The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture, Volumen3

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L. Tucker, 1846
 

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Página 27 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Página 34 - With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict : for from the bellowing east, In this dire season, oft...
Página 39 - Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. With remarks on rural architecture.
Página 234 - ... the property of being absorbed by the roots of the plants. The duration of the fertility of a field depends on the amount of the mineral aliments of plants contained in it; and its productive power for a given time is in a direct proportion to that part of its composition which possesses the capacity of being taken up by the plant.
Página 126 - ... noted for their fertility ; still practical agriculture has hitherto derived very slender benefits from labors of this kind. The reason of this is very simple ; the qualities which we esteem in a workable soil depend almost exclusively upon the mechanical mixture of its elements ; we are much less interested in its chemical composition than in this ; so that simple washing, which shows the relations between the sand and the clay, tells, of itself, much more that is important to us than an elaborate...
Página 136 - THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF AMERICA, Or, the Culture, Propagation, and Management in the Garden and Orchard of Fruit Trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated In this country.
Página 145 - This fertility is owing to the alkalies which are contained in the lava, and which by exposure to the weather are rendered capable of being absorbed by plants.
Página 39 - The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: or, the Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees generally ; with Descriptions of all the finest Varieties of Fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this Country.
Página 27 - But this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Página 34 - Pour every lustre on th' exalted eye. A friend, a book the stealing hours secure, And mark them down for wisdom. With swift wing, O'er land and sea imagination roams...

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