The English gardener1860 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
annual plant apples apricot April asparagus auriculas autumn beans bear beautiful biennial plant blossoms blows a white blows a yellow borders bottom branches broccoli bulbs cabbages cauliflowers celery colour covered crop cucumbers cultivated cuttings planted drills dung early earth endive England espalier flower in June foot four feet frame frost fruit garden grafting green green-house grow hand-glass hardy perennial hardy shrub heat hedge height hot-bed inches inches high keep latter layers leaves lettuces list of fruits manner melons month mould nectarines offsets onions pagated paragus pears peas perennial plant pots pretty Propagated by seed Propagated by sowing pruning purple radishes ripe rows scion shoots shrubberies side six inches soil sorts sowing the seed sown spring stalk stem suckers summer thing transplant tree trench turnip vines wall weather weeds white flower winter wood yellow flower
Pasajes populares
Página 10 - ... fine gardens as any man in England, I have never seen a garden equal to that of WAVERLEY. Ten families, large as they might be, including troops of servants (who are no churls in this way), could not have consumed the fruit produced in that garden. The peaches, nectarines, apricots, fine plums,l!fever failed ; and, if the workmen had not lent a hand, a fourth part of the produce never could have been got rid of.
Página 10 - It was the spot where I first began to learn to work, or, rather, where I first began to eat fine fruit, in a garden ; and though I have now seen and observed upon as many fine gardens as any man in England, I have never seen a garden equal to that of WAvERLEY.
Página 182 - Bring the four edges of bark, that is, the two edges of the cut in the top of the stock, and the two corresponding edges of the cut in the bottom of the scion, to meet precisely; or, if the scion be in diameter a smaller piece of wood than the stock, so that its two edges of bark cannot both meet those of the stock, then let only one meet, but be sure that that one meets precisely.
Página 5 - ... and there set on fire ; saying, " In all these books I find no principles ; they can, therefore, be of no use to any man; he must get principles for himself, or he must go on till the elements have instructed him ; and, in either case, he can stand in no need of books like these.
Página 63 - The weather for transplanting is the same as that for sowing. If you do this work in wet weather, or when the ground is wet, the work cannot be well done. It is no matter what the plant is, whether it be a cucumber plant, or an oak-tree. It has been observed, as to seeds, that they like the earth to touch them in every part, and to lie close about them. It is the same with roots.
Página 35 - ... boards, or any thing else, however solid. The edging ought to be clipped in the winter, or very early in the spring, on both the sides and at top ; a line ought to be used to regulate the movements of the shears ; it ought to be clipped again in the same manner, just about Midsummer; and, if there be a more neat and beautiful thing than this in the world, all that I can say is that I never saw that thing.
Página 175 - ... distance, make them from two to three inches deep, put in the seeds pretty thickly, cover them completely, tread the earth down upon them ; and then smooth the surface. When the plants come up, thin them to about three inches apart ; and keep the ground between them perfectly clean during the summer. Hoe frequently ; but not deep near the plants ; for, we are speaking of trees here ; and trees do not renew their roots quickly as a cabbage or a turnip does. These young trees should be kept, during...
Página 42 - ... at the bottom. Then you go on shaking the dung into this sort of box, dividing straw from straw, and mixing long and short duly together, in the same manner as was before directed in the case of the conical heaps, and taking care to keep beating the dung down with the prong in every part of the bed. When you have shaken on dung to the thickness of four or five inches, beat all over again, and so on at every four or five inches deep, until the work be finished. When you get to the top of the boards,...
Página 115 - ... hand, and the plants and earth will come clean out of the pot in a connected ball, which with both hands you are to deposit in the hole which you have made in the heap in the centre of the light. When you have thus deposited it, draw the earth of the heap well up about the ball, and press it a little with your fingers, taking care of two things, first, that the hole be sufficiently deep to admit the ball down into...
Página 58 - The first thing, relating to sowing, is, the preparation of the ground. It may be more or less fine according to the sort of seed to be sown. Peas and beans do not, of course, require the earth so fine as small seeds do. But, still, the finer the better for every thing ; for, it is best if the seed be...