Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1883 - 270 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 90
Página 12
... plant life ; but undrained land is not merely wet , it becomes water - logged , and through absence of air , the plants are drowned out . When , however , water passes through , and away from the land , air takes its place , and also ...
... plant life ; but undrained land is not merely wet , it becomes water - logged , and through absence of air , the plants are drowned out . When , however , water passes through , and away from the land , air takes its place , and also ...
Página 14
... plants by the cultivator . The ground may be too wet , but never too dry , for stirring ; because the more ... plant ; it increases the capillary attraction of the soil , by which its humidity is rendered more uni- form ; by presenting a ...
... plants by the cultivator . The ground may be too wet , but never too dry , for stirring ; because the more ... plant ; it increases the capillary attraction of the soil , by which its humidity is rendered more uni- form ; by presenting a ...
Página 15
... plants are grown in a crowded state , darkness and want of air elongate the stems and leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection ...
... plants are grown in a crowded state , darkness and want of air elongate the stems and leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection ...
Página 17
... plants , as well as the composition of soils . If chemical forces were the only forces of nature concerned in the growth of plants , then by supplying the soil with exactly the constituents in definite quantities , which chemical ...
... plants , as well as the composition of soils . If chemical forces were the only forces of nature concerned in the growth of plants , then by supplying the soil with exactly the constituents in definite quantities , which chemical ...
Página 18
... plants of a higher organization , successive generations pre- paring for those which followed them . Thus organic constituents accumulated , until , in time , every arable soil contained in varying proportions every element of plant ...
... plants of a higher organization , successive generations pre- paring for those which followed them . Thus organic constituents accumulated , until , in time , every arable soil contained in varying proportions every element of plant ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acid Phosphate acre ammonia applied asparagus barrel beetles Bone Bruchus bushels cabbage carbonic acid cauliflower cents Charleston Chemical Chuck-will's-widow cold frames commence compost contain cotton seed covered cow pea crate crop cucumber cultivation cut-worms destroyed 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 Plusia potash potato pounds produce quantity rain roots rows salts sandy Savannah season 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