The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 - Agriculture |
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... Crops in Times of great Drought . By Mr. George Fulton , Gardener to Lord Northwick , at Northwick Park , Gloucestershire - 398 399 and on the Use of Salt as a Manure for Ara- ble Lands , and for renovating Grass Lawns . By William ...
... Crops in Times of great Drought . By Mr. George Fulton , Gardener to Lord Northwick , at Northwick Park , Gloucestershire - 398 399 and on the Use of Salt as a Manure for Ara- ble Lands , and for renovating Grass Lawns . By William ...
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... crops . This has been the case at all times , but it is more particularly so at present , when the progress of ... cropping ; the fruit - trees against the walls have ceased to bear freely : the walls are dilapidated by the alternate ...
... crops . This has been the case at all times , but it is more particularly so at present , when the progress of ... cropping ; the fruit - trees against the walls have ceased to bear freely : the walls are dilapidated by the alternate ...
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... crops as may be pro- duced , without any regard to the ultimate consequences . While on this subject , it is but fair to state that the gentry of Ireland have evinced an extraordinary degree of luke - warm- ness , in not coming forward ...
... crops as may be pro- duced , without any regard to the ultimate consequences . While on this subject , it is but fair to state that the gentry of Ireland have evinced an extraordinary degree of luke - warm- ness , in not coming forward ...
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... crop was very forward and luxuriant on a portion of the field on which green Fern had been employed . as manure ; less so on another portion on which fold and sta- ble manure had been used ; and least forward on a third por- tion , the ...
... crop was very forward and luxuriant on a portion of the field on which green Fern had been employed . as manure ; less so on another portion on which fold and sta- ble manure had been used ; and least forward on a third por- tion , the ...
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... crop , on the portion of the field manured with the green fern , was owing to the more easy re - organization of the recent vegetable matter employed as manure , by the living powers of the growing plants , the author of it is bound to ...
... crop , on the portion of the field manured with the green fern , was owing to the more easy re - organization of the recent vegetable matter employed as manure , by the living powers of the growing plants , the author of it is bound to ...
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