The American Flower Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Hot-house, Garden-house, Flower Garden and Rooms and Parlours, for Every Month in the Year ... Instructions for Erecting a Hot-house, Green-house, and Laying Out a Flower Garden, Also ... Lists of Annuals, Biennials, and Ornamental Shrubs ...

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E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1834 - Floriculture - 375 pages

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Page ii - ANSLEY, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following, to wit : " Elements of Literature ; or, an Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Page 69 - The tea leaves, being gathered, are cured in houses which contain from five to ten or twenty small furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large, flat, iron pan. There is also a long, low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who sit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath, a few pounds of the...
Page 278 - Being fixed on a promising bud, insert the knife about half an inch above the eye, slanting it downward, and about half through the shoot. Draw it out about an inch below the eye, so as to bring away the bud unimpaired with the bark, and part of the wood adhering to it ; the wood now must be carefully detached from the bark. To do this, insert the point of the knife between the bark and wood at one end, and, holding the bark tenderly, strip off the woody part, which will readily part from the bark,...
Page 14 - It is said by some writers that watering only reduces them to a temporary state of inaction, and will not destroy them. Laying aside the many prescribed nostrums, we assert that the pure element is the most effectual cure, as well as the most easy to be obtained.* Thrips, order Hemiptera, are insects so minute as scarcely to be perceptible to the naked eye. They generally lurk close to the veins of the leaves of plants, and frequently attack esculents. When viewed through a glaSvS they are seen,...
Page 106 - Nandina domestica, the only species, and a popular shrub in the gardens of Japan, where it is called Nandin. It has supra-decompound leaves, with entire lanceolate leaflets, a kind of foliage that is very rare ; the flowers are small, whitish green, in panicles, succeeded by berries of the size of a pea ; drain the pots well.
Page 69 - On every repetition, the pan is less heated, and the operation performed more closely and cautiously. The tea is then separated into the different kinds, and deposited in the store for domestic use or exportation. The different sorts of black and green arise not merely from soil, situation, or the age of the leaf; but after winnowing the tea, the leaves are taken up in succession as they fall; those nearest the machine, being the heaviest, are the gunpowder tea; the lightest, the worst, is chiefly...
Page 274 - The interior petals should decrease in size toward the centre, all regularly disposed on every side ; they should have a small degree of concavity at the lamina or broad end, the edges perfectly entire. The calyx above one inch in length, with strong broad points in a close and circular body. The colours must be perfectly distinct, disposed in regular long stripes, broadest at the edge of the lamina, and gradually becoming narrower as they approach the unguis or base of the petal, there terminating...
Page ii - ... the right whereof he claims as author (or proprietor as the case may be;) in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled 'An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights.
Page 69 - ... who, taking small quantities at a time, roll them in the palm of their hands in one direction, while others are fanning them, that they may cool the more speedily, and retain their curl the longer. This process is repeated two or three times, or oftener, before the tea is put into the stores, in order that all the moisture of the leaves may be thoroughly dissipated, and their curl more completely preserved. On every repetition the pan is less heated, and the operation performed more closely and...
Page 107 - This oil may be said to form the butter and cream of Spain and Italy. Olive Oil is made by crushing the fruit to a paste, then pressing it through a woollen bag, adding hot water as long as any oil is produced. The oil is afterwards skimmed off and put into tubs, barrels and bottles for use.

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