The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and Laying-out of Kitchen Gardens ... Concluding with a Kalendar, Giving Instructions Relative to the Sowings, Plantings, Prunings ... in Each Month of the YearThe author, 1829 - 479 Seiten |
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annual plant apples apricot April asparagus August autumn beans bear beautiful biennial plant blossoms blows a white blows a yellow borders bottom branches broccoli buds cabbages cauliflowers clumps colour covered crop cucumbers cultivated drills dung early earth endive England espalier feet high flower in June Fontanesia foot four feet frost fruit garden grafting green-house grow hardy shrub hedge height hot-bed inches inches high keep layers leaves lettuces limbs List of Fruits manner manure melons month mould nectarines never offsets peach pears peas perennial plant pots pretty Propagated by seed Propagated by sowing pruning radishes ripe roots rows scion shoots shrubberies side Silphium six inches soil sorts sowing the seed sown spring stem suckers summer thing three feet transplant tree trench turnip vines wall weather weeds white flower winter wood yellow flower Ziziphora
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Seite 10 - ... cut upward instead of downward. Then place the scion upon the stock, inserting the tongue of the scion into the tongue of the stock. Bring the four edges of the bark — that is, the two edges of the cut in the top of the stock, and the two corresponding edges of the cut in the bottom of the scion, to meet precisely ; or, if the scion be in diameter a smaller piece of wood than the stock, so that its two edges of bark cannot both meet those of the stock, then let only one meet, but be ture that...
Seite 6 - Take the pots of plants, one at a time, put the fingers of one of your hands on the top of the earth of the pot, then turn the pot upside down, give the rim of it a little tap upon the edge of the frame, pushing the...
Seite 6 - May, and hardly ever later than about the first week of June. The late King George the Third, reigned so long that his birthday formed a sort of season with gardeners ; and, ever since I became a man I can recollect that it was always deemed rather a sign of bad gardening if there were not green peas in the garden fit to gather on the 4th of June.
Seite 9 - First, as to the saving of seed, the truest plants should be selected ; that is to say, such as are of the most perfect shape and quality. In the Cabbage we seek small stem...