The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volumen17Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841 |
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Página 419 - ... constantly applied to for plans for laying out the grounds of country seats, by persons in various parts of the Union, as well as in the immediate proximity of New York. In many cases he not only surveyed the demesne to be improved, but furnished the plants and trees necessary to carry out his designs. Several plans were prepared by him for residences of note in the Southern States ; and two or three places in Upper Canada, especially near Montreal, were, we believe, laid out by his own hands...
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Página 101 - The experiments of De Saussure have proved that the upper strata of the air contain more carbonic acid than the lower, which are in contact with plants ; and that the quantity is greater by night than by day, when it undergoes decomposition. Plants thus improve the air, by the removal of carbonic acid, and by the renewal of oxygen, which is immediately applied to the use of man and animals.
Página 476 - The process of burning renders the soil less compact, less tenacious and retentive of moisture ; and when properly applied, may convert a matter that was stiff, damp, and in consequence cold, into one powdery, dry, and warm ; and much more proper as a bed for vegetable life.
Página 130 - ... add to an acre of land, in order to obtain, with the assistance of the nitrogen absorbed from the atmosphere, the richest crops every year. By adopting a system of rotation of crops, every town and farm might thus supply itself with the manure, which, besides containing the most nitrogen, contains also the most phosphates. By using, at the same time, bones and the lixiviated ashes of wood, animal excrements might be completely dispensed with on many kinds of soil.
Página 373 - ... and it is to this fact, first noticed by the author, that he wishes more particularly to direct the attention of the Society, as affording a decisive proof of the correctness of the views he entertains, being in accordance with the theory of Dr. Wells. He finds that after sunset, in all seasons of the year, and at all mean temperatures of the air, and whether or not the ground be covered with snow, whenever the sky is clear, although there may be a dead calm at the bottoms of the valleys, currents...
Página 376 - I think I have not mentioned that the light generally used in this part of the country, even in the large town of Kootaya and the other towns through which I have passed, is a chip of the fir-tree. The people make a wound in the tree, which draws the sap to that part, and the tree is then cut for fire-wood, reserving this portion filled with turpentine for candles. I was surprised to find how long they burned ; during a meal a piece is placed between two stones, and it burns with a large flame and...
Página 473 - Glasgow practises a mode of destroying caterpillars, which he discovered by accident. A piece of woollen rag had been blown by the wind into a currant-bush, and when taken out was found covered by these leaf-devouring insects. He immediately placed pieces of woollen cloth in every bush in his garden, and found next day that the caterpillars had universally taken to them for shelter.