The Fruit Grower's Instructor: Being a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Treatment of Fruit Trees: to which is Added, Full Instructions for Forcing, with a List and Descriptive Account of All the Best Fruits Cultivated in Great Britain; Also Directions for Hothouse Building, with the Most Approved Modes of Heating by Fire and Hot Water ... The Whole Written from Practice |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 72
Page 8
PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE CULTURE OF THE PINE APPLE . By R. Glendenning , Gardener to the Right Hon . Lord Rolle , Bicton . 12mo . with Plan of Pínery , 58. cloth . THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE ; Or , an Attempt to Explain the Principal ...
PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE CULTURE OF THE PINE APPLE . By R. Glendenning , Gardener to the Right Hon . Lord Rolle , Bicton . 12mo . with Plan of Pínery , 58. cloth . THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE ; Or , an Attempt to Explain the Principal ...
Page v
This work will be confined to that profitable and beautiful part of horticulture , the most leading fruits cultivated in this country ; among which I shall treat largely on apples , they being of all fruits the most profitable and ...
This work will be confined to that profitable and beautiful part of horticulture , the most leading fruits cultivated in this country ; among which I shall treat largely on apples , they being of all fruits the most profitable and ...
Page vi
I should not speak so confidently , were it not from a long series of practice ; for when I say there are thousands , şay and tens of thousands of apple and other trees , in different parts of England , which have been grafted and ...
I should not speak so confidently , were it not from a long series of practice ; for when I say there are thousands , şay and tens of thousands of apple and other trees , in different parts of England , which have been grafted and ...
Page vii
I now feel the greatest gratification in knowing that the first edition of this work has had the most beneficial results , by causing a vast quantity of fruit trees ( particularly apples ) to be be planted in various parts of the ...
I now feel the greatest gratification in knowing that the first edition of this work has had the most beneficial results , by causing a vast quantity of fruit trees ( particularly apples ) to be be planted in various parts of the ...
Page xv
On the Propagation of Apples 1 1 Quartering Stocks 4 Grafting 7 3 Tying Grafts 12 Management of Grafts 15 5 Snagging of Grafts 16 Pruning and Management while in the Nursery . 17 7 Observations before the general cultivation of Apples ...
On the Propagation of Apples 1 1 Quartering Stocks 4 Grafting 7 3 Tying Grafts 12 Management of Grafts 15 5 Snagging of Grafts 16 Pruning and Management while in the Nursery . 17 7 Observations before the general cultivation of Apples ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appear apple bark bark bed bearer bearing become beginning Black bloom bottom cause cloth colour Containing continued convenient covered crops cultivation deep directed dung early earth Edition feet fine fire flavour forcing house four frame front fruit garden give glasses grafting grape green ground grow growth handsome heat HISTORY hotbed hothouse inches intended juice keep late leaves light likewise LIST March melons middle moderate nature necessary nectarines OBSERVATIONS particularly peach pear perfection pinery pines Pippin plants plum pots practice present principal produce proper pruning raised recommend remain removed require rich ripe ripens roots Royal season seed September shoots soil sorts spring standards strong succession sufficient summer trees vines vols wall weather White winter wood yellow young
Popular passages
Page 7 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Page 6 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Page 6 - Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports ; a Complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, &c. By DP ELAINE. With above 600 Woodcuts (20 from Designs by JOHN LEECH).
Page 6 - Britannicum abridged : Containing the Hardy Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain, Native and Foreign, Scientifically and Popularly Described ; with their Propagation, Culture, and Uses in the Arts ; and with Engravings of nearly all the Species.
Page 8 - By David Low, Esq., FRSE, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, etc.; author of "Elements of Practical Agriculture, "etc.
Page 8 - CROCKER'S ELEMENTS OF LAND SURVEYING. Fifth Edition, corrected throughout, and considerably improved and modernized, by TG BUNT, Land Surveyor, Bristol. To which are added, TABLES OF SIX-FIGURE LOGARITHMS, &c., superintended by RICHARD FARLEY, of the Nautical Almanac Establishment. Post 8vo.
Page 7 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine : Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to Sex, and to the different Epochs of Life; with numerous approved Formulae of the Medicines recommended.
Page 7 - Boy's Country Book : Being the Real Life of a Country Boy, written by himself ; exhibiting all the Amusements, Pleasures, and Pursuits of Children in the Country. New Edition ; with 40 Woodcuts. Fcp. 8vo. price 6s. Howitt. — The Rural Life of England.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Fruit Grower's Instructor: Being a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Treatment of Fruit Trees: to which is Added, Full Instructions for Forcing, with a List and Descriptive Account of All the Best Fruits Cultivated in Great Britain; Also Directions for Hothouse Building, with the ... |
| Author | George Bliss |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Ridgeway, 1849 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |