A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-trees, in which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described: To which is Added a New and Improved Edition of "Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries in All Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees"; with an Account of a Particular Method of CureE. Sargeant, 1802 - 371 pages |
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... frequently kills them , This may , no doubt , happen when they are improperly headed- down all at once , by giving a fudden check to the fap , the few weak fhoots not having ftrength to draw up what is fupplied by the roots ; and ...
... frequently kills them , This may , no doubt , happen when they are improperly headed- down all at once , by giving a fudden check to the fap , the few weak fhoots not having ftrength to draw up what is fupplied by the roots ; and ...
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... bottom . It is a frequent practice with fome gardeners , to head down the trees at the time of planting ; which very often proves fatal to them . Of Of old and decayed Trees . It has been the TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND.
... bottom . It is a frequent practice with fome gardeners , to head down the trees at the time of planting ; which very often proves fatal to them . Of Of old and decayed Trees . It has been the TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND.
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... frequently , when large branches have been cut off in a careless manner , and the wounds left to nature , the whole tree is infected with the gum and canker ; which , if not checked , will in a short time totally ruin it . The best ...
... frequently , when large branches have been cut off in a careless manner , and the wounds left to nature , the whole tree is infected with the gum and canker ; which , if not checked , will in a short time totally ruin it . The best ...
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... frequently expofing the trees to the cutting winds , does more harm than good . Another practice is , to cover with branches of fpruce - fir and yew ; but thefe , being too clofe , encourage a blight , and cause the leaves of the trees ...
... frequently expofing the trees to the cutting winds , does more harm than good . Another practice is , to cover with branches of fpruce - fir and yew ; but thefe , being too clofe , encourage a blight , and cause the leaves of the trees ...
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... frequently preferred ; but I would by no means recommend planting more than three trees of each fort in a garden , as standards ; as it is not one year in ten that a tolerable crop is produced from them . The Breda , the Brussels , and ...
... frequently preferred ; but I would by no means recommend planting more than three trees of each fort in a garden , as standards ; as it is not one year in ten that a tolerable crop is produced from them . The Breda , the Brussels , and ...
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Page i - Observations on the diseases, defects, and injuries in all kinds of fruit and forest trees. " with an account of a particular method of cure.
Page 321 - ... and a sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or river sand : the three last articles are to be sifted fine before they are mixed ; then work them well together with a spade, and afterwards with a wooden beater, until the stuff is very smooth, like fine plaster used for ceilings of rooms.
Page 324 - Composition is found, by experience, to be in a liquid state ; it must, therefore, be reduced to the consistence of a pretty thick paint, by mixing it up with a sufficient quantity of urine and soap-suds, and laid on with a painter's brush. The powder of woodashes and burnt bones is to be applied as before directed, patting it down with the hand.
Page 322 - ... mixed with a sixth part of the same quantity of the ashes of burnt bones ; put it into a tin box, with holes in the top, and shake the powder on the surface of the plaster, till the whole is covered over with it, letting it remain for half an hour, to absorb the moisture ; then apply more powder, rubbing it on gently with the hand, and repeating the application of the powder till the whole plaster becomes a dry smooth surface.
Page 321 - The composition being thus made, care must be taken to prepare the tree properly for its application, by cutting away all the dead, decayed, and injured part, till you come to the...
Page 324 - ... and endanger its being blown down by the wind. It will, therefore, be necessary to leave part of the dead wood, at first, to strengthen the tree, and to cut it out by degrees as the new wood is formed. If there be any canker, or gum oozing, the infected parts...
Page 324 - Composition ; and, as the edges grow, take care not to let the new wood come in contact with the dead, part of which it may be sometimes necessary to leave ; but cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping a hollow between them, to allow the new wood room to extend itself, and thereby fill up the cavity, which it will do in time, so as to make as it were a new tree. If the cavity be large, you may cut away as much at one operation as will be sufficient for three years.
Page 314 - That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give Directions, that there be laid...
Page 322 - ... becomes a dry fmooth furface. All trees cut down near the ground fhould have the furface made quite fmooth, rounding it off in a fmall degree, as before mentioned ; and the dry powder directed to be ufed afterwards...
Page 148 - The market-gardeners about London plant them in rows, from eight to ten feet apart from row to row, and six feet from plant to plant, in the rows. In small gardens I would recommend planting them in a compartment by themselves, at the distance of six feet between the rows, and four feet from plant to plant ; or you may plant them round the edges of the compartments, about three feet from the path ; you will then have the ground clear for cropping, and a man, by setting one foot on the border, can...