The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation

Författare
Francis Home
(Francis Home., Kapitelrubriker: Part I: 1. Causes of the slow progress of agriculture... 2. Of different soils 3. Of the rich black soil 4. Of the clay soil 5. Of the sandy soil 6. Of the chalky soil 7. Of till 8. Of the mossy soil Part II. 1. The natural methods of providing vegetable food 2. Of manures... 3. Of marl 4. Of unburnt calcarious bodies, and quick-lime 5. Of vegetables in an entire and in a corrupted state, and of dunghills 6. Of manures... 7. Of animal manures Part III. 1. The effects of different substances with regard to vegetation 2. Of the food of vegetables Part IV. 1. Of opening and pulverising the soil 2. Effects of the atmosphere 3. Change of spiecies 4. Of ploughing 5. Of composts 6. Of vegetation Part V. 1. Of weeds 2. Of a wet soil 3. Of rains 4. Of faulty seeds 5. Diseases of plants 6. Plan for the further improvement of agriculture)
Språk
Engelska
Förlag År Ort Om boken ISBN
Millar 1759 Storbritannien, London viii, 207 sidor. 8:o