The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, and Shrubbery. To which are Added Brief Notes on Farm Crops ...Harper & brothers, 1859 - 531 Seiten |
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... winter , or in the preparation of plowed land for crop ridging , the work is sometimes done by the use of a large and pretty strong double - mould plow , which seems to save half the labor , but seldom does its work well . Strong loam ...
... winter , or in the preparation of plowed land for crop ridging , the work is sometimes done by the use of a large and pretty strong double - mould plow , which seems to save half the labor , but seldom does its work well . Strong loam ...
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... winter , particularly if lime , ashes , or manure , or all of them , be previously applied , and are covered up or incorporated in the process of ridging . SUBSOIL PLOWING . In subsoil plowing , a deep furrow turned with the common plow ...
... winter , particularly if lime , ashes , or manure , or all of them , be previously applied , and are covered up or incorporated in the process of ridging . SUBSOIL PLOWING . In subsoil plowing , a deep furrow turned with the common plow ...
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... winter cab- bages , and among lettuces the screw and the globe forms , may be regarded as the best , and no plant of them which does not come near or up to this standard should be used in the produc- tion of seed . COLOR OF VEGETABLES ...
... winter cab- bages , and among lettuces the screw and the globe forms , may be regarded as the best , and no plant of them which does not come near or up to this standard should be used in the produc- tion of seed . COLOR OF VEGETABLES ...
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... winter feeding to cattle , and those of the same kind intended for the table , should not be sown at the same time , a large crop being a main object in raising the former , and excellence of quality chiefly desirable in the latter ...
... winter feeding to cattle , and those of the same kind intended for the table , should not be sown at the same time , a large crop being a main object in raising the former , and excellence of quality chiefly desirable in the latter ...
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... winter root crops as to carry them clear of the summer heats and into fall weather , with its cool nights and heavy dews , while they are yet in the first or second stages of their growth . If this be done , and their after cultivation ...
... winter root crops as to carry them clear of the summer heats and into fall weather , with its cool nights and heavy dews , while they are yet in the first or second stages of their growth . If this be done , and their after cultivation ...
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apple bearer bearing bloom blossoms BRIEF DIRECTIONS cabbage carefully color common common turnips compost covered crop cucumbers cultivation culture desirable dibber drills dwarf early earth eggs eighteen inches fall feet Flavor Flesh white Flesh yellowish-white flowers French Fruit large Fruit medium fruit-trees garden grafting green green-house grow growth guano half hardy high culture hill hot bed inches inches deep insects juicy kinds Larva larvæ layers lettuce light loam manure moderate obovate offshoots onions ordinary PARENT BUG peach pear peas pistils plow plum Portulacca pots pretty purple radishes raised rich soil rieties Ripens roots rose roundish rows russet season seed seedling shade shrubs side slightly sometimes sown stamens stem straw strong subacid summer savory surface sweet tender thin tion transplanted tree turnip varieties vegetable vigorous vines winter pruning worm yellow Young branches young plants young shoots
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Seite 66 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...