The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial Horticulture, Covering the Practical and Scientific Phases of Horticulture, with Special Reference to Fruits and Vegetables, Volumen4Granville Lowther, William Worthington Encyclopedia of horticulture corporation, 1914 |
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Página 1567 - LO Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, and...
Página 1868 - Place oil, resin and a gallon of water in an iron kettle and heat until resin is softened ; add lye solution made as for hard soap; stir thoroughly ; add remainder of water and boil about two hours, or until the mixture will unite with cold water making a clear, amber-colored liquid. If the mixture has boiled away too much, add sufficient boiling water to make 5 gallons.
Página 1952 - The manure should be evenly distributed, and it is advisable to run a cultivator once or twice in the furrow to mix the manure with the , soil. Too much manure in one spot under the hill will produce a large growth of vine at the expense of the potatoes. Toward the northern part of the area over which sweet potatoes are grown, it is necessary to start the plants in a hotbed in order that the length of season may be sufficient to mature the crop. The roots that are too small for marketing are used...
Página 1577 - Red varieties are planted in rows from 28 to 36 inches apart and 7 to 9 inches apart in the rows according to the fertility of the soil. On rich soils, where the spread of vine will be great, the maximum distance between rows as well as between plants in the row should be allowed.
Página 1977 - The cedema of the tomato is a swelling of certain parts of the plant brought about by an excess of water which stretches the cell walls, making them very thin and the cells very large. The excess of water may be so great that the cell walls break down, and that part of the plant dying, exerts an injurious influence in adjacent parts.
Página 1813 - ... in the house. Cabbage Cooked With Pork For a small head of cabbage use about half a pound of mixed salt pork. Boil the pork gently for three or four hours. Prepare the cabbage as for plain boiled cabbage. Drain well and put on to boil with the pork. Boil rapidly for 25 to 45 minutes. Serve the pork with the cabbage. The vegetable may require a little more salt. Smoked bacon or ham may be substituted for the pork. Cabbage may be cooked in water in which corned beef was boiled.
Página 1808 - Crush the berries with a wooden vegetable masher and spread a square of cheesecloth over a bowl and turn the crushed berries and juice into it. Press out the juice and turn it into the preserving kettle. Add two quarts of honey and put it on the stove.
Página 2023 - The acreage devoted to these products was not ascertained. In comparing one year with the other the number of trees or vines of bearing age is on the whole a better index of the general changes or tendencies than the quantity of product, but the data for the censuses of 1910 and 1900 are not closely comparable and the product is therefore compared, although variations may be due largely to temporarily favorable or unfavorable climatic conditions. 1 Expressed in bushels for orchard fruits and pounds...
Página 1574 - From five to seven inches of loose soil will be sufficient for the growing of all varieties of peanuts. Subsoiling may prove beneficial on soils having insufficient drainage. Preparation for Planting When the land is plowed but a short time before planting it should be harrowed within a few hours after plowing, in order to prevent loss of moisture. On loose, sandy soils that are reasonably free from weeds or grass it is often possible 1574 1575 to dispense with the regular plowing and cut the land...
Página 2016 - ... are prominent, especially those laterad of the second and third lobes ; the fourth spines are a little nearer the first lobes than the penultimate segment ; and the fifth are near the penultimate segment; there is also a spine at or near the union of the last two segments. Scale of male. — The scale of the male resembles that of the female in color: it is elongated, with the larval skin near the anterior end; this skin...