Rural Affairs A Practical And Copiously Illustrated Register Of Rural Economy And Rural Taste Including Country Dwellings Improving And Planting Grounds Fruits And Flower Domestic Animals And All Farm And Garden Processes

For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of all the structures, discusses their design principles, and details how they were constructed. The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs. There has been a long standing debate whether the stone slab roof and corbelled beehive shaped subterranean structures in northeastern United States are root cellars or Native American ceremonial stone chambers. New research indicates some are root cellars and some are ceremonial chambers. The third edition has a new chapter exploring this topic. Detailed guidance is provided on how to distinguish the two from each other based on differences in their architectural traits.

Excerpt from Rural Affairs: A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Vol. 7: Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals and All Farm and Garden Processes House. - 'l'he labor! Of each associative cording to the latest authorities - fully month reviewed, with notes on varieties of illustrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rural Affairs, a Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Vol. 8: Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals and All Farm and Garden Processes Vegetable physiology. - Tracing Growth of the Plant from the Embryo throughout -the Principles of Grafting and Bud ding, &c. - 6x Engravings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.