Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
This little treatise is intended as an inducement to young Gardeners especially, to seek for the reasons on which the operations of their daily practice are founded, and by which they are regulated. This announcement is here made, in order to prevent any reader from supposing...
Light is most essential to the perfect and healthy developement of vegetable organization, the performance of the functions essential to the health of plants being dependent on...
2. Part 2A reference to the sketch, will at once shew the general nature of the internal arrangements. There should be a tank (_d_) supported by brick piers (_p_) in which a circulation...
4. Part 4When a moist atmosphere is duly and regularly maintained, there is but little fear need be entertained of the establishment of a colony of insects--such as the thrip, and the re...
1. Part 1This little treatise is intended as an inducement to young Gardeners especially, to seek for the reasons on which the operations of their daily practice are founded, and by whic...
5. Part 5The soil in which the Melon delights to grow, is one of a more compact texture than is usually regarded as applicable for the Cucumber: a suitable compost consists of the "top s...
6. Part 6In the diagram at p. 18, and the description of it at p. 20, I have indicated and recommended a plan of moistening the soil by pouring water down beneath the soil: this was to b...