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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- ERRATUM
- Contents
- THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE
- BOOK I OF THE PRINCIPAL CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH VEGETABLE LIFE WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE OPERATIONS OF GARDENING
- BOOK II OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THE OPERATIONS OF HORTICULTURE ESSENTIALLY DEPEND
- CHAPTER I Of Bottom Heat
- CHAPTER II Of the Moisture of the Soil. — Watering
- CHAPTER III Of Atmospherical Moisture and Temperature
- CHAPTER IV Of Ventilation
- CHAPTER V Of Seed-sowing
- CHAPTER VI Of Seed-saving
- CHAPTER VII Of Seed-packing
- CHAPTER VIII Of Propagation by Eyes and Knaurs
- CHAPTER IX Of Propagation by Leaves
- CHAPTER X Of Propagation by Cuttings
- CHAPTER XI Of Propagation by Layers and Suckers
- CHAPTER XII Of Propagation by Budding and Grafting
- CHAPTER XIII Of Pruning
- CHAPTER XIV Of Training
- CHAPTER XV Of Potting
- CHAPTER XVI Of Transplanting
- CHAPTER XVII Of the Preservation of Races by Seed
- CHAPTER XVIII Of the Improvement of Races
- CHAPTER XIX Of Resting
- CHAPTER XX Of Soil and Manure
- INDEX
CHAPTER XVIII - Of the Improvement of Races
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- ERRATUM
- Contents
- THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE
- BOOK I OF THE PRINCIPAL CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH VEGETABLE LIFE WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE OPERATIONS OF GARDENING
- BOOK II OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THE OPERATIONS OF HORTICULTURE ESSENTIALLY DEPEND
- CHAPTER I Of Bottom Heat
- CHAPTER II Of the Moisture of the Soil. — Watering
- CHAPTER III Of Atmospherical Moisture and Temperature
- CHAPTER IV Of Ventilation
- CHAPTER V Of Seed-sowing
- CHAPTER VI Of Seed-saving
- CHAPTER VII Of Seed-packing
- CHAPTER VIII Of Propagation by Eyes and Knaurs
- CHAPTER IX Of Propagation by Leaves
- CHAPTER X Of Propagation by Cuttings
- CHAPTER XI Of Propagation by Layers and Suckers
- CHAPTER XII Of Propagation by Budding and Grafting
- CHAPTER XIII Of Pruning
- CHAPTER XIV Of Training
- CHAPTER XV Of Potting
- CHAPTER XVI Of Transplanting
- CHAPTER XVII Of the Preservation of Races by Seed
- CHAPTER XVIII Of the Improvement of Races
- CHAPTER XIX Of Resting
- CHAPTER XX Of Soil and Manure
- INDEX
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- The Theory of HorticultureOr, An Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening upon Physiological Principles, pp. 323 - 337Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1840