The Strawberry in North America: History, Origin, Botany, and BreedingMacmillan, 1917 - 234 Seiten |
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Seite 3 - is the wonder of all the fruits growing naturally in those parts. It is of itself excellent; so that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry. In some parts, where the natives have planted, I have many times seen as many as would fill a good ship, within few miles
Seite 111 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; 3 I do beseech you, send for some of them.
Seite 111 - Wife, into thy garden, and set me a plot, with strawberry roots, of the best to be got: Such growing abroad, among thorns in the wood, well chosen and picked, prove excellent good.
Seite 92 - In the vicinity of Boston, the following mode is often adopted : — The vines are usually transplanted in August. The rows are formed from eighteen inches to two feet asunder. The runners, during the first year, are destroyed. In the "second year, they are suffered to grow and fill the interval, and in the autumn of that year, the whole old rows are turned under with the spade, and the rows are thus shifted to the middle of the space. The same process is repeated every second year.
Seite 101 - We believe it is now the generally received opinion of all intelligent cultivators (italics are ours again) that there is no necessity of making any distinction in regard to the sexual character of the plants when forming new beds. The idea of male and female flowers, first originated, we believe, by Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, is now considered as exploded." Such a sudden change as this was brought about, he says, by additional information received during that year by means of his correspondents, and...
Seite 3 - There is likewise Strawberries in abundance, verie large ones, some being two inches about; one may gather halfe a bushell in a forenoone. In other seasons there be Gooseberries, Bilberries, Resberries, Treacleberries, Hurtleberries, Currants; which being dried in the Sunne are little inferior to those that our Grocers sell in England.
Seite 105 - Wild or cultivated, the strawberry presents, in its varieties, four distinct forms or characters of inflorescence. 1st. Those called Pistillate, from the fact that the stamens are abortive, and rarely to be found without a dissection of the flower. These require extrinsic impregnation. 2d. Those called Staminate, which are perfectly destitute of even the rudiments of pistils, and are necessarily fruitless. 3d.
Seite 185 - ... they dissolve the tartareous incrustations of the teeth ; they promote perspiration. Persons afflicted with the gout have found relief from using them very largely ; so have patients in case of the stone ; and Hoffman states, that he has known consumptive people cured by them. The bark of the root is astringent.
Seite 225 - ... every kind. I ate across the patch north and south, east and west, backwards and forwards. The results of the whole test were duly published ; whereupon a neighbor three miles away said it might all be very well, but the varieties did not behave that way with him ! What the farmer wants to know is the value of the variety upon his place, not upon the experiment station farm, and he is the only person who can find it out. To thoroughly test a variety is to introduce it. When it is once introduced,...