The Young Gardener's Assistant: Containing a Catalogue of Garden & Flower Seeds, with Practical Directions Under Each Head for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers ; Also Directions for Cultivating Fruit Trees, the Grape Vine, &c., to which is Added a Calendar, Showing the Work Necessary to be Done in the Various Departments of Gardening in Every Month of the Year |
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... covered only one inch , which it will be when planted in these drills , and covered , and so in proportion for any other depth required . This may serve as a guide to the young gardener , but circum- stances alter cases ; if , for ...
... covered only one inch , which it will be when planted in these drills , and covered , and so in proportion for any other depth required . This may serve as a guide to the young gardener , but circum- stances alter cases ; if , for ...
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... covering up seed , some do it with a hoe , others with a rake or harrow ; some draw a portion of the earth to the side of the bed ; and after sowing the seed , return it regularly over the bed ; in some particular cases a sieve is used ...
... covering up seed , some do it with a hoe , others with a rake or harrow ; some draw a portion of the earth to the side of the bed ; and after sowing the seed , return it regularly over the bed ; in some particular cases a sieve is used ...
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... covered with light dung , litter , leaves of trees , or the like , the better to preserve the crowns and roots from its rigour . In this manner , the roots will remain in perfect safety all the winter . As soon as the very severe frosts ...
... covered with light dung , litter , leaves of trees , or the like , the better to preserve the crowns and roots from its rigour . In this manner , the roots will remain in perfect safety all the winter . As soon as the very severe frosts ...
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... covered half an inch with light earth . When the plants are up , they will need a careful hoeing , and if culti- vated , and kept free from weeds , they will be large enough to transplant when they are a year old . Some keep them in the ...
... covered half an inch with light earth . When the plants are up , they will need a careful hoeing , and if culti- vated , and kept free from weeds , they will be large enough to transplant when they are a year old . Some keep them in the ...
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... covered to the depth of several inches with leaves , sea - weed , or long litter from the livery stables . The seedling Asparagus should also have a slight dress- ing , that is , to clear the bed from weeds , and then to spread an inch ...
... covered to the depth of several inches with leaves , sea - weed , or long litter from the livery stables . The seedling Asparagus should also have a slight dress- ing , that is , to clear the bed from weeds , and then to spread an inch ...
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Page 139 - I COME, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song; Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose .stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 168 - Farewell) a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 166 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender 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.
Page 334 - This table and the accompanying remarks are the result of many years' actual observation ; the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon in their several positions respecting the earth ; and will, by simple inspection, show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon into any of her quarter», and that so near the truth as to be seldom or never found to fail.
Page 258 - that more than one hundred men during a siege, were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually to dissolve.
Page 164 - For thee, sweet month, the groves green liv'ries wear, If not the first, the fairest of the year ; For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, And nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
Page 113 - ... chocolate color, and it is then more apt to be confounded with other kinds of dubious quality ; but that species which most nearly resembles it, is slimy to the touch, and destitute of the...
Page 172 - She would now inspire none but delightful ideas, and therefore always makes her appearance in some amiable suit. Here stands a warrior clad with crimson ; there sits a magistrate robed in scarlet ; and yonder struts a pretty fellow, that seems to have dipped his plumes in the rainbow, and glitters in all the gay colours of that resplendent arch.
Page 171 - It needs no such attractions to render it the darling of the curious, being sufficiently engaging from the elegance of its figure, the radiant variety of its tinges, and a certain superior dignity of aspect.
Page 57 - March ; and towards the latter part of May, they should be planted in a rich, warm piece of ground, at the distance of two feet and a half asunder, every way, for the purple, or two feet for the white kind ; and if kept clean, and a little earth be drawn up to their stems, when about a foot high, they will produce plenty of fruit. Or, the seed may be sown about the end of April, on a warm border, and planted out finally the beginning of June ; but these will be rather late, and not produce fruit...