A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden: Or, An Account of the Most Valuable Fruits Cultivated in Great Britain: with Kalendars of the Work Required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden During Every Month in the Year |
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Page xvi
... flavour of particular fruits may be improved , we shall find that it is entirely due to the increased action of the vital func- tions of leaves . When the sap is first communicated by the stem to the leaves , it has experienced but few ...
... flavour of particular fruits may be improved , we shall find that it is entirely due to the increased action of the vital func- tions of leaves . When the sap is first communicated by the stem to the leaves , it has experienced but few ...
Page xviii
... flavour which the melon , when well cultivated , possesses in so eminent a degree . In The next subject of consideration is the mode of multiplying improved varieties of fruit , so as to con- tinue in the progeny exactly the same ...
... flavour which the melon , when well cultivated , possesses in so eminent a degree . In The next subject of consideration is the mode of multiplying improved varieties of fruit , so as to con- tinue in the progeny exactly the same ...
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... flavour . Ripe the end of August and beginning of September , and will not keep long . This is one of the sorts usually planted against walls in the Carse of Gowrie . In this country it does well as an open standard , and is an abundant ...
... flavour . Ripe the end of August and beginning of September , and will not keep long . This is one of the sorts usually planted against walls in the Carse of Gowrie . In this country it does well as an open standard , and is an abundant ...
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... flavour . An autumnal dessert apple from October till nearly Christmas . An excellent and valuable fruit . Some fruit of this apple were imported from Riga by the late Mr. Lee , in January , 1817 , one of which mea- sured five inches ...
... flavour . An autumnal dessert apple from October till nearly Christmas . An excellent and valuable fruit . Some fruit of this apple were imported from Riga by the late Mr. Lee , in January , 1817 , one of which mea- sured five inches ...
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... flavour . A culinary apple from Michaelmas till Christmas . A very handsome and useful kind , supposed to have had its origin in Somersetshire , from whence specimens were first communicated to the Horticultural Society by Charles ...
... flavour . A culinary apple from Michaelmas till Christmas . A very handsome and useful kind , supposed to have had its origin in Somersetshire , from whence specimens were first communicated to the Horticultural Society by Charles ...
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A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden: Or, an Account of the Most Valuable ... George Lindley No preview available - 2020 |
A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Or, an Account of the Most Valuable ... John Lindley,George Lindley No preview available - 2015 |
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