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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... strong loam , repeated and high manuring with stable and other stim- ulating manure will steadily improve it . If it be heavy loam or clay , cart on sand or road - wash as freely as you can from time to time , and manure often and ...
... strong loam , repeated and high manuring with stable and other stim- ulating manure will steadily improve it . If it be heavy loam or clay , cart on sand or road - wash as freely as you can from time to time , and manure often and ...
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... strong sun , will find his sea- son's labor largely increased or his crop a failure . Plowing should be performed with a strong team . On all good soils , and especially in a garden , it should be from twelve to fifteen inches deep ...
... strong sun , will find his sea- son's labor largely increased or his crop a failure . Plowing should be performed with a strong team . On all good soils , and especially in a garden , it should be from twelve to fifteen inches deep ...
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... strong double - mould plow , which seems to save half the labor , but seldom does its work well . Strong loam or clay land , which , if plowed 22 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN ,
... strong double - mould plow , which seems to save half the labor , but seldom does its work well . Strong loam or clay land , which , if plowed 22 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN ,
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... Strong loam or clay land , which , if plowed or dug in the fall and laid flat , might be injured rather than benefited , is greatly improved by careful ridging for winter , particularly if lime , ashes , or manure , or all of them , be ...
... Strong loam or clay land , which , if plowed or dug in the fall and laid flat , might be injured rather than benefited , is greatly improved by careful ridging for winter , particularly if lime , ashes , or manure , or all of them , be ...
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... preparation of the ground , or in working be- tween certain crops in wide rows . It is performed with the spade ( Fig . 37 , p . 48 ) , or a strong fork made for the purpose , and called a spade - fork ( Fig . 50 , 24 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN .
... preparation of the ground , or in working be- tween certain crops in wide rows . It is performed with the spade ( Fig . 37 , p . 48 ) , or a strong fork made for the purpose , and called a spade - fork ( Fig . 50 , 24 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN .
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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...