The New American Gardener, Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of Fruits and Vegetables: Including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grapevines, Silk, Strawberries, &c. &c

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J.B. Russell, 1835 - 306 Seiten
 

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Seite 2 - 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...
Seite 6 - ... satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements of his own art and diligence ; to be always gathering of some fruits of it, and at the same time to behold others ripening, and others budding : to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous creatures of his own industry ; and to see, like God, that all his works are good : Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Orcades ; ipsi Agricolae tacitum pertentant gaudia pectus.
Seite 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.
Seite 207 - 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...
Seite 200 - 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...
Seite 162 - These linings, as before observed, require less preparation than the dung for the beds. The dung-bed, being formed, and having stood two or three days with the frame and lights placed over it to protect it from rain, is next to be covered with earth of quality, and in quantity, according to the purpose to which it is to be applied.
Seite 161 - In these three substances being to get rid of violent heat, which is produced when the fermentation is. most powerful, it is obvious, that preparation must consist in facilitating the process. For this purpose, a certain degree of moisture and air in the fermenting bodies...
Seite 241 - Bellangee, of Egg Harbor, New Jersey. He has a small house provided with a stove, and drawers in the sides of the house lathed at their bottoms, with void intervals. The peaches should be ripe and cut in two, not peeled, and laid in a single layer on the laths, with their skins downward, to save the juice. On shoving in the drawer, they are soon dried by the hot air produced by the stove. In this way great quantities may, successively, in...
Seite 184 - Our ancestors gave to every part of a garden all the exactness of geometric forms: they seem to have known of no other way to plant trees, except in straight lines; a system totally ruinous to the beauty of the prospect. We now see how ridiculous it was, except in the public gardens of the city, to apply the rules of architecture to the embellishment of gardens. The majestic trunk is now allowed the liberty of displaying its form, or of following in its vigorous shoots the plan of nature. Gardens...
Seite 235 - In the spring, when the blossoms are out, clear away the dirt so as to expose the root of the tree, to the depth of three inches; surround the tree with straw about three feet long, applied lengthwise, so that it may have a covering, one inch thick, which extends to the bottom of the hole, the...

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