A Treatise on the Growth of Cucumbers and Melons: Conjointly with that of Asparagus, Mushrooms, Rhubard, EtcLongman, Rees and Company, 1839 - 95 pages |
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Page xiii - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 87 - ... decay long before the fruit is matured. It is not, therefore, easy to maintain that necessary balance of heat and moisture which in Persia arises out of the very nature of the climate and mode of cultivation. In that country, we are told, that the melon is grown in open fields, intersected in every direction by small streams, between which lie elevated beds richly manured with pigeons
Page 84 - ... reason for using the lather only is, the insects are immersed a much longer time in the fluid than they would be by the application of plain soap and water. This remedy may at first appear a tedious one, but I can assure you, from my own experience, it is not so; for any person may dress a three light frame, where the plants are properly thinned, and where every leaf requires to be dressed, in one hour; and where is the gardener that would grudge even a day to preserve the flavour of his fruit,...
Page 83 - ... discovery of so excellent a remedy : my only wish is to make it more generally known, as I have never seen it noticed in any publication, not even in that excellent work, the Encyclopaedia of Gardening, which work ought to be in the hands of every gardener that has any •wish to excel in his profession. To one gallon of rain water add six ounces of soft soap, which is to be completely dissolved before using. When used, it is to be beaten into a fine lather, (a common hearth-brush, I find, answers...
Page 17 - ... a perpetual habitation of wood-lice, or milepedes. These pits, however, have various good qualities which are well described by Mr. Macphail. The first and greatest of these is, "that the coldest place in the bed is exactly in the centre of each pit ; plants being planted in this centre or coldest part of the bed, their roots can never be hurt by the heat increasing on each side gradually, 21 being in every respect suitable for their increase and extension.
Page iv - I have for a length of time had it in contemplation to address a few lines to you on the subject of your...
Page 17 - ... defective, two or three years before Mr. Knight recommended it. Platforms, supported by posts or brick piers, were tried for several years ; and of this kind of bed Mr. Smith observes, " although the best cucumbers which ever came under my notice were produced in it, and balsams 16 ft. in circumference, yet, for want of a proper substance against which to build the linings, and the almost entire destitution of means to supply heat by absorption and conduction, experience has taught me that the...
Page 15 - With manure previously turned over two or three times, build a solid bed three inches wider than the frame...