The American Gardener

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C. Clement, 1821 - 128 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 11 - Planting should be undertaken as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, the...
الصفحة 40 - I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
الصفحة 13 - ... about nine inches in length. The stick should not be tapering ; but nearly of equal thickness all the way down, to within an inch and a half of the point, where it must be tapered off to the point. If the wood be cut away all round, to the thickness of a dollar, and iron put round in its stead, it makes a very complete tool. The iron becomes bright, and the earth does not adhere to it, as it does to wood. Having the plant in one hand, and the stick in the other, make a hole suitable to the root...
الصفحة 13 - Now with regard to the tillage, keep the ground clear of weeds. — But, whether there be weeds or not, hoe between the plants in ten days after they are planted. You cannot dig between the plants which stand at the smallest distances, but you may, and ought, to dig once, if not twice, during their growth, between all the rest. To prevent a sudden check, by breaking all the roots at once in hot weather, dig every other interval, and dig the rest a week later.
الصفحة 40 - ... it should be dug just before the act of sowing, in order that the seeds may have the full benefit of the fermentation that takes place upon every moving of the earth. Never sow when the ground is wet; nor, indeed, if it can be avoided, perform any other act with or on the ground of a garden. If you dig ground in wet weather, you make a sort of mortar of it: it binds when the sun or wind dries it. The fermentation does not take place; and it becomes unfavorable to vegetation, especially if the...

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