Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters and Live Fences: A Treatise on the Planting, Growth and Management of Hedge Plants for Country and Suburban HomesOrange Judd, 1908 - 139 páginas |
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... crop during the previous year . The rotted turf will then make excellent soil for hedge planting . Before setting , let the soil be thrown , by back furrowing or by the spade , toward the center , enough to form a slight rise , that ...
... crop during the previous year . The rotted turf will then make excellent soil for hedge planting . Before setting , let the soil be thrown , by back furrowing or by the spade , toward the center , enough to form a slight rise , that ...
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... crops . However , when economy of time is very greatly desired , the trimming of the first three or four years can be per- formed with a sickle . Give a quick motion in the way the branch grows - that is , with a slant upward . Hold the ...
... crops . However , when economy of time is very greatly desired , the trimming of the first three or four years can be per- formed with a sickle . Give a quick motion in the way the branch grows - that is , with a slant upward . Hold the ...
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... cropping power is astonish- ing . After the pears are gone , and in the later sea- son , the leaves become a brilliant crimson . Of all lawn trees there are only two or three equal to the Buffum pear in autumn coloring , and I do not ...
... cropping power is astonish- ing . After the pears are gone , and in the later sea- son , the leaves become a brilliant crimson . Of all lawn trees there are only two or three equal to the Buffum pear in autumn coloring , and I do not ...
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... cropping . The main point to be looked after , in planting apple tree shel- ters , is to select varieties with tough enduring wood . Other varieties , like the Baldwin and the Poun Sweet , will soon give way under the loads of fruit ...
... cropping . The main point to be looked after , in planting apple tree shel- ters , is to select varieties with tough enduring wood . Other varieties , like the Baldwin and the Poun Sweet , will soon give way under the loads of fruit ...
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... crop of apples these branches will droop to the sod . Remember that such a row of trees must have room . It must not be used as a close hedge , for then its beauty as well as its utility will be sacrificed . If you know of anything more ...
... crop of apples these branches will droop to the sod . Remember that such a row of trees must have room . It must not be used as a close hedge , for then its beauty as well as its utility will be sacrificed . If you know of anything more ...
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Página 123 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Página 91 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 121 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Página 122 - Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running. If the sequestered coolness of the wood tempt us to saunter into its checkered shade, we are saluted by the murmurous din of insects, the twitter of birds, the scrambling of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen beasts, all telling how populous is this seeming solitude. If we pause before a tree, or shrub, or plant, our cursory and half-abstracted glance detects a colony of various inhabitants.