The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of All Fruits Adapted to the United StatesW. Wood, 1897 - 758 pages |
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... thick cover- ings of the chestnut , horse - chestnut , and many seeds of sim- ilar character , if left a few days exposed to the air , become so hard as to prevent it . To secure success , they must be kept moist by imbedding them in ...
... thick cover- ings of the chestnut , horse - chestnut , and many seeds of sim- ilar character , if left a few days exposed to the air , become so hard as to prevent it . To secure success , they must be kept moist by imbedding them in ...
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... thick , hard , corky substance , termed cortical layers , but while young it is the green bark of growing shoots . The inner layer of bark , next the cambium , is called the bast layer or liber , from the resemblance of the concentric ...
... thick , hard , corky substance , termed cortical layers , but while young it is the green bark of growing shoots . The inner layer of bark , next the cambium , is called the bast layer or liber , from the resemblance of the concentric ...
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... thick , crowded , half - grown leaves give small fruit with poor flavor . The great object of pruning , and of summer pruning especially , is to give plenty of good , healthy , and not crowded foliage , and the crop will also be good ...
... thick , crowded , half - grown leaves give small fruit with poor flavor . The great object of pruning , and of summer pruning especially , is to give plenty of good , healthy , and not crowded foliage , and the crop will also be good ...
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... the north , will generally succeed quite well for this purpose . The buckthorn is extremely hardy , has a thick dense growth , and is easily raised and transplanted ; but , except 54 SOIL , MANURES , SİTUATION , AND ENCLOSURES .
... the north , will generally succeed quite well for this purpose . The buckthorn is extremely hardy , has a thick dense growth , and is easily raised and transplanted ; but , except 54 SOIL , MANURES , SİTUATION , AND ENCLOSURES .
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... thick such as are least desirable may be cut out . It saves much room and gives more fruit to the acre while growing . For pyramids on apple- stocks , fifteen feet for pyramids or dwarf standards on Dou- cin stocks , ten feet ; for ...
... thick such as are least desirable may be cut out . It saves much room and gives more fruit to the acre while growing . For pyramids on apple- stocks , fifteen feet for pyramids or dwarf standards on Dou- cin stocks , ten feet ; for ...
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Page 223 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 225 - SEC. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support.
Page 226 - That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any state before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the secretary of the treasury.
Page 223 - States and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to said act, a department to be known and designated as an "agricultural experiment station " ; provided, that in any State or territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so established the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or territory shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the Legislature of such State or territory shall otherwise...
Page 225 - State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July, and October...
Page 224 - ... varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds: the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such...
Page 223 - An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 224 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Page 224 - That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important ; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 418 - ... foot-stalks, and one, two, or more on the tips or points of the serratures of the leaves. The reniform glands grow also on the footstalks of the leaves, but those on the leaves are placed within the serratures, connecting, as it were, the upper and lower teeth of the serratures together ; their leaves, when taken from a branch of a vigorous growth, have more glands than the leaves of the globose varieties. It will, however, sometimes happen that glands are not discernible on some of the leaves,...