Purdy's Small Fruit Instructor .. - Couverture rigide

Purdy, A M

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 135972592X ISBN 13 : 9781359725929

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Ht acre. How much shall we need for the family? We want an average of two quarto on every breakfast and tea table, which would be nearly or about one bushel a week By planting three or four sorts, we may have them for a month. We must, therefore, provide for four or five bushels. At one-half the amount per acre just indicated, one twentieth of an acre would do, or eight square rods. Prepare the ground at once, sei out the plants, keep the rows clean and free from runners, and you cannot fail to bi highly gratified with the result. Remember the condition keep the rows clean foi if you allow them to become weedy, they will bear but little, and will soon run out; and you will probably come to the conclusion that strawberries wont pay, and are a humbug. You would have the same opinion of raising corn if you planted it without plowing the ground, or allowed the weeds and grass to overtop the corn. Strawberries are as easy to hoe as corn. Currants follow strawberries. They come at a time when every farmer has plenty of cream to add to them. The Red Dutch, the White Dutch, the Cherry or Versailles, and the White Grape, furnish an excellent supply. Take the two last named, mixed together, the one cream white, and the other deep crimson, and both nearly as large as medium grapes, and they present a rich and attractive appearance, fit for the table of a sovereign as every American voter is. Currants scarcely ever fail but to be really fine they must be properly pruned, and kept well cultivated. Neglect them, allow them to become stunted and full of brush, and the finest will be small and sour; but thin out judiciously the old wood and needless shoots, and by good cultivation put ,life and vigor into the bushes, and they will bear trusses of large berries worth seeing.. As a general rule, neglected bushes growing in grass, bear currants about one-fifth the size of thos
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 135972592X
• ISBN 13: 9781359725929
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible