The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 4;Volume 14

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Longman, Rees, Orome, Brown and Green, 1838
 

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Página 54 - Low.— Elements of Practical Agriculture ; comprehending the Cultivation of Plants, the Husbandry of the Domestic Animals, and the Economy of the Farm. By D . Low, Esq.
Página 94 - Guide ; containing ample Descriptions of all the fine leading varieties of Roses, regularly classed in their respective Families ; their History and Mode of Culture. Fifth Edition, corrected and improved. Fcp.
Página 197 - Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Derby, of the best 14 bushels of Red Wheat, of the harvest of 1842, and grown by himself.
Página 238 - ... weather, or any other casualty. As soon as the egg hatches, the little grub gnaws a hole in the crown of the apple, and soon buries itself in its substance; and it is worthy of remark that the rind of the apple, as if to afford every facility to the destroyer, is thinner here than in any other part, and consequently more easily pierced. The apple most commonly attacked is the codling, a large early sort, which ripens in July and August.
Página 382 - Nature, on a scale of a quarter of an inch to a foot, of all the trees of ten years...
Página 553 - June 14th, 1838. Having been present at the experiments made at Mr. Cooper's house, with a view of determining the degree of deterioration which the air suffers by the employment of Joyce's stoves in close rooms, and having examined, in conjunction with him, the...
Página 151 - The nature and property of soils; their connexion with the geological formation on which they rest; the best means of permanently increasing their productiveness, and on the rent and profits of agriculture.
Página 96 - ... the powdered lime or the fragments of burnt marl and the pebbles could sink through compact earth to some inches beneath the surface, and still remain in a continuous layer ; nor is it probable that the decay of the grass, although adding to the surface some of the constituent parts of the mould, should separate in so short a time the fine from the coarse earth, and accumulate the former on those objects which so lately were strewed on the surface.
Página 380 - A general system of gardening and botany; containing a complete enumeration and description of all plants hitherto known, with their generic and specific characters, places of growth, time of flowering, mode of culture, and their uses in medicine and domestic economy; preceded by introductions to the Linnaean and natural systems, and a glossary of the terms used.
Página 96 - ... different kinds of subsoil, and the uniform fineness of its particles. The latter fact may be well observed in any gravelly country, where, although in a ploughed field, a large proportion of the soil consists of small stones, yet in old pasture.

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