Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden : Entirely New and Greatly EnlargedO. Judd Company, 1909 - 376 páginas |
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... ( figure 1 ) . We are particularly careful to place , after setting , a piece of sod , grass down , over the joinings of the tiles to prevent the soil from getting in and stopping up the drainage . The manner of constructing stone drains ...
... ( figure 1 ) . We are particularly careful to place , after setting , a piece of sod , grass down , over the joinings of the tiles to prevent the soil from getting in and stopping up the drainage . The manner of constructing stone drains ...
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... ( figure 2 ) , but if flat , which is much the best , they are made as represented by figure 3 ; but in either case the same . care must be exercised in covering over the top thor- oughly with sod , shavings , straw or some similar ma ...
... ( figure 2 ) , but if flat , which is much the best , they are made as represented by figure 3 ; but in either case the same . care must be exercised in covering over the top thor- oughly with sod , shavings , straw or some similar ma ...
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... figure 5. This allows the operator to have his work upright or horizontal , as may be most convenient . Two work- men will make about five mats in a day . When fin- ished , the mats should be seven feet in length and four and a half ...
... figure 5. This allows the operator to have his work upright or horizontal , as may be most convenient . Two work- men will make about five mats in a day . When fin- ished , the mats should be seven feet in length and four and a half ...
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... Figure 6 represents the end section and ground plan of the style we have in use , and which may be adapted to any plant that requires artificial heat and protection of glass . The pits repre- sented by this plan are 100 feet in length ...
... Figure 6 represents the end section and ground plan of the style we have in use , and which may be adapted to any plant that requires artificial heat and protection of glass . The pits repre- sented by this plan are 100 feet in length ...
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... figure 7 , with 150 feet of one and a half inch hose , and to the end of the hose is attached a heavy sprinkler . One man pumps , and another reg- ulates the water and sprinkles it over the plants . My establishment in 1866 contained ...
... figure 7 , with 150 feet of one and a half inch hose , and to the end of the hose is attached a heavy sprinkler . One man pumps , and another reg- ulates the water and sprinkles it over the plants . My establishment in 1866 contained ...
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