Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts. C By Robert B. Roosevelt ...Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1869 - 304 páginas |
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... Plants ...... ہو 169 CHAPTER XIII . SCIENCE . Knowledge is Power . - The new Flower . - A Thing of Beauty . — Ap- pearance contrasted with Perfume . - The Fox is the Finder .. 179 CHAPTER XIV . A SECOND DIGRESSION - FAIRY TALES FOR ...
... Plants ...... ہو 169 CHAPTER XIII . SCIENCE . Knowledge is Power . - The new Flower . - A Thing of Beauty . — Ap- pearance contrasted with Perfume . - The Fox is the Finder .. 179 CHAPTER XIV . A SECOND DIGRESSION - FAIRY TALES FOR ...
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... plant cabbages , and the tradition is that they grew and came out cabbages , and did not , as they usually do , spread themselves and be- come very fine but rather loose leaves . The soil was deep , a well having been sunk on the ...
... plant cabbages , and the tradition is that they grew and came out cabbages , and did not , as they usually do , spread themselves and be- come very fine but rather loose leaves . The soil was deep , a well having been sunk on the ...
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... plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or convert a carrot into a turnip . As for planting , any fool can do that , and as for making it grow , the wisest man in the land can not effect it . These and a few other similar ar ...
... plant a pea and induce it to come up a bean , or convert a carrot into a turnip . As for planting , any fool can do that , and as for making it grow , the wisest man in the land can not effect it . These and a few other similar ar ...
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... plants , and had not the remotest notion of modes or seasons of planting ; but , now that there was a possibility that these imaginings might be realized , I was so charm- ed , that I resolved to record my experiences for the guidance ...
... plants , and had not the remotest notion of modes or seasons of planting ; but , now that there was a possibility that these imaginings might be realized , I was so charm- ed , that I resolved to record my experiences for the guidance ...
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... plant the kitchen garden im- mediately . My ideas on the subject were vague . I knew what I wanted , but had not an accurate con- ception how those wants were to be converted into realities . I must have a choice , yet ample supply ...
... plant the kitchen garden im- mediately . My ideas on the subject were vague . I knew what I wanted , but had not an accurate con- ception how those wants were to be converted into realities . I must have a choice , yet ample supply ...
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appeared aquilegia formosa asparagus beautiful new coach became better Bridgeman called cauliflowers CHAPTER chickens churn Cloth cost cream crimson flax Cushy Dandy Jim Daniel O'Rourke peas Datura DATURA WRIGHTII dollars doubt DUTCH REPUBLIC early earth egg-plants eggs entire fact feathers feet five acres flowers flure Flushing French Revolution fresh fruit garden gourds Gran grass grew grow head horse inquired intirely Irish Irishmen JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kitchen leaves look manure Marrott matter milk mind musquitoes Nantucket natural never occasionally onions Patrick piazza pig-pens plants pleasant pond pretty profit pump pups rain replied roof round SAMUEL SMILES season seedling seeds seemed skating spite spring strawberries summer sure thing tion trouble turnips vegetables verbenas village vols wagon waited wanted weeds Weeville Weeville's wonderful yer honor
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