Practical and Scientific Fruit CultureLee and Shepard, 1866 - 523 pages |
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... inches square . These patches are com- posed , of course , only of the finer portions of sand , adhering to each other by a thin film of gelatinous matter , which gives buoyancy to the mass . I have been surrounded frequently by patches ...
... inches square . These patches are com- posed , of course , only of the finer portions of sand , adhering to each other by a thin film of gelatinous matter , which gives buoyancy to the mass . I have been surrounded frequently by patches ...
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... ) square inches , absorbed in twelve , twenty - four , forty - eight , and seventy - two hours respectively , as shown in the following table . Kinds of Soil . CAPILLARY ATTRACTION . TABLE C. 69 Absorption of moisture from.
... ) square inches , absorbed in twelve , twenty - four , forty - eight , and seventy - two hours respectively , as shown in the following table . Kinds of Soil . CAPILLARY ATTRACTION . TABLE C. 69 Absorption of moisture from.
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... inches of Soil required to cool from 144 ° to 70 ° Fahr , the tem- perature of the surrounding air being about 61 ° Fahr . h . m . 3.30 Calcareous sand , Silicious sand , • 100.0 . • 95.6 3 27 Gypsum , 73.2 2 34 Sandy clay , 76.9 2 41 ...
... inches of Soil required to cool from 144 ° to 70 ° Fahr , the tem- perature of the surrounding air being about 61 ° Fahr . h . m . 3.30 Calcareous sand , Silicious sand , • 100.0 . • 95.6 3 27 Gypsum , 73.2 2 34 Sandy clay , 76.9 2 41 ...
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... is supplied with moisture . 1. By rain . The average annual quantity which falls throughout the United States is between thirty and forty inches . It is a source of great wealth , and RAIN . 91 contains one - half more oxygen ,
... is supplied with moisture . 1. By rain . The average annual quantity which falls throughout the United States is between thirty and forty inches . It is a source of great wealth , and RAIN . 91 contains one - half more oxygen ,
Page 92
... inches , of a loamy nature , in which clay or sand predominates ; then , it may be , a layer of sand or gravel which freely admits the passage of water ; and perhaps next , and within two or three feet of the surface , a stratum of clay ...
... inches , of a loamy nature , in which clay or sand predominates ; then , it may be , a layer of sand or gravel which freely admits the passage of water ; and perhaps next , and within two or three feet of the surface , a stratum of clay ...
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absorb ADAPTATION OF VARIETIES apple autumn bark Bartlett become Belle Lucrative Bellefleur BEST SIX VARIETIES Beurré Beurré d'Anjou Beurré Diel Black bonne de Jersey Canada West cane carbonic acid Central clay color crop cultivation decay depth disease drains Early Harvest Early York earth East Fall Pippin fertility Flemish Beauty foliage Glout Morceau Golden Russet grafting green manure growth heat Hubbardston HUNDRED TREES hybrid Illinois inches Indiana injurious insects Lady Apple land larvae leaf limbs lime Louise bonne Michigan Moist moisture Newtown Pippin North Ohio orchard oxygen peach pear Penn plants ploughed pollen pollen-tube produce pulverization QUINCE R. I. Greening Red Astrachan Rhode Island roots Roxbury Russet Saginaw Bay sand scion season Seckel seed Seedling shoots soil South of Saginaw species spring subsoil substances summer surface Sweet temperature three feet tion VARIETIES OF FRUIT VARIETIES OF PEARS Vicar of Winkfield vine Winkfield wood
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Page 415 - The seed-coats are generated wholly by the female parent, and these regulate the bulk of the lobes and plantule : and I have observed, in raising new varieties of the Peach, that when one stone contained two seeds, the plants these afforded were inferior to others. The largest seeds, obtained from the finest fruit, and from that which ripens most perfectly and most early, should always be selected. It is scarcely necessary to inform the experienced gardener, that it will be necessary to extract the...
Page 343 - ... dung and the mould from an old hotbed, equal parts, will answer exceedingly well; the surface should then be covered with some half-rotted dung, and the roots left till the following autumn brings its annual care. It may be found that after a few years of root-pruning, the circumferential mass of fibres will have become too much...
Page 55 - The feldspar, which is as it were the cement of the stone, forms a fine clay: the mica partially decomposed mixes with it as sand; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of a rock, the seeds of lichens, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables which are constantly floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their...
Page 398 - I did not pretend to be able to develope, but undoubtedly depending upon certain affinities either of structure or constitution, there was a greater disposition to fertility in some than in others. Subsequent experiments have confirmed this view to such a degree as to make it almost certain that the fertility of the hybrid or mixed offspring depends more upon the constitutional than the closer botanical affinities of the parents.
Page 385 - Nile, each would adapt its habits to the climate in which it were placed ; and if both were subsequently brought, in early spring, into a climate similar to that of Italy, the plant which had adapted its habits to a cold climate would instantly vegetate, whilst the other would remain perfectly torpid.
Page 418 - The bark of the root now begins to execute its office of depositing alburnous or woody matter ; and as soon as this is formed, the sap, which had hitherto descended only through the cortical vessels, begins to ascend, through the alburnum. The plumule in consequence elongates, its leaves enlarge and unfold, and a set of vessels, which did not exist in the root, are now brought into ad ion.
Page 54 - ... decomposes, and likewise the mica, but the first the most rapidly. The feldspar, which is as it were the cement of the stone, forms a fine clay ; the mica partially decomposed...
Page 385 - If two plants of the vine or other tree of similar habits, or even if obtained from cuttings of the same tree, were placed to vegetate, during several successive seasons, in very different climates; if the one were planted on the banks of the Rhine, and the other on those of the Nile, each would adapt its habits to the climate in which it...
Page 415 - New varieties of every species of fruit will generally be better obtained by introducing the farina of one variety of fruit into the blossom of another, than by propagating from any single kind. When an experiment of this kind is made between varieties of different size and character, the farina of the smaller kind should be introduced into the blossoms of the larger...
Page 416 - In these organs, but principally in the cotyledons, is deposited as much of the concrete sap of the parent plant as is sufficient to feed its offspring, till that has attached itself to the soil, and become capable of absorbing and assimilating new matter. The plumule differs from the...