... Cut close over, taking a small portion of the woody part of the crown, and when all the growth of a crown is taken, remove the pot or box, but leave a thin coat ...
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In old pasture fields, the mould, wherever measurements were made, was found to be from ½ to 2 inches thicker in the furrows than on the crowns; but this would naturally follow from the ...
... As the new crowns rise somewhat above the old ones annually, it seems but rational that the plants should have sufficient room for the new growths before their crowns become even with the surface ...
... Fields formerly ploughed_.—From a very remote period and in many countries, land has been ploughed, so that convex beds, called crowns or ridges, usually about 8 feet across and separated by furrows, have ...
... They should be planted in autumn eighteen inches apart, allowing from four to six inches of soil above the crowns.
... Placing the manure in the row only reaches those feeding roots which are to be found about midway between the crowns, as just around the crowns are nothing but storage roots, besides it is ...
... Hollow-crowned, 50. Hollow-crowned Guernsey, 50. Hollow-headed, 50. Long Jersey, 50. Long Smooth Dutch, 49. Panais de Siam, 50. Panais Long, 49. Panais Rond, 50. Siam, 50. Swelling, 49. Turnip-rooted, 50 ...
... In the second method, two-inch or three-inch pots are used, filling these with soil from the bed and plunging, or burying, them level with the surface, just below where the crown is ...
... For this work advantage should be taken of a day when the weather is mild, as the crowns are easily damaged by frost. Large crowns five or six years old are preferable to smaller ...
... Hollow-crowned Guernsey. Hollow-headed. In this variety, the leaves are shorter and not so numerous as those of the Common Parsnip. The roots are oblong, about eighteen inches in length, and four inches ...
... Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the crown, and from, twelve to fourteen inches in depth. Skin pale yellow, or lemon-color, under ground; but greenish on the top, or crown, which rises ...
... Root fusiform, very long, and regular; the crown level with the surface of the soil. In good cultivation, the roots attain a length of sixteen inches, and a diameter of nearly two inches. Color ...
[Illustration: FIG. 18--CROSS-SECTION OF ASPARAGUS BED AFTER PLANTING] · Hexamer, F. M. (Fred Maier) · 2010
To still more insure success it is an excellent plan to draw up little hills of soil in the bottom of the trench over which to place the roots with the crowns resting on ...
... The crown of the root is hollow, and the foliage short and small. The variety is very early, and as a table-carrot much esteemed, both on account of the smallness of its heart ...
... The Body consists of two Pieces, the lower called the Cucurbit, and the upper the Crown. The Cucurbit or lower Part of the Body, is a kind of Receptacle proportioned to the Size of ...
... but, whatever plan be preferred, the crowns of the plants should all be on the same level; otherwise those that are too high would be liable to be injured by the knife in cutting ...
... The crowns may be potted, and where few are grown this is the usual course. The large growers pack them in boxes, with a little fine soil, and cover the tops with about four ...
[Illustration: FIG. 8--ASPARAGUS STEM, LEAVES, FLOWERS, AND BERRIES] · Hexamer, F. M. (Fred Maier) · 2010
... The rootstock, or "crown," is perennial, and makes a new growth each year of from one to three inches, extending horizontally, and generally in a straight line. It may propagate from both ends, or ...
... White Sugar Beet.] Root fusiform, sixteen inches in length, six or seven inches in its greatest diameter, contracted towards the crown, thickest just below the surface of the soil, but nearly retaining its size ...
... On the whole it appears that the crowns and furrows on land formerly ploughed, but now covered with grass, tend slowly to disappear when the surface is inclined; and this is probably in large ...
... These applications, especially that given prior to planting the young crowns, made the outlay so great, and that for so many years before any return would be received from the bed, that only small ...
... It is not a good practice to put manure in the bottom of the trenches or furrows when setting out the crowns, because it is demonstrated to be rather a waste of manure than ...
Root somewhat fusiform, or of a long, irregular, tankard shape; the crown rising just above the ground. Average specimens measure seven or eight inches in length, three inches and a half in diameter, and ...
... In either case each plant is kept separate, and all runners are pinched off as fast as they form, the idea being to throw all the strength into one strong crown. (2) In the ...
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