. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1301 of fiber, worth $12, per day. They receive one-half for cleaning. Vegetables.âThe great variety of vegetables that can be grown in the Philippines and the constant supply that might be had from a well-tended garden, indicate the source from which the people should obta
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1301 of fiber, worth $12, per day. They receive one-half for cleaning. Vegetables.âThe great variety of vegetables that can be grown in the Philippines and the constant supply that might be had from a well-tended garden, indicate the source from which the people should obtain their principal food. As far as can, be observed, gardening is not especially in the line of the Filipino. The Japanese accomplish marvels in gardening by the use of human excreta, both solid and liquid; the Filipino has, in addition, the excreta of the water buffalo, but he rarely has what can be properly called a garden. He may have small patches of beans, sweet potatoes and taro, but nothing approaching a garden, except culti- vated for the city market. The traveler in the Philip- pines is impressed with the high culture of the people along some lines and their total lack in others. Gar- dening is one of their deficiencies, and it is the more surprising from their proximity to China and Japan. The following well-known vegetables are produced in the islands: Beans of many varieties, beets, carob bean, celery, cabbage, cassava, carrot, cucumber, eggplant, garlic, gourd, lettuce, lentil, muskraelon, onion, okra, pump- kin, pea, pepper of all kinds, peanut, potato, radish, sesame weed, sweet potato, turnip, taro, tannier, tomato, watermelon, yam. bruits.â The banana, fruit of Afiisa sapienhini (Figs 187, 188), is abundant in all portions of the islands. Except on the coffee plantations it is mainly produced close to the na- tive huts, where it supplies shade and furnishes food. Tlie principal variety sold in the local markets is the Guinea. The fruit of this va- riety is 4-
Size: 1975px × 1266px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
