 No doubt, the proper time for using liquid manure is when the fruit is beginning to swell, and has acquired, by means of its own green surface, a power of suction capable of opposing that of the leaves. At that time, liquid manure may be applied freely,...  The New England Farmer - Page 3351852Full view - About this book
 | Agriculture - 1851 - 686 pages
...the leaves. At that time liquid manure mar be applied freely, and continued, from time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. But at the first sign...it should be wholly withheld. The ripening process consista in certain changes which the constituents of the fruit and surrounding leaves undergo ; it... | |
 | Farm buildings - 1852 - 464 pages
...be applied freely, and continued, from time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. But, at tl;e first sign of ripening, or even earlier, it should...crude matters, such as liquid manure will supply. We all know that when ripening has once begun, even water spoils the quality of fruit, although it... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - Botany - 1852 - 596 pages
...the leaves. At that time, liquid manure may be applied freely ; and continued, from time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. But at the first sign...ripening, or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld." " If liquid manure is applied to a plant when the flowers are growing, the vigor which it communicates... | |
 | John Lindley - Gardening - 1855 - 662 pages
...time, liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued, from tr time to time, as long as the frnit is growing. But, at the first sign of ripening, or...crude matters, such as liquid manure will supply. We all know that when ripening has once begun, even water spoils the quality of fruit, although it... | |
 | John Lindley - Gardening - 1855 - 636 pages
...liquid manure may be applied fn-rly, aud continued, from rp 578 MANURE FOR ROOT-CROPS. time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. But, at the first sign...surrounding leaves undergo ; it is a new elaboration, which caii only be interfered with by the continual introduction, of crude matters, such as liquid manure... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Agriculture - 1856 - 424 pages
...of the leaves. At that time, liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued from time to time as long as the fruit is growing. But, at the first sign...ripening, or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld. If liquid manure is applied to a plant when the flowers are growing, the vigor which it communicates... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Agriculture - 1856 - 424 pages
...liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued from time to time as long as the fruit is grow,ng. But, at the first sign of ripening, or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld. If liquid manure is applied to a plant when the flowers are growing, the vigor which it communicates... | |
 | Thomas Gregg - Fruit - 1857 - 178 pages
...the leaves. At that time, liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued from time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. But at the first sign...of ripening, or even earlier, it should be wholly witht held.— Dr. Lindlcy. SALT freely used on asparagus beds, wlil be found highly bencficial. It... | |
 | John Phin - Grapes - 1862 - 378 pages
...the leaves. " At that time liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued from time to time as long as the fruit is growing. But at the first sign...or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld." The action of manure is even now very far from being thoroughly understood. When modern chemistry was first... | |
 | John Phin - Grapes - 1862 - 394 pages
...of the leaves. "At that time liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued from time to time as long as the fruit is growing. But at the first sign...or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld." The action of manure is even now very far from being thoroughly understood. When modern chemistry was first... | |
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