Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where animals feed.
- noun A level surface forming a table along which material is fed to a machine.
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March, or beginning of April, the plants having been iu the feed-bed one or two years, they fhould be taken out, and plant, ed in the nurfery: The di fiance of one foot afunder, and two feet in the rows, fhould be given them.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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After they are all up, and Have flood a year or two in the feed-bed, they may be taken up and planted in the nurfery, at fmall diftances; and in two or three years they will be of a proper iize to plant out to Hand.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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After they are come up, and have flood one year in the feed-bed, the ftrongeft fliould be planted out in the nurfery, a foot afunder, and two feet diftant in the rows; and the fecond fummer after, many ct them will be fit for working.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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After thefe have flood two years in the feed-bed, they fhould be taken up, have their roots fhortened, and be planted out in the nurfery, a feot. afunder, in rows at two feet diftance.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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Three earths on 50 acres of cabbage-land, - 4 10 o Digging the feed-bed, fowing, &c.
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Raking together and carting,. at I J -. 6 d. -- 225 o o Four earths on 450 acres of cabbage-land, - 90 o a Digging the feed-bed and fowing, 400
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£56 MAO of fraelling is, their remarkable fragrance, which indeed is of fo great a degree, as to perfume the air to fome diffamce; and if one r two, until MEL if x ttf3 they are got flrong; but where a quantity is wanted, an£ dm it no fuch coaveniency, it may be proper to let then rc~ ffmm in the feed-bed another winter, for the conveniency of tang corertd in bad weather; and then in the fpring they may be pU»»*** out in the nurfery, in lines two feet afunder, gui at one foot diftance.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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They may be likewife raifed by feeds * for if thefe are fown in the Qring, in a bed of light earth, half an inch deep* they will come Up, and require no other trouble than weeding until they arc finally planted out, which may be two years after their appearance, and which may be done very well from the feed-bed, without previous planting in the nurfery. riftrfH Mespilus*
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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