The New American Garderner: Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of Fruits and Vegetables : Including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grape-vines, Silk, Strawberries, &c. &cOtis, Broaders, 1839 - 306 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 1 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
الصفحة 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
الصفحة 109 - ... especially to those who have retired from the busy scenes of active life. Man was never made to rust out in idleness. A degree of exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health, both of body and mind, as food. And what exercise is more fit for him, who is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a well ordered garden ? What more enlivens the sinking mind ? What more invigorates the feeble frame 1 What is more conducive to a long life?
الصفحة 16 - which relishes fruit, is seldom pleased with strong fermented liquors ; and as feeble causes, continually acting, ultimately produce extensive effects, the supplying the public with fruit at a cheap rate, would have a tendency to operate favorably, both on the physical and moral health of the people.
الصفحة 203 - Antidote to poisonous sorts: all fungi should be used with great caution, for even the edible garden mushrooms possess deleterious qualities when grown in certain places. All the edible species should be thoroughly masticated before taken into the stomach, as this greatly lessens the effects of poisons. When accidents of this sort happen, vomiting should be immediately excited, and then the vegetable acids should be given, either vinegar, lemon juice, or that of sour apples; after which give ether...
الصفحة 196 - M'Mahon's directions for raising melons in the open ground. Some time in May, " prepare a place of rich, sandy ground, well exposed to the sun ; manure it, and give it a good digging ; then mark it out into squares of six feet every way ; at the angle of every square dig a hole twelve inches deep, and eighteen over, into which put seven or eight inches deep of old hot-bed dung, or very rotten manure ; throw thereon about four inches of earth, and mix the dung and earth well with the spade ; after...
الصفحة 78 - Haselquist relates, that more than two hundred men, during a siege, were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of the gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually to dissolve.
الصفحة 202 - ... grounds in masses of rotten horse-dung, sometimes under stable floors, and frequently in the remains of old hotbeds) is to be placed in rows six inches apart, occupying all the sloping parts of the bed, which is again to be covered with a second inch of fresh mould and a coat of straw. If your bed has been well constructed your mushrooms will be fit for use at the end of five or six weeks, and will continue to be productive for several months. Should you, however, in the...
الصفحة 115 - November, the glasses being previously filled with pure water, so that the bottom of the bulb may just touch the water. Then place them for the first ten days in a dark room, to promote the shooting of the roots ; after which, expose them to the light and sun as much as possible. They will blossom without the aid of the sun ; but the colors of the flowers will be inferior.