The Theory of Horticulture: Or, An Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening Upon Physiological Principles |
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... apple , and in objecting to methods at that time commonly in use , to express himself in the following words : - " I beg to be understood that I condemn the machinery only which our gardeners employ , and that I admit most fully their ...
... apple , and in objecting to methods at that time commonly in use , to express himself in the following words : - " I beg to be understood that I condemn the machinery only which our gardeners employ , and that I admit most fully their ...
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... apple - orchards are often destroyed by field - mice , which girdle the trees near the ground , and they perish in the course of the ensuing season . The trees may however be preserved , by taking a suitable circle or section of bark ...
... apple - orchards are often destroyed by field - mice , which girdle the trees near the ground , and they perish in the course of the ensuing season . The trees may however be preserved , by taking a suitable circle or section of bark ...
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... flower lengthens and bears its parts upon its sides , as in the Pear and Apple , whose fruit is * Proceedings of the Horticultural Society , vol . . p . 39. fig . 2 . 12 Still more rarely a flower lengthens , and produces. 58 VITAL ACTIONS ...
... flower lengthens and bears its parts upon its sides , as in the Pear and Apple , whose fruit is * Proceedings of the Horticultural Society , vol . . p . 39. fig . 2 . 12 Still more rarely a flower lengthens , and produces. 58 VITAL ACTIONS ...
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... apple of the Indian Archipelago . The following very striking illustrations of these facts have , among many others , occurred in the present season ( 1839 ) . Fig . 14 represents a branch of a Pear , in which one flower ( a ) is in a ...
... apple of the Indian Archipelago . The following very striking illustrations of these facts have , among many others , occurred in the present season ( 1839 ) . Fig . 14 represents a branch of a Pear , in which one flower ( a ) is in a ...
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... Apple tree contains parts which previously existed as the rudiments of five leaves , the points of which subsequently form the five segments of the calyx ; and I have often succeeded in obtaining every gradation of monstrosity of form ...
... Apple tree contains parts which previously existed as the rudiments of five leaves , the points of which subsequently form the five segments of the calyx ; and I have often succeeded in obtaining every gradation of monstrosity of form ...
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