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 |
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... beginning and ending with the subject it relates to , without being con- fused with extraneous matter ; and as the index refers to paragraphs as well as pages , any subject may be found with the greatest facility . I now feel the ...
... beginning and ending with the subject it relates to , without being con- fused with extraneous matter ; and as the index refers to paragraphs as well as pages , any subject may be found with the greatest facility . I now feel the ...
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... beginning of March , as the weather may suit , you may sow your seed in beds or in drills ; but beds are best , for when you have taken your mould out the proper depth , which should be about an inch , you will be able , when you have ...
... beginning of March , as the weather may suit , you may sow your seed in beds or in drills ; but beds are best , for when you have taken your mould out the proper depth , which should be about an inch , you will be able , when you have ...
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... beginning nearly at the top of the slice , letting your knife slope gradually into the stock . If your stock is much larger than your scion , do not make your slice too deep into the stock , in order that your scion may touch the inner ...
... beginning nearly at the top of the slice , letting your knife slope gradually into the stock . If your stock is much larger than your scion , do not make your slice too deep into the stock , in order that your scion may touch the inner ...
Page 74
... beginning of January.` 8. Colmar , is a fine rich sweet pear ; it is best adapted for the wall , being a bad bearer as a standard ; it is in perfection about January . 9. Virgoleuse ; this is a fine melting pear , full of rich juice ...
... beginning of January.` 8. Colmar , is a fine rich sweet pear ; it is best adapted for the wall , being a bad bearer as a standard ; it is in perfection about January . 9. Virgoleuse ; this is a fine melting pear , full of rich juice ...
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... beginning of October . 12. Saint Catharine ; this is a good plum and is a good bearer ; it is ripe in September , and will hang a long time on the tree . 13. Winesour ; this plum is much esteemed for preserving ; it is a late plum , and ...
... beginning of October . 12. Saint Catharine ; this is a good plum and is a good bearer ; it is ripe in September , and will hang a long time on the tree . 13. Winesour ; this plum is much esteemed for preserving ; it is a late plum , and ...
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2d Edition apricot autumn bark bed bark-bed bearer berries Black black grape bloom bottom cherry cherry house cloth colour convenient crops cultivation dung dwarf earth ENCYCLOPÆDIA EXPLANATORY LIST fire flavour flues foolscap 8vo forcing house frame fruit trees garden glasses Golden Pippin grafting grape green grow growth handsome heat HISTORY hot water hotbed hothouse inches Ischia J. C. Loudon keep likewise mazagan melons moderate Muscadel Muscadine nature necessary nectarines particularly peach peaches and nectarines pear pinery pines pipes plants Plates plum plunge the pots post 8vo practice produce proper pruning rafters raised Regiment require rich juice ripe ripens early ripens late roots Royal scion season seed September soil sorts strawberries strong succession suckers sufficient table apple Thomas Keightley three feet Vignette Titles vines vols wall weather White William Carleton William Howitt winter yellow
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