This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...order, either with the shears, or, if too much overgrown, with a short edging-iron. MANURE.--Animal manure, especially that procured from stables, is the best. If used in a liquid state, care must be taken that it is not tutstrong. With the young gardener, the danger will be that he may exeeed in the use of manure, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...order, either with the shears, or, if too much overgrown, with a short edging-iron. MANURE.--Animal manure, especially that procured from stables, is the best. If used in a liquid state, care must be taken that it is not tutstrong. With the young gardener, the danger will be that he may exeeed in the use of manure, going on the principle that the more he applies the better will his crop be; nothing can be more erroneous. Too much manure applied to flowering plants will result in a multiplicity of leaves and very few flowers, to the disgust, probably, of the young cultivator. Next to stable manure, that of oxen and cattle is considered the best. If slightly fermented, it does well for light hot soils; and also for ground of a light absorbent nature, for it retains its moisture a long time. Remember what we have said about digging in all decaying vegetable matter in forming garden beds. This vegetable matter, probably because it is the most procurable form of manure, is less thought of than it deserves to be; but it is folly to go far away for that which lies under your hand. Do not, however, dig in the decaying vegetables too deep; for unless fermentation sets in, they are useless. Sea-weeds, where they can be procured, make excellent manure for most vegetables, and are often collected for that purpose on the sea-coast. For seakale, artichoke, and asparagus, they are especially beneficial; but the effect seldom lasts beyond one crop. Among the other substances used as manure, we may mention soot--very beneficial for onions; it destroys maggots. Wood-ashes, partially burnt, may be used for turnips, and destroys the fly; and lime, which must not, however, be used together with animal manures. The subject of manures is one that requires great attention, as a gr...
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