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 ix
... seed , or by intermixing the pollen and stigma of two varieties for the purpose of procuring something of an ... seeds for the purpose of procuring improved varieties , care should be had , not only that the seeds be taken from the ...
... seed , or by intermixing the pollen and stigma of two varieties for the purpose of procuring something of an ... seeds for the purpose of procuring improved varieties , care should be had , not only that the seeds be taken from the ...
Page x
... seed . A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are con- centrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity . How this concentration takes place , we are as ...
... seed . A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are con- centrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity . How this concentration takes place , we are as ...
Page xi
... seed . Once deposited there , the particle swells , increases gradually in size , separates into radicle and cotyledons , and finally becomes the embryo , that part which is to give birth , when the seed is sown , to a new in- dividual ...
... seed . Once deposited there , the particle swells , increases gradually in size , separates into radicle and cotyledons , and finally becomes the embryo , that part which is to give birth , when the seed is sown , to a new in- dividual ...
Page xii
... seed , its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents . Hence it seldom or never has happened that domesticated fruits have had such an origin . We have no varieties raised between the Apple and the Pear , or the ...
... seed , its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents . Hence it seldom or never has happened that domesticated fruits have had such an origin . We have no varieties raised between the Apple and the Pear , or the ...
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... seed of the old Golden Pippin by Mr. Kirke , in his nursery at Old Brompton , near London , and is highly deserving of cultivation . Like all other Golden Pippins , it is too tender for an orchard tree in cold situations . It succeeds ...
... seed of the old Golden Pippin by Mr. Kirke , in his nursery at Old Brompton , near London , and is highly deserving of cultivation . Like all other Golden Pippins , it is too tender for an orchard tree in cold situations . It succeeds ...
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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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