 | Agriculture - 1834 - 652 pages
...may manure to whatever extent he chooses, his crops will dwindle, and become poorer and poorer. . . . To account for this specific poisoning of the soil,...reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which, in process of time, saturate it, and thus render it incapable of furnishing those plants any longer with... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 614 pages
...local term, if the land be "aeer-peaeiC' it becomes as it were poisoned and if pease be again planted, though they rise from the soil, they soon turn yellow...must suppose that particular plants convey into the soi, through tlr channels of t/ieir reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which in process of... | |
 | Gardening - 1834 - 648 pages
...may manure to whatever extent he chooses, his crops will dwindle, and become poorer and poorer. . . . To account for this specific poisoning of the soil,...reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which, in process of time, saturate it, and thus render it incapable of furnishing those plants any longer with... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...local term, if the land be " overpea'd," it becomes as it were poisoned; and if peas be again planted, though they rise, from the soil, they soon turn yellow, are "foxed," and product nothing of a crop. With my best wishes for your restoration to health; and success in your... | |
 | Wiliam adn Sons - 1838 - 624 pages
...over-pecid for overcropping with pease, which so poisons the soil, that " if pease be again planted, though they rise from the soil, they soon turn yellow, are 'foxed,' and produce nothing of a crop." (Quart. Journ. of Agriculture, iv. 6-58.) I ought now to proceed, in due order, to go over examples... | |
 | John Towers (C.M.H.S.) - 1839 - 746 pages
...term, if the land be " over-peaed," it becomes, as it were, poisoned ; and, if peas be again planted, though they rise from the soil, they soon turn yellow,...we must suppose, that particular plants convey into tht soil, through the channels of their reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which, in process... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY, ALEBEMARLE STREET. - 1843 - 632 pages
...crop. Comparing these facts, I arrived at the inference which I stated in tlie following terms : — " Particular plants convey into the soil, through the...reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which, in process of time, saturate it, and thus render it incapable of furnishing those plants any longer with... | |
 | R.J. Willis - Science - 2007 - 316 pages
...term, if the land be "over-peaed" , it becomes, as it were poisoned; and, if peas be again planted, though they rise from the soil, they soon turn yellow,...reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which in process of time saturate it, and thus render it incapable of furnishing those plants any longer with... | |
 | JOSEPH ROBERSON - 1855 - 778 pages
...term, if the land be over-pea'd, it becomes, as it were, poisoned ; and if pease be again planted, though they rise from the soil they soon turn yellow,...reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which in process of time saturate it, and thus render it incapable of furnishing those plants any longer with... | |
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... foxed", and produce nothing of a crop. To account for this specific poisoning of the soil, we must suppose, that particular plants convey into the soil, through the channels of their reducent vessels, certain specific fluids, which in process of time... 