The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Band 16

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Hovey and Company, 1850
 

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Seite 556 - are so trimmed, introduce a spade under one side of the tree and heave it over, so as not to leave a single tap root. Fill in the mould; if the weather is dry give the tree a soaking of water, and it is finished. If your soil is poor, give a
Seite 483 - a dilatation -of the volume of the water takes place, and it becomes lighter; the heated particles rising upwards through the colder ones, which sink to the bottom by their greater specific gravity, and they in their turn become heated, and
Seite 463 - The Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture. By HENRY STEPHENS, FRSE, author of the Book of the Farm,
Seite 322 - be substituted for similar quantities of the two Fescues, such quantities being dependent on the extent and depth of the shade. In walks, bowling-greens, &c., which are wished to be kept as dry as possible, especially towards the end of the season, Trifolium repens should be sparingly introduced; and when it is intended to mow the grass by
Seite 386 - that while the ratio of loss by conduction continues the same, for the same excess of temperature, whatever be the absolute temperatures of the air and heated body, radiation increases in velocity for like excess of temperature, when the absolute temperatures of the air and heated body increase.
Seite 257 - about the same time that the punctures ceased upon the fruit on the trees. They go through their chrysalis state in three weeks after going into the ground, and remain in a torpid state through the season unless the earth is disturbed.
Seite 311 - done; not pruning them so closely as to weaken the trees by excessive bearing, nor leaving them so entirely to their natural growth as to cause their annual productiveness to be destroyed by a superfluity of wood. These shoots, in the spring of the year, I have usually shortened to a blossom-bud.
Seite 139 - for the able and satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the duties of the office of president during the last
Seite 385 - Heated bodies give off their caloric by two distinct modes, radiation and conduction ; these are governed by different laws, but the rate of cooling by both modes increases considerably in proportion as the heated body is of
Seite 482 - the subject as a simple question of hydraulics, instead of a compound result of hydrodynamics. If the question were only as regards a fluid of uniform temperature, then the. greatest effect would be obtained by

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