Profitable Fruit-Growing for Cottagers
by John Wright
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152585119
Paperback|9781152585119
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...greatest of these are birds such as bull-finches and sparrows, destroying the buds in the spring; and caterpillars, eating the leaves, destroying the crops, and seriously injuring the trees in the early summer. Where the bushes are not numerous, and the branches at the distances apart suggested, it is not half so tedious as it seems to smear them with the following mixture, covering every particle of stems and buds with the aid of a painters brush. Take fresh lime and soot, nearly double the quantity of the former, also some clay, and mix them to the consistency of paint, adding also some melted grease of any kind best obtainable. This mixture adheres for months, and birds seldom pick out the buds, while caterpillars rarely attack the leaves, and the stems are kept free from moss. A quicker method of covering the stems with a bird and moss antidote, is to throw freshly slaked lime amongst them when every twig is wet, after having a heavy mist or fog. If the work is well done, the trees will be quite white when dry, and the lime that falls will be of benefit as a manure. If caterpillars appear, dredge them with Hellebore powder when wet, and it will destroy all that are reached, then syringe well with clear water to wash off the powder, which is poisonous; but where lime is used as above directed, freely and regularly, caterpillars seldom trouble the trees. Currants. Estimating the crop of even a fairly well-grown Currant busli at the low weight of ten pounds, and the value of the fruit at even a halfpenny a pound, the crop will be worth at the rate of nearly 40 an acre, with the bushes five feet apart; but as all experienced cultivators know, the yield is often much greater than that stated, and the price is distinctly below the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152585119 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152585118 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 52 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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