The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and Laying-out, of Kitchen Gardens, Etc. Concluding with a Kalendar, Giving Instructions Relative to the Sowings, Plantings, Prunings, and Other Labours, to be Performed in the Gardens, in Each Month of the YearW. Cobbett, 1829 - 552 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 cabbages cauliflowers 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 green-house grow hardy shrub hedge height hot-bed inches inches high keep kitchen-garden layers leaves lettuces limbs List of Fruits manner 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 5 - 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, well-formed loaf, few spare, or loose leaves ; in the turnip, large bulb, small neck, slenderstalked leaves, solid flesh, or pulp ; in the radish, high -colour (if red or scarlet), small neck, few and short leaves, and long top. The marks of perfection are well known, and none but perfect plants should be saved for seed....
Seite 3 - If possible, therefore, transplant when the ground is not wet ; but, here again, as in the case of sowing, let it be dug, or deeply moved, and well broken, immediately before you transplant into it.
Seite 50 - The box is at once the most efficient of all possible things, and the prettiest plant that can possibly be conceived : the colour of its leaf ; the form of its leaf ; its docility as to height, width, and shape ; the compactness of its little branches ; its great durability as a plant : its thriving in all sorts of soils, and in all sorts of aspects ; its freshness under the hottest sun, and its defiance of all shade and all drip : these are beauties and qualities, which, for ages upon ages, have...
Seite 8 - The stem of a cabbage, and stems of all the cabbage kind, send out roots from all the parts of them that are put beneath the surface of the ground. It is good, therefore, to plant as deep as you can without injury to the leaves. The next consideration is, the fastening of the plant in the ground.
Seite 52 - ... for ages upon ages, have marked it out as the chosen plant for this very important purpose. The edging ought to be clipped in the winter or very early in spring on both sides and at top; a line ought to be used to regulate the movements of the shears; it ought to be clipped again in the same manner about midsummer; and if there be a more neat and beautiful thing than this in the world, all that I can say is, that I never saw that thing.
Seite 10 - Yet, it is a received opinion, a thing taken for granted, an axiom in horticulture, that melon seed is the better for being old. Mr. MARSHALL says that it ought to be " about four years old, though some prefer it much older...