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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... feet wide , leaving two feet between each bed for a path , to be able to walk between them to weed and keep the beds clean , as that is most material to all young seedlings ; you take the mould out about one inch deep with the spade ...
... feet wide , leaving two feet between each bed for a path , to be able to walk between them to weed and keep the beds clean , as that is most material to all young seedlings ; you take the mould out about one inch deep with the spade ...
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... feet ten inches , or three feet row from row ; but that I think un- necessary , as two feet six inches is quite suffi- cient to get between them for all purposes , and quite room enough for them to grow so long as they ought to remain ...
... feet ten inches , or three feet row from row ; but that I think un- necessary , as two feet six inches is quite suffi- cient to get between them for all purposes , and quite room enough for them to grow so long as they ought to remain ...
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... or six shoots . The trees at this age being generally about three or four feet high in the stem , and commonly called half standards , those wishing to plant half standards , cannot plant them at a better age , APPLES IN NURSERY . 19.
... or six shoots . The trees at this age being generally about three or four feet high in the stem , and commonly called half standards , those wishing to plant half standards , cannot plant them at a better age , APPLES IN NURSERY . 19.
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... feet high , and make tolerable good standards the second year , you seldom find many ; there- fore after taking away ... feet six inches high , and some six feet , but trees are none the better for being too high in the stem . After the ...
... feet high , and make tolerable good standards the second year , you seldom find many ; there- fore after taking away ... feet six inches high , and some six feet , but trees are none the better for being too high in the stem . After the ...
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... , the distance I should recommend would be about twelve feet apart , and then by keeping them properly pruned , they would have plenty ། of room to grow and receive the nourishment of the 24 CULTIVATION OF DWARF APPLES .
... , the distance I should recommend would be about twelve feet apart , and then by keeping them properly pruned , they would have plenty ། of room to grow and receive the nourishment of the 24 CULTIVATION OF DWARF APPLES .
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