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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... nature of the vine , in reference to its culture under glass , is , yet , not sufficiently full nor explicit , with regard to the management of that plant , when cultivated on open walls . Hence the principal reason of the appearance of ...
... nature of the vine , in reference to its culture under glass , is , yet , not sufficiently full nor explicit , with regard to the management of that plant , when cultivated on open walls . Hence the principal reason of the appearance of ...
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... nature , and have , in many instances , not scrupled to use a phraseology different from that usually employed by writers on horticulture . In adopt- ing this course , my object has been to render the work more generally useful , and ...
... nature , and have , in many instances , not scrupled to use a phraseology different from that usually employed by writers on horticulture . In adopt- ing this course , my object has been to render the work more generally useful , and ...
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... natural conclusion that they might equally be used for the purposes of making wine . Experi- ments were accordingly instituted in France for this purpose , and they have been repeated here with success . From vine leaves , water , and ...
... natural conclusion that they might equally be used for the purposes of making wine . Experi- ments were accordingly instituted in France for this purpose , and they have been repeated here with success . From vine leaves , water , and ...
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... nature than any that has hitherto been promulgated , and by which the quantity of its fruit may be prodigiously in- creased , and the flavour greatly improved , that the following pages have been written . It is hoped that the whole ...
... nature than any that has hitherto been promulgated , and by which the quantity of its fruit may be prodigiously in- creased , and the flavour greatly improved , that the following pages have been written . It is hoped that the whole ...
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... nature of the plant and its peculiar characteristics , being , in general , but little understood . The im- mense quantity of wood which a vine annually pro- duces , and the force with which its sap flows , causing its most vigorous ...
... nature of the plant and its peculiar characteristics , being , in general , but little understood . The im- mense quantity of wood which a vine annually pro- duces , and the force with which its sap flows , causing its most vigorous ...
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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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