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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... inches high , were rapidly prepared with plows , and the plants found the soil thus thrown up in admirable condition to be filled with fibrous roots . As soon as the hedge became strong enough to serve as a fence and turn cattle , root ...
... inches high , were rapidly prepared with plows , and the plants found the soil thus thrown up in admirable condition to be filled with fibrous roots . As soon as the hedge became strong enough to serve as a fence and turn cattle , root ...
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... immediate use , set your plants from twelve to fifteen inches apart , and in a single row . But if the object of the fence is to turn animals , and the desire is to have a long - lived and perfect fence , set your plants LIVE FENCES . 5.
... immediate use , set your plants from twelve to fifteen inches apart , and in a single row . But if the object of the fence is to turn animals , and the desire is to have a long - lived and perfect fence , set your plants LIVE FENCES . 5.
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... inches from the ground at the first pruning , during the first summer they should be cut back so as to increase the hight not to exceed two inches . There will always be a tendency to throw up a few very strong stems , and these will ...
... inches from the ground at the first pruning , during the first summer they should be cut back so as to increase the hight not to exceed two inches . There will always be a tendency to throw up a few very strong stems , and these will ...
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... inches wide and one foot deep . The earth is laid on the side of the trench and the bottom broken with a pick . In ... inches apart ; if in one row , nine inches apart . The latter , I am inclined to think from experience , is the best ...
... inches wide and one foot deep . The earth is laid on the side of the trench and the bottom broken with a pick . In ... inches apart ; if in one row , nine inches apart . The latter , I am inclined to think from experience , is the best ...
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... inches from the ground , or the stems thus lying laterally along the ground . The leaf buds sent up shoots similar to those of the first year , but thicker and higher ; many grew eight feet . The ground was cultivated with a hoe and ...
... inches from the ground , or the stems thus lying laterally along the ground . The leaf buds sent up shoots similar to those of the first year , but thicker and higher ; many grew eight feet . The ground was cultivated with a hoe and ...
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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.