Practical and Scientific Fruit CultureLee and Shepard, 1866 - 523 pages |
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... Oxygen , hy- drogen , carbon , nitrogen - Inorganic substances - Manures adapted to different soils : to clays , to peaty soils , to sandy lands - Plants to be used in green - manuring- Application of manures . - • 164 20 CONTENTS ...
... Oxygen , hy- drogen , carbon , nitrogen - Inorganic substances - Manures adapted to different soils : to clays , to peaty soils , to sandy lands - Plants to be used in green - manuring- Application of manures . - • 164 20 CONTENTS ...
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... oxygen , but aqueous vapor , which affects plants powerfully . The first three constituents form the primary elements of the bodies of both animals and plants ; these , by their death and decay , restore the gases to their original ...
... oxygen , but aqueous vapor , which affects plants powerfully . The first three constituents form the primary elements of the bodies of both animals and plants ; these , by their death and decay , restore the gases to their original ...
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... oxygen , while they store up the carbon . In the night this function ceases : the oxygen is slowly absorbed , and carbonic acid evolved . Therefore , in the morning the plant must first re- place the carbon which was lost during the ...
... oxygen , while they store up the carbon . In the night this function ceases : the oxygen is slowly absorbed , and carbonic acid evolved . Therefore , in the morning the plant must first re- place the carbon which was lost during the ...
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... oxygen from the atmosphere , is able to furnish the plant with carbonic acid , which is thus produced , and also with oxygen . While there are soils which are unfertile from want of humus , yet this element , which exists in such vast ...
... oxygen from the atmosphere , is able to furnish the plant with carbonic acid , which is thus produced , and also with oxygen . While there are soils which are unfertile from want of humus , yet this element , which exists in such vast ...
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... and the oxide of iron , which is generally in its least oxidized state , tends to combine with more oxygen . The conse- quence is that the felspar decomposes , and also the MECHANICAL CAUSES . 55 mica ; the first the most.
... and the oxide of iron , which is generally in its least oxidized state , tends to combine with more oxygen . The conse- quence is that the felspar decomposes , and also the MECHANICAL CAUSES . 55 mica ; the first the most.
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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