 Thus the potato has this great and peculiar advantage over all other substantive esculent vegetables, that it can be not only cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, but that it can be cultivated there at small expense ; while it...  British Farmer's Magazine - Page 1041873Full view - About this book
 | 1832 - 412 pages
...great and peculiar advantage over all other substantive esculent vegetables, that it can be not only cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, but that it can be cultivated there at small expense ; while it is less subject to disease, and more secure against degenerating in those... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1832 - 416 pages
...great and peculiar advantage over all other substantive esculent vegetables, that it can be not only cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, but that it can be cultivated there at small expense ; while it is less subject to disease, and more secure against degenerating in those... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...great and peculiar advantage over all other substantive esculent vegetables, that it can be not only cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, but that it can be cultivated there at small expense ; while it is less subject to disease, and more secure * " The ripe fruit of the banana... | |
 | William Rhind - 1841 - 756 pages
...great and peculiar advantage over all other substantial esculent vegetables, that it can be not only cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, but that it can be cultivated there at small expense ; while it is less subject to disease, and more secure against degenerating in those... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1842 - 286 pages
...was paid to the varieties of this plant, or before it was planted over a large extent of ground. It has this great advantage over most other vegetables...states of the weather, than are most other crops. 660. The last order of this group which will be here noticed, is that of ScRopHULARiNE^E, which may... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 pages
...food ; — that it can not only be cultivated in places where no POTATOE. ORDER SCROPHULA1UNRE. 485 others can be profitably grown, but that it can be...states of the weather, than are most other crops. 660. The last order of this group which will be here noticed, is that of SCROPHULARINE*, which may... | |
 | Farmers' Alliance - 1873 - 610 pages
...that it can not ouly be cultivated in places where no others can be profitably grown, hut that it c,.n be cultivated there at a small expense, and is less...consider the nature of the plant physiologically. Yet we caunot be surprised at Dr. C.'s statement when we read the Mowing, written to the Timet by a Cambridgeshire... | |
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