The New American Gardener: Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of Fruits and Vegetables; Including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grape-vines, Silk, Strawberries, &c., &cOtis, Broaders,, 1842 - 306 páginas |
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 5 - ... 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.
Página 161 - The object of preparation in these three substances being to get rid of the 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...
Página 16 - such as catarrhs, coughs, consumptions, &c. they are of considerable service. For these beneficial purposes, however, they ought not to be eaten raw, but either roasted, stewed, or boiled. They may also be usefully ^employed in decoctions, which, if drank plentifully, tend to abate febrile heat, as well as to relieve painful strictures in pectoral complaints.
Página 235 - Soap-suds, heated after a family wash, and poured on the roots of trees about the middle of August, have been used with success in destroying the eggs or the young worm. " ' According to Mr. John Ellis, of New Jersey, the injury arising from the worm may be prevented in the following way : " 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...
Página 159 - ... which plant a row of sets across the bed at nine inches apart, each way, with their crowns upright ; afterwards dig the next trench the same width and depth, turning the earth into the first trench, over the row of sets ; thus proceeding, trench after trench, to the end. Where more than the produce of one bed is required for the supply of the family for twelve months, the third bed is next to be...
Página 162 - ... on this he forms the dung-bed to the same inclination ; and, finally, the frame, when placed on such a bed, if, as is usual, it be deepest behind, will present its glass at an angle of twenty degrees, instead of six or eight ; which is, undoubtedly, of great advantage in the winter season.
Página 237 - Each variety of the apple has its own peculiar form of growth ; and this it will ultimately assume, in a considerable degree, in defiance of the art of the pruner. Something may nevertheless be done to correct whatever is defective. When the growth of any variety is weak and reclining, the principal stem should be trained to a considerable height before it be allowed to produce branches ; and if any of these take horizontal or pendent direction, they should be regularly taken off.