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All nursery-men and fruit-growers agree, that land must be well drained for fruit.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

Indeed, every one knows that a soil two feet deep is better than one a foot deep; and market-gardeners and nursery-men show, by their practice, that they know, if others do not, that a trenched soil three feet deep is better than one of any less depth.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

This fact accounts for the unproductiveness of certain varieties of strawberries unless mixed with plants of some other variety, it being well known to nursery-men that some varieties produce only the female parts of flowers.

Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

This fact accounts for the unproductiveness of certain varieties of strawberries unless mixed with plants of some other variety, it being well known to nursery-men that some varieties produce the female parts of flowers almost exclusively.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

In this case, as has been true of nearly all other fruits, our nursery-men and fruit-growers first looked to Europe for improved varieties.

The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863

The information given in this work on this subject may be relied on as sanctioned by the most experienced nursery-men.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

The information given in this work, on this subject, may be relied on, as sanctioned by the most experienced nursery-men.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839

"I have made great progress," he boasts, "and talk very learnedly with the nursery-men, except that now and then a lettuce runs to seed, overturns all my botany, and I have more than once taken it for a curious West Indian flowering shrub.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914