 | Agriculture - 1840 - 550 pages
...gathered together out of thicket*, and from among briars and thorns, or, in a word, any other sort of earth fetched from any other place, and carried to them, was mucli better for making a plentiful vintage.'1! The mixture of soils, we find from Theophrastus, was... | |
 | Agriculture - 1840 - 532 pages
...gathered together out of thickets, and from among briars and thorns, or, in a word, any other sort of earth fetched from any other place and carried...them, was much better for making a plentiful vintage." Theophrastus records the same good results as arising from a similar mode of enriching the soil. The... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agriculture - 1840 - 84 pages
...gathered together out of thickets, and from among briars and thorns, or, in a word, any other sort of earth fetched from any other place, and carried...was much better for making a plentiful vintage."* The mixture of soils, we find from Theophrastus, was a practice common in his days : they found, it... | |
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... thought that stuff gathered together out of thickets, and from among briars and thorns, or, in a word, any other sort of earth fetched from any other place, and carried to them, was much better for making a plentiful vintage... 