. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 114 The Principles of Fruit-growing 2. It improves the chemical condition of the soil: Catches and holds some of the leaching nitrates; Adds humus; Renders plant-foods available; Appropriates nitrogen, if it is leguminous. As a rule, crops grown for cover alone should be sown not earlier than midsummer. The most thorough tillage can then be given early in the season, and the benefits of the cover may be secured for early autumn, winter and spring. It is usually advisable to grow a crop that answers. Fig. 23. Plowi
. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 114 The Principles of Fruit-growing 2. It improves the chemical condition of the soil: Catches and holds some of the leaching nitrates; Adds humus; Renders plant-foods available; Appropriates nitrogen, if it is leguminous. As a rule, crops grown for cover alone should be sown not earlier than midsummer. The most thorough tillage can then be given early in the season, and the benefits of the cover may be secured for early autumn, winter and spring. It is usually advisable to grow a crop that answers. Fig. 23. Plowing under a cover-crop in spring, for both cover and green manure, although it is possible to make the soil too nitrogenous for some fruits by the extravagant use of the legumes. It will also be observed, from the above enumeration of the benefits arising from cover-crops, that crops killed by the winter may still be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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