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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the spring when the planting season is over. If, after the trenching, two or three chaldrons of lime be laid on an acre, the land will produce an excellent crop, either ot cabbages or turnips, which, being eaten off by sheep in the autumn, will make the land in fine order for all sorts of tree-seeds: but as the Oak is the sort of tree we cultivate in general, I shall confme myself particularly to our present method of raising and managing that most valuable species.?In the autumn, after the cabbages or turnips are eaten off, the ground will require nothing more than a common digging. So soon as the acorns fall, after being provided with a good quantity, we sow them in the following manner: draw drills with a hoe in: t.he same manner aa is practised for pease, and .fow; the acorns therein so thick as nearly to .touch each other; leave the space of one foot between row and row, and between every fifth row allow the space of two feet for the alleys. .While the acorns are in the ground, great care must be takcpi to keep them from ycrmin, which frequently will make great havock amongst the beds, if not timely prevented.? Let this caution serve for most other sorts of tree-seeds. After the acorns are come up, the beds will require only to be kept clean from weeds tilt they want thinning; and as the plants frequently grow more in erne wet season, where the soil is tolerably good, than in two dry ones, where the soil is but indifferent, the time for doing this is best ascertained by observing when the tops of the rows meet. Our rule is to thin them then, which we do by taking away one row on each side the middlemost, which leaves the remaining three rows the same distance apart as the breadth of the alleys. In taking up these rows we oaght to be anxiously careful neither to injur...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217481755 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217481752 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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