A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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Page vii
... garden- ing world than to reduce all horticultural operations to their first principles , and to lay bare the naked causes why in one case one mode of procedure is advisable , and another in another . But there are few persons who are ...
... garden- ing world than to reduce all horticultural operations to their first principles , and to lay bare the naked causes why in one case one mode of procedure is advisable , and another in another . But there are few persons who are ...
Page x
... gardener , in selecting a variety to become the parent of a new sort , to stimulate that variety by every means in his power to produce the largest and the most fully ripened fruit ... garden , and that improvements of the X INTRODUCTION .
... gardener , in selecting a variety to become the parent of a new sort , to stimulate that variety by every means in his power to produce the largest and the most fully ripened fruit ... garden , and that improvements of the X INTRODUCTION .
Page xiv
... gardener has recourse in order to increase the fertility of his fruit trees , is to be explained by what has just been said . In ringing fruit trees , a cylinder of bark is cut from the branch , by which means the return of the ...
... gardener has recourse in order to increase the fertility of his fruit trees , is to be explained by what has just been said . In ringing fruit trees , a cylinder of bark is cut from the branch , by which means the return of the ...
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Page 509 - 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 577 - ... sowing of seed for general crops until June or July. If a small quantity of each esteemed variety be sown two or three times in these months, they will produce a plentiful supply for use in autumn and the early part of winter. One ounce of good Endive-seed will produce about five thousand plants. When the plants...