The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, المجلد 3

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Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1828
 

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الصفحة 213 - Amherst to complete his inquiry into the resources of the valuable forests of that and the neighbouring districts. Until this be effected the full extent of his successful researches cannot be known. The number of species collected by him amounted, when the mission left him at Amherst, to about sixteen thousand, of which five hundred and upwards are new and undescribed. Among these last may be mentioned seven species of oak, two species of walnut, a rose, three willows, a raspberry, and a pear ;...
الصفحة 449 - Europeans find it serviceable in cases of diarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. The fruit is, perhaps, the most useful part of the tree. Its pulp is slightly acid and agreeable, and frequently eaten ; while the juice is expressed from it, mixed with sugar, and constitutes a drink, which is valued as a specific in putrid and pestilential fevers.
الصفحة 66 - ... which are as excellent and agreeable as almonds, and when pressed yield an abundance of oil, equal to that of the finest olives. Perennial ; on the margins of forests, enveloping the trees with its branches. Plants have flowered in the stove at Bury Hill. Mr. Telfair has sent...
الصفحة 59 - Barren shoots, when too vigorous to be cut down to their lowest eye, are treated exactly in the same manner. At the winter pruning, the branches which have borne fruit are cut down to the insertion of the replacing shoots, which, in their turn, are ebourgconnee, bear fruit, and are cut out like their predecessors.
الصفحة 440 - The pine-apple in its wild state is found near the sea-shore; the sand accumulated there in downs serving for its growth, as well as for that of most of the species of the same family. The place where the best pine-apples are cultivated is of a similar nature. In the sandy plains of...
الصفحة 67 - Cere1, director of the royal gardens in the Isle of France, communicated specimens and observations to the Chevalier de Lamarck." The Dutch, having possession of the Spice Islands in 1619, encouraged to the utmost of their power the cultivation of the nutmeg in a few. of them, pursuing the same line of policy as they did with regard to the clove, and long retaining the monopoly of culture : but, in 1772, M. Poivre introduced the nutmeg to the Isles of France and Bourbon, as well as the clove ; from...
الصفحة 448 - Such trunks are then hollowed into chambers, and within them are suspended the dead bodies of those to whom are refused the honour of burial. There they become mummies, perfectly dry and well preserved, without further preparation or embalming, and are known by the name of Guiriots.
الصفحة 186 - ... pits. Brick flues, from the numerous joints, and the mortar cracking, are subject to give out at times a sulphurous gas, which is injurious to plants ; and even with two fireplaces in a house forty or fifty feet long, it is impossible to keep up an equal temperature in the whole length ; the houses get over-heated in the neighbourhood of the fire-place, and it is difficult to keep up a proper temperature at the extremities of the flues. Steam may do very well on a large scale, and when there...
الصفحة 5 - It sometimes occurs that, when the tree is very vigorous, some of the buds (Jig. 3. bb) will push into shoots, or occasionally into bloom, during the latter end of summer. If shoots, they are allowed to grow, and are then shortened, as described for similar shoots; but, when bloom is produced, it is immediately cut off close under the blossom. The shoots (Jig.
الصفحة 4 - Third Year — Winter Pruning. Such of the buds as produced wood shoots the last year, and were shortened during summer as described, are now shortened more. It frequently happens that a fruitful bud, or in some instances two, will have been formed at the lower part of the shoot (fig. 2.

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