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 84
... containing two buds each , and let the uppermost buds have an inch of the blank wood remaining beyond them . The extremities of these must be cut in a slanting manner , and the slant sides be opposite to the buds . Take the other ends ...
... containing two buds each , and let the uppermost buds have an inch of the blank wood remaining beyond them . The extremities of these must be cut in a slanting manner , and the slant sides be opposite to the buds . Take the other ends ...
Page 92
... contain many naked branches , then the quantity of proper juice prepared in the leaves , will be so small , in proportion to the demands which in its descent will be made upon it , that a new layer will with difficulty be formed at all ...
... contain many naked branches , then the quantity of proper juice prepared in the leaves , will be so small , in proportion to the demands which in its descent will be made upon it , that a new layer will with difficulty be formed at all ...
Page 95
... contain not more than four buds . If a shoot contain five buds , it cannot with propriety be called a spur . Spur pruning , therefore , is the annual shortening of the fruit- bearing ON THE PRUNING OF VINES . 95.
... contain not more than four buds . If a shoot contain five buds , it cannot with propriety be called a spur . Spur pruning , therefore , is the annual shortening of the fruit- bearing ON THE PRUNING OF VINES . 95.
Page 97
... contain none , and if to four , only one of these well - ripened buds , all the rest will have been cut off in the pruning ; or , what is tanta- mount to it , the shoots will have been pinched back in the early part of the summer , just ...
... contain none , and if to four , only one of these well - ripened buds , all the rest will have been cut off in the pruning ; or , what is tanta- mount to it , the shoots will have been pinched back in the early part of the summer , just ...
Page 162
... containing sugared beer , be hung up in different parts of the vine , great numbers of wasps and flies will be enticed into them and destroyed . But if these insects be very numerous , this will only prove a partial protection . The ...
... containing sugared beer , be hung up in different parts of the vine , great numbers of wasps and flies will be enticed into them and destroyed . But if these insects be very numerous , this will only prove a partial protection . 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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