Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, & Landscape GardeningDinsmoor, 1866 - 912 páginas |
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... season in Philadelphia or Bangor is a week earlier or later than in Boston , directions prepared for either latitude will apply to the other . It is indeed so in a measure ; but special directions are based upon special differences ...
... season in Philadelphia or Bangor is a week earlier or later than in Boston , directions prepared for either latitude will apply to the other . It is indeed so in a measure ; but special directions are based upon special differences ...
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... season . It seldom happens to Roses or Pelargoniums , as they are gross feeders . Surprising as are the effects of liquid manure , they are no more than should be expected , for the food of plants must be diluted before it can be ...
... season . It seldom happens to Roses or Pelargoniums , as they are gross feeders . Surprising as are the effects of liquid manure , they are no more than should be expected , for the food of plants must be diluted before it can be ...
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... season , have the sun's rays nearly vertical for a part of the day , and the vertical rays are the hottest . In greenhouses the order of the seasons is reversed , and the growing season is at the time when the sun's altitude is low ...
... season , have the sun's rays nearly vertical for a part of the day , and the vertical rays are the hottest . In greenhouses the order of the seasons is reversed , and the growing season is at the time when the sun's altitude is low ...
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... season , but grow and blossom most luxuriantly in winter . ff are stagings filled with plants from the greenhouse , ready to blos- som ; a succession may easily be kept up if a little care be taken ; hh are beds similar to e , but ...
... season , but grow and blossom most luxuriantly in winter . ff are stagings filled with plants from the greenhouse , ready to blos- som ; a succession may easily be kept up if a little care be taken ; hh are beds similar to e , but ...
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... season . The Dahlia will blossom every month from July to October , if forced early enough , but will give its best blossoms only as the nights grow cool and long . BEDDING PLANTS . Get up the tender greenhouse plants which are to be ...
... season . The Dahlia will blossom every month from July to October , if forced early enough , but will give its best blossoms only as the nights grow cool and long . BEDDING PLANTS . Get up the tender greenhouse plants which are to be ...
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Página 647 - s never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives...
Página 717 - The wind, when first he rose and went abroad Through the waste region, felt himself at fault, Wanting a voice ; and suddenly to earth Descended with a wafture and a swoop, Where, wandering volatile from kind to kind, He wooed the several trees to give him one. First he besought the ash; the voice she lent Fitfully with a free and lashing change Flung here and there its sad uncertainties: The aspen next ; a fluttered frivolous twitter Was her sole tribute : from the willow came, So long as dainty...
Página 647 - His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of nature which song is the best ? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay ; Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it. We are happy now because God wills it...
Página 648 - Tis the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache...
Página 647 - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green ; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell ; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing ; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
Página 647 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A-tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and ringa He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest: In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best...
Página 647 - The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace...
Página 48 - Moss ; and the result was, that on a mean of 35 observations the drained soil at 7 inches in depth was 10° warmer than the undrained at the same depth. The undrained soil' never exceeded 47°, whereas after a thunderstorm the drained reached 66°, at 7 inches, and 48° at 31 inches. Such were the effects at an early period of the year on a black bog. They suggest some idea of what they are, when in July or August thunder-rain at 60° or 70° falls on a surface heated to 130°, and carries down with...
Página 647 - Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings. He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer...
Página 118 - the cubic contents of air to be heated per minute be multiplied by the number of degrees it is to be warmed, and the result be divided by twice the difference between the temperature of the house and that of the surface of the pipes, the result will be the feet of surface of iron pipe required. " Thus, if 1000 cubic feet per minute are to be warmed, and the extreme case is supposed to be that when the external air is 20°, the house should be...