A guide to the orchard and kitchen garden; or, An account of ... fruit and vegetables, ed. by J. Lindley1831 - 80 pages |
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Page 132
... purple next the sun . Flesh deep orange , succulent , and well flavoured . Stone small , orbicular , thick in the middle , and nearly smooth , not separating clean from the flesh . Kernel sweet , like that of the Breda and Turkey . Ripe ...
... purple next the sun . Flesh deep orange , succulent , and well flavoured . Stone small , orbicular , thick in the middle , and nearly smooth , not separating clean from the flesh . Kernel sweet , like that of the Breda and Turkey . Ripe ...
Page 133
... PURPLE . Pom . Franc . 1. p . 36. t . 5. f . 8 . Alexandrian Apricot . Ib . Abricot Angoumois . Duhamel , No. 4. t . 3 . Abricot Violet , of the Luxembourg Cat . Black Apricot . Forsyth , Ed . 3. No. 10 . Fruit nearly spherical , about ...
... PURPLE . Pom . Franc . 1. p . 36. t . 5. f . 8 . Alexandrian Apricot . Ib . Abricot Angoumois . Duhamel , No. 4. t . 3 . Abricot Violet , of the Luxembourg Cat . Black Apricot . Forsyth , Ed . 3. No. 10 . Fruit nearly spherical , about ...
Page 134
... purple on the side next the sun . Flesh pale red , except near the stone , where it is of a deep orange colour , from which it separates . Juice subacid , with a somewhat astringent , but pleasant flavour . Kernel sweet . Ripe the ...
... purple on the side next the sun . Flesh pale red , except near the stone , where it is of a deep orange colour , from which it separates . Juice subacid , with a somewhat astringent , but pleasant flavour . Kernel sweet . Ripe the ...
Page 137
... Purple , and Royal , are those generally budded upon the Muscle ; and although the Moorpark is for the most part budded upon the Common Plum , on which it takes freely , yet I am persuaded that if it were budded upon the Muscle , the ...
... Purple , and Royal , are those generally budded upon the Muscle ; and although the Moorpark is for the most part budded upon the Common Plum , on which it takes freely , yet I am persuaded that if it were budded upon the Muscle , the ...
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... Purple 9 6 Red Masculine · 10 7 Roman · 11 · 4 Royal · 12 8 Royal Persian 2 5 Temple's · 6 13 Turkey - · 13 Masculine 10 Variegated Turkey - 1 Moorpark Orange Peach Apricot · 6 Violet · - 9 7 White Masculine 8 · 14 CHAP . IV . CHERRIES ...
... Purple 9 6 Red Masculine · 10 7 Roman · 11 · 4 Royal · 12 8 Royal Persian 2 5 Temple's · 6 13 Turkey - · 13 Masculine 10 Variegated Turkey - 1 Moorpark Orange Peach Apricot · 6 Violet · - 9 7 White Masculine 8 · 14 CHAP . IV . CHERRIES ...
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Page ix - It is probable that it was originally due to accident, and also that it was still mere chance which continued to operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first stamped on any species by Nature ; but all know that this tendency does exist, and in a most remarkable degree in many species. There is in all beings a disposition to deviate from their original nature when cultivated, or even in a wild...
Page 507 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, DEFECTS, AND INJURIES, | IN ALL KINDS OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES." WITH AN ACCOUNT OF | A PARTICULAR METHOD OF CURE, | PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.
Page 575 - ... sowing of seed for general crops until June or July. If a small quantity of each esteemed variety be sown two or three times in these months, they will produce a plentiful supply for use in autumn and the early part of winter. One ounce of good Endive-seed will produce about five thousand plants. When the plants...
Page x - The power of procuring intermediate varieties, by the intermixture of the pollen and stigma of two different parents, is, however, that which most deserves consideration. We all know that hybrid plants are constantly produced in every garden, and that improvements of the most remarkable kind are yearly occurring in consequence.
Page xiii - Physiologists know that whatever tends to cause a rapid diffusion of the sap and secretions of any plant, causes also the formation of leaf buds instead of flower buds ; and that whatever on the contrary tends to cause an accumulation of sap and secretions, has the effect of producing flower buds in abundance ;" so that a flower bud is often only a contracted branch.
Page 371 - Cones, egg-shaped, solitary, broadest near the base, and tapering to a point, three inches and a half long, and two inches and a half...
Page xii - It seems that cross fertilisation will not take place at all, or very rarely, between different species, unless these species are nearly related to each other; and that the offspring of the two distinct species is itself sterile, or if it possesses the power of multiplying itself by seed, its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents.
Page 466 - York, some time in the end of last century. It remained barren several years, till, during a violent thunder-storm, the whole trunk was struck to the earth and destroyed. The root afterwards threw out a number of vigorous shoots, all of which were allowed to remain, and finally produced fruit. It is, therefore, to be presumed that the stock of the barren kind was the parent of this. Trees were sent to Mr.
Page xi - ... destined by nature for this service, into a little opening in the integuments of the ovulum or young 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 individual. " Such being the mode in which the pollen influences the stigma and subsequently the seed, a practical consequence of great importance necessarily follows, viz. that...
Page 508 - ... till the whole is covered over with it, letting it remain for half an hour, to absorb the moisture ; then apply more powder, rubbing it on gently with the hand, and repeating the application of the powder till the whole plaster becomes a dry smooth surface.