The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 11

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Pagina 45 - ... nearly half an inch long and a quarter of an inch in diameter, so that a number of them may constitute a star, or other device.
Pagina 676 - ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. By Sir HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart. LL.DFRS &c. 5th Edition, with Notes by his Brother, Dr. JOHN DAVY, 8vo. 15s. THE CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE VINE ON OPEN WALLS. By CLEMENT HOARE.
Pagina 571 - No. 9., 40£ ft. in circumference ; sound and tall. No. 10., 48 ft. in circumference ; tubercled ; tall ; some cavities at the base ; much of the top gone. A prostrate tree near to No. 1. was 35 ft. in circumference at the base, 22 ft. at 66 ft.
Pagina 429 - It is with feelings of the highest possible satisfaction that we are enabled to announce to his Lordship in Council, that the tea shrub is beyond all doubt indigenous in Upper Assam, being found there through an extent of country of one month's march within the Honourable Company's territories, from Sadiya and Beesa, to the Chinese frontier province of Yunnan, where the shrub is cultivated for the sake of its leaf.
Pagina 429 - Charlton, to be by far the most important and valuable that has ever been made, in matters connected with the agricultural or commercial resources of this empire. We are perfectly confident that the tea plant which has been brought to light will be found capable, under proper management, of being cultivated, with complete success, for commercial purposes, and that, consequently, the object ot our labours may be before long fully realised.
Pagina 101 - Treatise on isometrical drawing as applicable to geological and mining plans, picturesque delineations of ornamental grounds, perspective views and working plans of buildings and machinery, and to general purposes of civil engineering; with details of improved metbids of preserving plans and records of subterranean operations in mining districts, bond., 1884.
Pagina 447 - ... kind to be done, he used to say nothing about it in the way of preparation, but merely give orders, perhaps late in the afternoon, that it should be cleared out and in a perfect state by the following morning at the time he came out to take his ride. The whole strength of the village was then put in requisition, and employed during the night ; and the next day, when Mr.
Pagina 48 - The house was an old castle, with battlements and six different roofs of various heights and directions, confusedly and inconveniently combined, and all rotten...
Pagina 88 - States are, in most particulars, very similar to those of Great Britain. Circumstances, however, require variations, which the sagacity of the American cultivator will lead him to adopt, often in contradiction to the opinions of those who understand the science better than the practice of husbandry. In Europe, land is dear and labor cheap; but in the U.
Pagina 430 - Charlton, and we are now enabled to state with certainty, that not only is it a genuine tea, but that no doubt can be entertained of its being the identical tea of China, which is the exclusive source of all the varieties and shades of the tea of commerce.

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