An Encyclopaedia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening (Classic Reprint)
An Encyclopaedia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening (Classic Reprint)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...on this mark I place the onions, ten inches apart; I then cover them with leaf-mould, rotten dung, or any other light compost, just so that the crowns appear exposed. Nothing more is necessary to be done until they shoot up their tops; then, on a dry day, they are earthed up, like potatoes, and kept ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...on this mark I place the onions, ten inches apart; I then cover them with leaf-mould, rotten dung, or any other light compost, just so that the crowns appear exposed. Nothing more is necessary to be done until they shoot up their tops; then, on a dry day, they are earthed up, like potatoes, and kept free from weeds uptil they are taken up. In the west of England, where this kind of onion is much cultivated, I understand that it is the practice to plant on the shortest day, and take up on the longest. The smallest onions used for planting swell, and become very fine and large, as well as yield offsets; the middle-sized and larger bulbs produce greater clusters." Hort. Tram. iii. SOS.) 3828. Dymond states (Hort. Trans, iii. 306.), that in Devonshire it is planted in rows twelve inches apart, and six inches' distance in the row; that the plants are earthed up as they grow, and that the smaller bulbs yield a greater increase than the larger. A similar practice is adopted by some Scotch cultivators. (Caled. Hort. Mem. i. 343. and iv. 216.) 3829. Wedgewood does not earth up, and finds his bulbs acquire a much larger size than when that practice is adopted. Hort. Trans, iii. 403.) The fact is, as we have observed in generalising on the subject of earthing up (8233.), surface-bulbs, as the onion, turnip, Ate, are always prevented from attaining their full size by that operation, whatever they may gain in other respects. SumsiCT. 2. Leek.--Allium jmrrum, L. (Dlackw. t. 421.) Heian. Monog. L. and Aiplioddea, B. P. Poireau, Fr.; Lauch, Ger.; and Poro, Ital. 3830. The leek is a hardy biennial, a native of Switzerland, and introduced in 1562. The stem rises three feet, and is leafy at bottom, the leaves an inch wide. The flowers appear in May, in...
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Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans
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1834
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Good. No Jacket. 6 x 8 1/2. 1272 page hardcover with illustrations. Title continuation: "including all the latest improvements: A General History of Gardening in all Countries; and a Statistical View of its present state; with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Illustrated with Many Hundred Engravings on Wood, by Branston. A New Edition considerably Improved and Enlarged." Black calf spine and corners and marbled boards woth title on spine in gold. Spine edges are liighty scuffed and lightly worn-but solid and good condition. Interior has a gift presentation in pencil on front inside cover (dated 1875), and a few pages (3 or 4)inside have light pencil margin lines of underlining-otherwise unmarked, tight and clean. Preface dated 1834, so a 4th or 5th Edition of the 1822 (? ) orignal.
