At New York, barley could be taken from the ground in time sufficient for preparing for ruta baga; farther to the north this could not be the case.
Even stage horses, which, from the severity of their labour, require the most nourishing food, have been kept in England on hay and steam-boiled ruta baga.
In this state it would probably ripen no where later than the first of July, which would be in time sufficient for the crop of ruta baga.
With a proper application of the requisite quantity of manure to ruta baga, it may be successfully grown on almost any dry soil, when well and deeply mellowed, from the sandy to the deep rich loams.
The Italians are said to eat the leaves in salad, but hardly of that species--Ruta montana--which botanists say it is dangerous to handle without gloves.
A quaint old rhyme says of the plant:-- "Nobilis estruta quia lumina reddit acuta.
The Wall Rue (Ruta muraria) is a white Maidenhair Fern, and is named by some Salvia vitoe.
The WALL RUE (Asplenium Ruta muraria), belongs to the family of ferns.
The Ruta Baga, therefore, when set out for bearing seed, should be placed at a distance from every other seed plant of the Turnip or Cabbage kind.
With regard to the Ruta Baga, Mr. Cobbett says, it is apt to degenerate, if the seed be not saved with care.
The same teeth, if not too long, may serve to regulate and expedite the sowing of the Ruta Baga seed.
In this way, Mr. Cobbett thinks, a thousand bushels of Ruta Baga may be raised on an acre that will yield 50 bushels of Indian corn.
The common method of heaping and covering roots in the field, and which Mr. Cobbett practised with the Ruta Baga, is perhaps, as good as any.
The harvesting of Carrots may follow that of the Mangel Wurtzel; and the Ruta Baga succeed the Carrots.
I would begin feeding with Mangel Wurtzel--follow next with Carrots--and conclude with Ruta Baga; for the latter root will keep sound until the commencement of the summer succeeding their growth.
At the same time he strongly recommends the raising of the Ruta Baga, by transplanting, for entire crops, as for preferable to the sowing of the seeds, and letting the plants grow where their seeds first vegetated.
But Mr. Cobbett recommends a previous deep fall-ploughing, and another deep ploughing in April, of the ground intended for the Ruta Baga.
Lata Rato andRuta Mas or Hayngu May, a grain, 227 Phaseolus Minimoo Roxb.
The Lato, Rato, or Ruta mas of the Parbatiyas, is by the Newars called Hayngu may.
Of these one of the brightest is Ruta patavina, a dwarf plant with lemon-coloured flowers and a very neat habit of growth.
Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.
Defn: A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India.
One half the above quantity and five bushels of bone dust dissolved in sulphuric acid, will produce a wonderful crop of turnips, or ruta bagas.
In some sections, no amount of manuring appears to make corn do well after turnips or ruta bagas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
