Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1910 - 274 páginas |
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... Cold Frames and Weather ... 71 .... CHAPTER VIII . Transplanting .... 82 CHAPTER IX . Water and Watering .... 87 CHAPTER X. Packing and Markets ... 90 CHAPTER XI . Insects and their Remedies .... 96 CHAPTER XII . Asparagus .. ..119 ...
... Cold Frames and Weather ... 71 .... CHAPTER VIII . Transplanting .... 82 CHAPTER IX . Water and Watering .... 87 CHAPTER X. Packing and Markets ... 90 CHAPTER XI . Insects and their Remedies .... 96 CHAPTER XII . Asparagus .. ..119 ...
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... COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . Seneca and Pliny inform us , that the Romans attempted the forcing of vegetables by means of artificial heat , using thin plates of talc or mica in lieu of glass . As a rule , the first ... Cold Frames and Weather.
... COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . Seneca and Pliny inform us , that the Romans attempted the forcing of vegetables by means of artificial heat , using thin plates of talc or mica in lieu of glass . As a rule , the first ... Cold Frames and Weather.
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... Cold frames , under proper management , not only suffice for this , but are preferable . When any animal or vegeta- ble matters undergo rapid fermentation with partial ad- mission of air and moisture , a considerable amount of heat is ...
... Cold frames , under proper management , not only suffice for this , but are preferable . When any animal or vegeta- ble matters undergo rapid fermentation with partial ad- mission of air and moisture , a considerable amount of heat is ...
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... cold outside air into a warm room . The value of dew to vegetation is manifested in such dry rain- less seasons , as those of 1880 and 1881. This moisture gathers where it is most needed , on low plants ... COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . 73.
... cold outside air into a warm room . The value of dew to vegetation is manifested in such dry rain- less seasons , as those of 1880 and 1881. This moisture gathers where it is most needed , on low plants ... COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . 73.
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... follow and a frost during the night becomes probable , if the wind * See Loudon's Encyclopædia , p . 445. Toaldo's 48 Years ' Observations . lulls before morning . No reliance can be placed upon HOT - BEDS , COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . 75.
... follow and a frost during the night becomes probable , if the wind * See Loudon's Encyclopædia , p . 445. Toaldo's 48 Years ' Observations . lulls before morning . No reliance can be placed upon HOT - BEDS , COLD FRAMES , AND WEATHER . 75.
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Acid Phosphate acre ammonia applied asparagus barrel Bone Bruchus bushels cabbage carbonic acid cauliflower cents Charleston Chuck-will's-widow Cloth cold frames commence compost contain cotton seed covered cow pea crates crop cucumber cultivation cut-worms destroy Diabrotica dollars drill dung early eggs farmer feet fermentation fertility Florida four frost fruit gardener germination green ground grow growers grown growth guano heat heavy hundred inches injury insects kainit land larva larvæ leaves lime mature melon moist moisture mulch nitrogen Northern markets onions packed Paris green pea vines Peruvian guano phosphoric acid plant food plow potash potato pounds produce quantity rain roots rows salts sandy Savannah season seed shipment soil soluble South sowing sown species sprouts squash stable manure stems strawberry sufficient sulphate superphosphate supply surface therm thousand tion tomato transplanting truck-farmer varieties vegetable matter warm weather weeds wind N. W. winter worm
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Página 169 - Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.