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 CropsHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 531 Seiten |
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Seite 28
... cabbages , salad , & c . , in the one , and in the other the tenderer , as pepper , egg - plant , & c . , which require greater warmth and more careful treatment . ( See Hot Bed . ) One or more compartments of a pit may , if found ...
... cabbages , salad , & c . , in the one , and in the other the tenderer , as pepper , egg - plant , & c . , which require greater warmth and more careful treatment . ( See Hot Bed . ) One or more compartments of a pit may , if found ...
Seite 30
... cabbages , lettuces , & c . , under others , so that they can receive more or less airing as they may require ; or set a thin board , as a temporary partition , between them , under the cross - bar of the frame . Shade the bed until the ...
... cabbages , lettuces , & c . , under others , so that they can receive more or less airing as they may require ; or set a thin board , as a temporary partition , between them , under the cross - bar of the frame . Shade the bed until the ...
Seite 67
... cabbage or lettuce , or an im- proved melon , or pumpkin , or cucumber , will be likely to yield a much scantier crop of seed than one which is inferior . The same law holds among flowers . Almost all wild flow- ers are single , and ...
... cabbage or lettuce , or an im- proved melon , or pumpkin , or cucumber , will be likely to yield a much scantier crop of seed than one which is inferior . The same law holds among flowers . Almost all wild flow- ers are single , and ...
Seite 69
... cabbage has become thick and marrowy , and it has acquired a habit of head- ing before throwing up its seed - stalk . In the beet , turnip , etc. , we find a habit of fleshy enlarge- ment or swelling . So great is the change thus ...
... cabbage has become thick and marrowy , and it has acquired a habit of head- ing before throwing up its seed - stalk . In the beet , turnip , etc. , we find a habit of fleshy enlarge- ment or swelling . So great is the change thus ...
Seite 70
... cabbage or lettuce , on the other hand , when its head assumes the form of a cone , is approxi- mating to a loose , headless growth , like that of the kale , or the rape , or the wild lettuce . For the purposes of this work , it may ...
... cabbage or lettuce , on the other hand , when its head assumes the form of a cone , is approxi- mating to a loose , headless growth , like that of the kale , or the rape , or the wild lettuce . For the purposes of this work , it may ...
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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 garden grafting green green-house grow growth guano half hardy head 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...