Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 18W. White, 1870 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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Page 249
... plants are set out in rows from three to four feet apart , and from ten to fourteen inches in the rows , as early in the spring as possible after the soil becomes dry enough to plant . The weeds are kept down between the rows with a ...
... plants are set out in rows from three to four feet apart , and from ten to fourteen inches in the rows , as early in the spring as possible after the soil becomes dry enough to plant . The weeds are kept down between the rows with a ...
Page 295
... plants have been started during the past few years . Many wild plants , especially among the lower orders of the vegetable kingdom , are reproduced by buds which either develop in connection with the parent plant , or separate from it ...
... plants have been started during the past few years . Many wild plants , especially among the lower orders of the vegetable kingdom , are reproduced by buds which either develop in connection with the parent plant , or separate from it ...
Page 298
... plants . Cross - breeds result from the blending of mere varieties of plants of the same species , which occurs often by accident , as observed in the mixing of different varieties of Indian corn , when grow- ing in the same ...
... plants . Cross - breeds result from the blending of mere varieties of plants of the same species , which occurs often by accident , as observed in the mixing of different varieties of Indian corn , when grow- ing in the same ...
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