Practical and Scientific Fruit CultureLee and Shepard, 1866 - 523 pages |
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... earth Manner of operation season - ― - The Results of it : rapid absorption of moisture - Free admis- sion of the air - The mixture of earths- The destruction of insects - The increase of heat 126 CHAPTER VI . FERTILIZATION . Selective ...
... earth Manner of operation season - ― - The Results of it : rapid absorption of moisture - Free admis- sion of the air - The mixture of earths- The destruction of insects - The increase of heat 126 CHAPTER VI . FERTILIZATION . Selective ...
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... earth . As we ascend a mountain the effect is reversely the same . Hence it becomes evident that to determine properly the limit for the cultivation of a plant , it would be useless to draw parallel lines , like those which we use for ...
... earth . As we ascend a mountain the effect is reversely the same . Hence it becomes evident that to determine properly the limit for the cultivation of a plant , it would be useless to draw parallel lines , like those which we use for ...
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... earth . The amount of moisture , or water , which the at- mosphere is capable of containing , to become fully charged , varies with the degree of temperature . If it is eighty degrees Fahrenheit , it will contain ten grains to the cubic ...
... earth . The amount of moisture , or water , which the at- mosphere is capable of containing , to become fully charged , varies with the degree of temperature . If it is eighty degrees Fahrenheit , it will contain ten grains to the cubic ...
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... earth . Murray , of England , proved that this was very dif- ferent on the side of a hill from what it was in the valley . In one case the thermometer was thirty de- grees higher on the inclined surface than in the plain . He states ...
... earth . Murray , of England , proved that this was very dif- ferent on the side of a hill from what it was in the valley . In one case the thermometer was thirty de- grees higher on the inclined surface than in the plain . He states ...
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... earth presents a great diversity of soils , upon which widely different kinds of plants flourish , each adapted to some peculiar genus , species , or variety of plant in the vegetable king- dom . The failure of one orchard , while ...
... earth presents a great diversity of soils , upon which widely different kinds of plants flourish , each adapted to some peculiar genus , species , or variety of plant in the vegetable king- dom . The failure of one orchard , while ...
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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 East cane carbonic acid Central clay color crop cultivation decay depth disease drains Early Harvest Early York earth 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 result Rhode Island roots Roxbury Russet Saginaw Bay sand scion season Seckel seed Seedling shoots soil South of Saginaw species spring subsoil substances summer surface temperature three feet tion VARIETIES OF FRUIT VARIETIES OF PEARS Vicar of Winkfield vine West Winkfield wood