Description |
1 online resource (lxxiii, 251 pages) |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: [A Winter Reverie] -- Wish -- Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus Tuberosus, Linn) -- Culture of the Sweet Potatoe -- Season: Some Thoughts Grouped after Spending a Day in the Country -- Natural Angling, or Riding a Sturgeon -- Season -- Day on the Mohawk -- Farm Management; or Practical Hints to a Young Beginner -- Vegetable Shirt-Tail; or, An Excuse for Backing Out -- Autumn -- Winter Green: A Tale of My School Master -- Chapter on Live Fences -- Report on Wheat -- Misletoe -- Address Delivered before the Southern Central Agricultural Society at Macon, Georgia, October 4 [20], 1852 -- Character of the Pomologist -- Flower Garden [I] -- Plants Adapted to Soiling in the South -- Plant a Tree -- Plea for the Birds -- Southern Architecture -- Location of Homes -- Rural Adornment, & c -- Plant Peas -- Forest Trees of the South. -- No. 1 -- Forest Trees of the South. No. 2. -- the Live Oak -- (Quercus sempervirens) -- Forest Trees of the South. [No. 3.] the Willow Oak. Quercus Phellos -- One Hour at the New York Farmer's Club -- Flowers -- Satisfactory Results from Systematic Farming -- True Farmer-Planter -- Crysanthemum -- Saving Seed -- Roger Sherman's Plow -- "The Earth Is Wearing Out" -- Rare Present. -- Carolina Oranges -- Agricultural Humbugs and Fowl Fancies -- Short Chapter on Milk Cowsk -- Plea for Broomsedge -- Visit from April -- We Cultivate Too Much Land -- Proper Implements for Composting Manures: A Picture in Relief -- Editorial Drive: What We Saw during One Morning -- What Should Be the Chief Crops of the South? -- Northern Horses in Southern Cities -- Scuppernong Wine -- Good Native Hedge Plant for the South -- Soap Suds -- Best Mode of Stopping Ditches and Washes -- Cherries -- Amelanchier: New Southern Fruit -- China Berries -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No I -- Chinese Sugar Cane -- Cows and Butter: A Delightful Theme -- Neglect of Family Cemeteries -- Destruction of Forests and Its Influence upon Climate & Agriculture -- New and Rare Trees of Mexico -- United States Patent Office Reports, and Government Impositions -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No III -- Guardians of the Patent Office -- New and Rare Trees and Plants of Mexico. No 2 -- Transplanted Pleasure -- China Roses and Other Hedge-Plants in the South -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No IV -- Farm Economies -- Hill-Side Ditching -- Landscape Gardening -- New and Cheap Food for Bees -- Profession of Agriculture -- "Bell Ringing" -- "Spare the Birds" -- Essay on Reforesting the Country -- Spanish Chesnuts, Madeira Nuts, etc. -- Grape: Culture and Pruning -- Advantages of Trees -- "How to Get Up Hill" -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No VI -- Sheep Husbandry -- Dogs vs. Sheep -- Fences -- Sweets for the People -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No VIII -- Peeps over the Fence [1] -- Beneficial Effects of Flower Culture -- Peeps over the Fence [2] -- Fortunes Double Cape Jessamine: (Gardenia Fortunii) -- Wood Economy -- Peeps over the Fence [3] -- Home as a "Summer Resort" -- Frankincense a Humbug and Cure for Saddle Galls -- Who Are Our Benefactors? -- Peeps over the Fence [4] -- Mrs. Rion's Southern Florist -- Dew and Frost -- Flower Garden [II] -- Farmer Gripe and the Flowers -- Pea Vine Hay |
Summary |
The horticultural writings of brothers William and Adam Summer, of Pomaria, South Carolina, who established the Pomaria Nursery in 1840 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2017) |
Subject |
Summer, William, 1815-1878.
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Summer, Adam, 1818-1866.
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SUBJECT |
Summer, Adam, 1818-1866
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Summer, William, 1815-1878
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Summer, Adam, 1818-1866 fast |
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Summer, William, 1815-1878 fast |
Subject |
Pomaria Nurseries.
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SUBJECT |
Pomaria Nurseries fast |
Subject |
Horticultural literature -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century
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Horticultural literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Horticulture -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century
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GARDENING -- Essays.
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GARDENING -- Reference.
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GARDENING -- Vegetables.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture.
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Horticultural literature
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Horticulture
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South Carolina
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Summer, Adam, 1818-1866, author.
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Kibler, James E., editor.
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Berry, Wendell, 1934- author of foreword.
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LC no. |
2016059889 |
ISBN |
9781611177756 |
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1611177758 |
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