A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine on Open WallsLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Mason and Son, Chichester, 1837 - Climbing plants - 210 pages |
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Page 28
... equal to their powers of maturation . The weight so assigned , has since proved to have been pretty near the correct proportion . The results of all these experiments were care- fully registered from year to year , and at the close of ...
... equal to their powers of maturation . The weight so assigned , has since proved to have been pretty near the correct proportion . The results of all these experiments were care- fully registered from year to year , and at the close of ...
Page 31
... equal to the maturation of ten pounds of grapes for every remaining inch of girt . The proportionate quantity for fractional parts of an inch may be easily calculated . The circumference of the largest stem in this scale is ten inches ...
... equal to the maturation of ten pounds of grapes for every remaining inch of girt . The proportionate quantity for fractional parts of an inch may be easily calculated . The circumference of the largest stem in this scale is ten inches ...
Page 33
... fruit , is pretty nearly equal in all . It may be further re- marked , that if a vine during any season be undercropped , the deficiency may be partly made D good the following year , by causing it to bear OF THE VINE . 33.
... fruit , is pretty nearly equal in all . It may be further re- marked , that if a vine during any season be undercropped , the deficiency may be partly made D good the following year , by causing it to bear OF THE VINE . 33.
Page 34
... cultivated on open walls , to consider every bud ( rejecting the two bottom ones on each shoot ) as equal to the production of half a pound weight of fruit ; - • that is , if the stem of a vine 34 FRUIT - BEARING POWERS.
... cultivated on open walls , to consider every bud ( rejecting the two bottom ones on each shoot ) as equal to the production of half a pound weight of fruit ; - • that is , if the stem of a vine 34 FRUIT - BEARING POWERS.
Page 35
... equal to the maturation of twenty - five pounds ' weight of grapes , and , therefore , the number of buds to remain after pruning will be fifty . This proportion , would , in general , be too great , even in the shyest - bear- ing sorts ...
... equal to the maturation of twenty - five pounds ' weight of grapes , and , therefore , the number of buds to remain after pruning will be fifty . This proportion , would , in general , be too great , even in the shyest - bear- ing sorts ...
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2d Edit annually aspect autumnal pruning bearing bearing-shoots bearing-wood berries betwixt bone BOTANY branches bunches of fruit bunches of grapes cloth lettered colour covered cultivated decayed degree Dictionary direction effects Engravings extremities feet flavour FLOWERING PLANTS foliage FRONTIGNAN fruit-buds future bearers ground growing grown growth inches increase injurious J. C. LOUDON layer leaves liquid manure lowermost buds manner maturation method of pruning MUSCADINE nailed nature necessary nourishment number of buds open walls operation plant point of culture portion possible pound weight produce projecting coping proper juice pruning knife push quantity of fruit remain require ripe ripen roots of vines season SHARON TURNER shew shreds Sidlesham soil solar heat solar rays soon spurs stem sufficient sun and air sun's rays supply surface tendrils thereby throughout the summer tion trained vegetation vines on open weight of fruit wind wood Woodcuts young shoots young vines
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