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... supposed, in 1617, while the potato was introduced from Peru as early as 1597 ; still the former attracted the attention of the cultivator long before the latter was much thought of; even so late as 1708 we find the potato thus noticed in Mortimer's Gardeners' ...
... Fine pale to Oats, Magill& Feed. • 17 to Black le to 17 Ditto P01and5 19 to 22 Potato to Scotch Feel. 21 to Potato to kWh Feed 18 to 21 Black l5 to Irish Potato 22 to Pose, Grey 36 to 37 38 to - Maple Blue to Imperial to Whit. a 35 to 31 Boilers ...
... they are gathered into beds three or four feet thick and of any length and breadth the quantity will cover; on this plant potatoes, lettuce, peas, or any other vegetable, not forgetting young cauliflowers, and even cabbage plants, the mild heat will stimulate ...
... still we find their bill of fare extremely scanty as regards the number of vegetables cultivated by them at the present day. Potatoes, onions, leeks, and cabbage, or Scotch kail, constitute the major part, and these in general exceedingly ill cultivated. ...
... 2. What re the reason that we cannot now grow the long potato! Science alone can answer this question, and enable us to overcome the difficulty. We have tried to get over it by raising potatoes from the seed, and the use of large quantities of manure; ...
... arhiclp grow upeak khe bop), met and forbad* future operations. The yield is now enormous. A shcond orop after early :haw potatoes, was put out in July, or in the earliest days of August, and they are now beautiful. A third succeeded to wheat (the ground ...
... canvas frocks, and both wom en and men wea r wooden shoes. Rye bread and milk principally cons titute their diet; mashed potatoes and onions, w ith occasionally slices of bacon, are the usual articles for dinner. The great superiority of the Belgian over ...
... on-Tyne ; or to his Gardener at Gertasloisk, who can show the Villa or Farms. Improved Kidney Potato. THIS is the meet Prolific and Best BADLY KIDNEY POTATO grown, Good Bound Sets 164. per Bushel, from the undersigned. JACKSON & SON, Nurseries, Kinptou ...
... and is kept in good repair ; it has always a cellarage for the dairy, a store room for the grain, an ovens an outhouse for potatoes,• roomy cattle stall, a piggery, and loft for the poultry. The lunsitue is deviant, the bedding amply sufficient, and an ...
... not all be exhausted on flowers. The small patch of ground called a garden would be more reguarly enclosed—the cabbage and potato plot and the leek and onion beds would be more carefully cultivated ; and thus a larger and better supply of vegeman's table ...
... most satisfactory : L Green crop, say turnips or fallow. 2. Barley with grams seeds. 3. Grass. 4. Oats. 5. Pease, beans, or potatoes. 6. Wheat, with dung.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., Fettea Farm, Beauly. Joan Mictiz. House FESDIFIO.—A respected correspondent ...