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. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... and entirely free from trees, which are very inimical to them, especially to those which have to stand the winter. If the soil be poor, or exhausted, abundance of dung should be applied in the preceding autumn or winter, and the ground thrown into ridges. By these means it becomes well decomposed and ...
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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. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... and entirely free from trees, which are very inimical to them, especially to those which have to stand the winter. If the soil be poor, or exhausted, abundance of dung should be applied in the preceding autumn or winter, and the ground thrown into ridges. By these means it becomes well decomposed and incorporated with the soil; for rank unreduced dung is generally injurious, engendering decay, and inducing maggots; if therefore the application of manure is neglected until the spring, it should be taken from an old hotbed, or other source whence it is to be had in a thoroughly putrescent state, and turned in only to a moderate depth. Sea sand, particularly if the ground is at all tenacious, is advantageously eroplo) ed: coal ashes, and especially soot, are applied with particular benefit. In digging over the ground small spits only should be turned over at a time, that the texture may be well broken and pulverised. A considerable degree of attention is required from the difficulty of giving the requisite degree of firmness to light soils, which if rich are well suited to the growth of these vegetables, without carrying it to excess. Old, soft, or light sandy soils, Mr. A. Gorrie, of Rait, recommends to be dug rough in October, and about January to have a top dressing of cow-dung applied and left on, to have its fertilising matters washed in until the time of sowing, when as much as can be is to be raked off, and, without digging, the seed sown, trod in, and covered with earth from the alleys. By this management soils will produce good crops which before were annually destroyed by the maggot *. Onions for pickling, as well as those to stand the winter, should be grown on light poorer soils, which cause the first to be small in the bulb, ..
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