Download or read book The French Garden A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation or Market Gardening written by C. D. McKay and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the french art of market gardening - a treatise on intensive, year round cultivation for the domestic gardener.
Download or read book The French Garden a Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation written by C. D. McKay and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... PRACTICAL MANUAL OF FRENCH GARDENING. CHAPTER I.--FRENCH AND ENGLISH GARDENERS. Seeing that the French garden is now really coming to stay with us, a book giving full cultural directions becomes a necessity, and it is hoped that the information contained in this book will be of practical use to those who are unacquainted with the methods employed by the French gardeners who send such large quantities of the early vegetables to England. It must be well understood that large French gardens are a mistake. A small one requires such an enormous amount of indefatigable and careful labour and attention that there can be no large ones. When the idea of growing early lettuces and other vegetables in England was first advocated it was poohpoohed. Gardeners said that the climate was so different to that of Paris that we should never be able to keep any of the plants during the winter. This has now been proved to be a fallacy, and the climate in some districts of England is even better than that of Paris, and the young plants of lettuces do not " fog " off to the same extent. The last few years have been extremely bad ones for the Parisian growers, as they have lost so many of their seedling lettuce plants, whereas here none have been lost. And when one knows that in Paris there are 360,000 lights and 2,160,000 bellglasses, one can understand what an opening there is here, and that it will require many scores of French gardens to supply our wants. The French gardens sell 13,500,000 francs' worth of their early produce per year. Why cannot we, with our huge city, containing the population of a country, supply ourselves? The French grow their lettuce under small " chassis," or frames, and also a large quantity under " cloches," or bellglasses, but it...
Download or read book New Woman Ecologies written by Alicia Carroll and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played a significant role in environmental awareness and action. From the Arts and Crafts period, to before, during, and after the Great War, the iconic figure of the New Woman accompanied and informed historical women’s responses to the keen environmental issues of their day, including familiar concerns about air and water quality as well as critiques of Victorian floral ecologies, extinction narratives, land use, local food shortages, biodiversity decline, and food importation. As the Land Question intersected with the Woman Question, women contributed to a transformative early green culture, extolling the benefits of going back to the land themselves, as "England should feed her own people." Carroll traces the convergence of this work and a self-realization articulated by Mona Caird’s 1888 demand for the "acknowledgement of the obvious right of the woman to possess herself body and soul." By the early twentieth century, a thriving community of New Woman authors, gardeners, artists, and land workers had emerged and created a vibrant discussion. Exploring the early green culture of Arts and Crafts to women’s formation of rural utopian communities, the Women’s Land Army, and herbalists of the Great War and beyond, New Woman Ecologies shows how women established both their own autonomy and the viability of an ecological modernity.
Download or read book The Winter Harvest Handbook written by Eliot Coleman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated farming expert Coleman continues to lead the way in organic gardening, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.
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Download or read book Alternative Agriculture A History written by Joan Thirsk and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997-10-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.
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Download or read book The Science and Practice of Farming During 1910 in Great Britain England Wales Scotland as Seen Through the Scientific and Agricultural Press written by International Institute of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural Science and Practice and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
