 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - 1884 - 900 pagine
...have been grown from seed ; and it speaks much for the perfect suitability of the soil and cliniato in most parts of the island that such excellent fruit...cottages and gardens of the slaves. I know of a small sugar estate on which, forty years after emancipation, the fruits of the orange trees planted by the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1884 - 984 pagine
...have, been produced under a plan which embodies uouo of the teachings of horticultural art — lindera plan, in short, which is one of neglect or lucky chance...oldest trees yielding the largest crops are only to bo found on those parts of estates which were set apart for the cottages and gardens of the slaves.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - 1890 - 1000 pagine
...been produced under a plan which embodies nono of the teachings of horticultural art, under a plau, in short, which is one of neglect, or lucky chance,...are only to be found on those parts of estates which wore eet apart for the cottages and gardens of the slaves. I know of a small sugar estate on which,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903) - 1891 - 994 pagine
...leaf, the flowers, the seeds, and the rind, he says : The sweet oranges grown in Jamaica have been, up to quite recent years, of no particular or named...cottages and gardens of the slaves. I know of a small sugar estate on which, forty years after emancipation, the fruits of the orange trees planted by the... | |
 | 1891 - 980 pagine
...plan which embodies none of the teachings of horticultural art, under a plan, in short, which isone of neglect or lucky chance, left to take the place...oldest trees yielding the largest crops are only to be fonnd on those parts of estates which were set apart for the cottages and gardens of the slaves. I... | |
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... plan, in short, which is one of neglect or lucky chance, left to take the place of intelligent guidance. The earliest cultivators of oranges in this island were the enslaved negroes, and the oldest trees yielding the largest crops are only to be found... 