OLD SUBSCRIBER, Tambo.--Ferns, with the exception of the bracken and its varieties, are not difficult to destroy. Tree ferns are destroyed by cutting off the growing head, but these heads will strike root ...
Article : 335 wordsDuring 1892 the total of California's fruit exports was 409,917,216 pounds, to carry which there were were required 20,495 freight cars, and if to this there be added the export of wine and ...
Article : 328 wordsA large concern in London is described by a writer in an English paper as follows:--"The factory alone employs 131 clerks, 46 travellers, 1,600 hands, and turns out annually just ...
Article : 492 wordsThe entire soil where fruit trees are growing should be either mulched, cultivated or scarified so frequently during the growing season that all weeds and vegetation will be kept ...
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Article : 551 wordsSelect large, barely ripe, greengage plums. With a sharp knife pare them carefully, taking off nothing but the skin. Drop them in cold water as they are pared. Weigh them, and ...
Article : 113 wordsThe first season after the young fruit tree has been transplanted from the nursery to its permanent home in the orchard is a critical period in its existence, and it is hardly too much ...
Article : 293 wordsTake perfectly ripe red currants. Wash them and put into a preserving kettle, and set over the fire until they are all scalded. Pass the juice through a jelly bag, and to every pint of ...
Article : 90 wordsPerhaps the most important question before the farmer is what to mix with water in order to obtain the highest price. Water costs nothing and is found everywhere. With every ...
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Article : 343 wordsThe "Rural New Yorker" gives prominence to a new method of growing celery, as practised by Robert Nivin. The soil is made very rich, and is dug deeply and pulverised thoroughly. ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Sat 25 Nov 1893, Page 29
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