Practical forestry: A treatise on the propagation, planting, and cultivation, with a description, and the botanical and popular names of all the indigenous trees of the United States ... |
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Página 268 - Leaves, one or two in a sheath, from one and a half to two and a half inches long, when in pairs, flat on the inner side, single ones round, very rigid, and sharp-pointed.
Página 302 - ... the student. Taken all in all. it is the most complete, reliable and authoritative book on the potato ever published in America. Illustrated. 200 pages. 5x7 inches. Cloth $0.75 Dwarf Fruit Trees By FA WAUGH. This interesting book describes in detail the several varieties of dwarf fruit trees, their propagation, planting, pruning, care and general management. Where there is a limited amount of ground to be devoted to orchard purposes, and where quick results are desired, this book will meet with...
Página 301 - The Book of Alfalfa History, Cultivation and Merits. Its Uses as a Forage and Fertilizer. The appearance of the Hon. FD COBURN'S little book on Alfalfa a few years ago has been a profit revelation to thousands of farmers throughout the country, and the increasing demand for still more information on the subject has induced the author to prepare the present volume, which is by far the most authoritative, complete and valuable work on this forage crop published anywhere.
Página 303 - The New Rhubarb Culture A complete guide to dark forcing and field culture. Part I — By JE MORSE, the well-known Michigan trucker and originator of the now famous and extremely profitable new methods of dark forcing and field culture. Part II— Compiled by GB FISKE. Other methods practiced by the most experienced market gardeners, greenhouse men and experimenters in all parts of America. Illustrated. 130 pages.
Página 281 - Siebold and Zuccarini. — Umbrella Pine. A very curious and remarkable conifer, from Mount Kojasan, in the Island of Nippon, Japan, where it forms a large spreading tree, a hundred feet high. Introduced into England in 1861, and a few years later into this country. The leaves are from three to four inches long, and about one-eighth broad, double-ribbed, leathery, and blunt-pointed ; dark-green, and crowded in whorls of thirty to forty at the joints or nodes of the branchlets. Cones about three inches...
Página 101 - This sprouting appears to be a natural characteristic of the tree, and when the roots are disturbed, broken, or otherwise injured in working the soil, the habit is intensified many fold. From whence came the disagreeable odor, or from which sex of the flowers, has been a subject that has provoked much discussion ; but it is usually credited to the staminate flowers borne on trees distinct and separate from those producing pistillate, and this has led some nurserymen to seek this sex from which to...
Página 197 - Sylva," and later published in this country, will long remain a monument to the industry and scientific attainments of the authors, but recent discoveries, especially in the Rocky Mountain regions and westward, has not only added many new species of the oak, but has also made it necessary to revise some of the earlier classifications of the members of this genus. The late Dr. George Engelmann, of St. Louis, Mo., a most capable botanist, devoted much time to the study of the oaks, and published an...
Página 304 - Department of Agriculture HIS is a new, practical, and complete presentation of the whole subject of agriculture in its broadest sense. It is designed for the use of agriculturists who desire up-to-date, reliable information on all matters pertaining to crops and stock, but more particularly for the actual farmer. The volume contains Detailed directions for the culture of every important field, orchard, and garden crop grown in America, together with descriptions of their chief insect pests and fungous...
Página 301 - By THOMAS F. HUNT, MS, D.Agri., Professor of Agronomy, Cornell University. If you raise five acres of any kind of grain you cannot afford to be without this book. It is in every way the best book on the subject that has ever been written. It treats of the cultivation and improvement of every grain crop raised in America in a thoroughly practical and accurate manner. The subject-matter includes a comprehensive and succinct treatise of wheat, maize, oats, barley, rye, rice, sorghum (kafir corn) and...
Página 300 - WILLIAM BURKETT, Director Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. The most complete and popular work of the kind ever published. As a rule, a book of this sort is dry and uninteresting, but in this case it reads like a novel. The author has put into it his individuality. The story of the properties of the soils, their improvement and management, as well as a discussion of the problems of crop growing and crop feeding, make this book equally valuable to the farmer, student and teacher. Illustrated....