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Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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etable and flower, for the United States, and for export aswell, which are grown in this country. The seed-raisingindustry in California has grown to huge proportions inthe last few years and in consequence, the numerous smallseed farms scattered over the eastern and middle westernstates have almost disappeared entirely. The main reasonfor Californias leadership in this industry is its climate,which is so admirably suited for this cultivation that it ispractically hopeless for other states to compete.
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Threshing and Carrying Onion Seed 3*4 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS November, 1906 The Santa Claravalley, south of SanFrancisco, on ac-count of the highfertility of its soiland the regularityof its seasons is es-pecially well adapt-ed to the productionof flower and vege-table seeds, and it isfrom this districtalone that over amillion pounds ofseeds are annuallyproduced. Abouthalf of this numberof pounds of seedsis onion seed whichis shipped in bulk, towholesale dealersthroughout thecountry and is ex-ported as well toforeign merchants.All the seeds grownin other places in California are dried entirely in the open air, and there canbe little doubt that through this agency of pure air and warmsunshine the resulting product is far more vigorous andgerminates more readily than that produced with the assist-ance of artificial drying. In the Santa Clara valley there areno scorching heats and no biting frosts and while rain usuallyfalls in ample quantity to mature the plants during theirgrowth,

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  • bookyear:1905
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  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:The_LuEsther_T_Mertz_Library__the_New_York_Botanical_Garden
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