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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... least tinged either with purple , red , or scarlet . The breadth of the leaves varies from five to seven or ten inches , and the length of the foot B stalks from four to eight inches . The flowers are CHAP PAGE I Introduction,
... least tinged either with purple , red , or scarlet . The breadth of the leaves varies from five to seven or ten inches , and the length of the foot B stalks from four to eight inches . The flowers are CHAP PAGE I Introduction,
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Clement Hoare. stalks from four to eight inches . The flowers are produced on the shoots of the same year , which shoots generally proceed from those of the year preceding ; they are in the form of a raceme , of a greenish - white colour ...
Clement Hoare. stalks from four to eight inches . The flowers are produced on the shoots of the same year , which shoots generally proceed from those of the year preceding ; they are in the form of a raceme , of a greenish - white colour ...
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... four or five good strong shoots , cuts them back to as many buds each , leaving , perhaps , twenty in the whole . Summer comes , and the vine having been seriously crippled by the premature ripening of fruit in the preceding year , and ...
... four or five good strong shoots , cuts them back to as many buds each , leaving , perhaps , twenty in the whole . Summer comes , and the vine having been seriously crippled by the premature ripening of fruit in the preceding year , and ...
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... four hours when the wind has blown briskly , the shoots exposed to its influence have not perceptibly grown at all , while , shortly after- wards , the wind having entirely sunk away , the same shoots have grown upwards of three inches ...
... four hours when the wind has blown briskly , the shoots exposed to its influence have not perceptibly grown at all , while , shortly after- wards , the wind having entirely sunk away , the same shoots have grown upwards of three inches ...
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... four feet from the surface , and the drains a foot deep , the clear depth of the border will then be three feet . If the soil of this be heavy and of a retentive nature , two thirds of it ought to be taken entirely away , and the ...
... four feet from the surface , and the drains a foot deep , the clear depth of the border will then be three feet . If the soil of this be heavy and of a retentive nature , two thirds of it ought to be taken entirely away , and the ...
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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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