page 29 - Garden, what he thinks the method should be upon which a more competent person would do well to proceed. All our fruits, without exception, have been so much ameliorated by one circumstance or another, that they no longer bear any resemblance in respect of quality to their original. Who, for instance, would recognise the wild parent of the Coe's or Green Gage Plum in the savage Sloe, or that of the Ribston and...
Page 29 - 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.
Page 15 - Rose, thou art the sweetest flower That ever drank the amber shower ; Rose, thou art the fondest child Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild.
Page 28 - ... or young seed. Once deposited there, the particle swells, increases gradually in size, separates into radicle and cotyledons, and finally becomes the embryo, — that part which is to give birth, when the seed is sown, to a new individual. " Such being the mode in which the pollen influences the stigma and subsequently the seed, a practical consequence of great importance necessarily follows, viz. that in all cases of...
Page 60 - ... excellent for cooking : ripens in October, and continues fit for use till January. MURPHY. This apple in appearance resembles the Blue Pearmain ; the shape is more oblong, the size not so large ; the skin pale red, streaked or blotched with darker red, and covered with blue bloom ; flesh white, tender, and good. Raised from seed by Mr. Murphy, and introduced to notice by Mr. Manning.