This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Air, admit as freely as possible. - Bark-Beds may be renewed, if not done in April. - Figs, keep well watered; pick off laterals. - Fruit Trees, in forcing, for treatment see April. - Grapes, gather before dead ripe, and hang in grape-room. - Pines, water every fourth morning; shift last year's crowns, if not done in April, b.; temperature at night 75°, and at midday 100°. - Potted Plants may yet be shifted, b.; shade for a few days after. - Propagate by seeds, cuttings, etc, if before omitted. - Pruning should have been finished last month; pinch down the fruit-shoots. - Strawberries, fruiting, give liquid-manure. - Syringing, generally, as fruit ripens, discontinue. - Vines, keep at a night temperature of 70°, and at midday 85°; when grapes are beginning to ripen cease from syringing; remove superfluous shoots. - Water, supply very frequently, but moderately. - Work, general, required. (See April).
Air is now so essential that potted plants of hardier kinds move to outside. - Cuttings of some plants will still grow. - Earth, is pots, stir. - Layering will yet be successful. - Leaves, clean, before removing from house. - Orange-stocks, seedlings pot singly; in arching of the orange and lemon may yet be practised. - Pruning must now be only casual. - Shifting into larger pots complete, b. - Succulent Plants, as aloes, etc, may be moved out, e. - Water frequently but moderately; it may be poured freely over their foliage as a cleanser. - Windows and doors open daily, and during mild nights, to harden before moving out.
Podophyllum pelta-tum.
Four species. Half-hardy or green-house evergreen shrubs or trees. Ripe cuttings. Peat, loam, and sand.
See Labyrinth.
Mazus pumilio, a hardy annual; and M. rugosus, a half-hardy trailing annual. Seeds. Common soil, and a warm situation.
Spiraea ulma-ria.
A load of timber, | unhewn, is | 40 cub. ft. |
squared, | 50 " | |
1 inch plank | 600 sq. ft. | |
1½ " | 400 " | |
2 " | 300 " |
A load of | 2½ inch plank | 240 sq. ft. |
3 " | 200 " | |
3½ " | 170 " | |
4 " | 150 " |
The English statute acre contains 4840 square yards; the Scotch, 5760; the Irish, 7S40; the Devonshire, customary, 4000; the Cornish, 5760; the Lancashire, 7840; the Cheshire and Staffordshire, 10,240; the Wiltshire tenantry, 3630. The French arpent is an English acre and three-fourths of a rood. The Strasburg acre is nearly half an English acre; the Prussian mor-gen is not quite three-fourths of an acre.
 
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