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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3d Edition ( 1839 ) , 1 vol . foolscap 8vo . pp . 474 , with Four Plates , 9s . cloth . CONTENTS . Introduction ; on Roots ; on Stems : on Leaves ; on the Seed ; on the Classification of Plants ; on Sap ; on Cambium and the ...
3d Edition ( 1839 ) , 1 vol . foolscap 8vo . pp . 474 , with Four Plates , 9s . cloth . CONTENTS . Introduction ; on Roots ; on Stems : on Leaves ; on the Seed ; on the Classification of Plants ; on Sap ; on Cambium and the ...
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... trim up the stock clean at the bottom , but be sure to leave buds to break from the top , then cut off the top , leaving the stock long enough to be about sixteen or eighteen inches out of the ground when planted ; the stocks should ...
... trim up the stock clean at the bottom , but be sure to leave buds to break from the top , then cut off the top , leaving the stock long enough to be about sixteen or eighteen inches out of the ground when planted ; the stocks should ...
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... for I have grafted apples with success in the last week in April , when the stocks have been out in full leaf ; but this is a dangerous practice , for if the weather sets in very dry , it will so dry up the juices of the stocks that ...
... for I have grafted apples with success in the last week in April , when the stocks have been out in full leaf ; but this is a dangerous practice , for if the weather sets in very dry , it will so dry up the juices of the stocks that ...
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... for by pulling them off , you leave holes in the stock which the insect is very fond of getting into , and of course the bottom is the most dangerous part of the tree to get the canker in ; therefore they should be cut off as clean ...
... for by pulling them off , you leave holes in the stock which the insect is very fond of getting into , and of course the bottom is the most dangerous part of the tree to get the canker in ; therefore they should be cut off as clean ...
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a stem of the graft , which it is very apt to do if your knife has a bad edge ; and by making those cuts in the summer season , it leaves a place where the insect is very fond of getting in and causing the tree to canker .
a stem of the graft , which it is very apt to do if your knife has a bad edge ; and by making those cuts in the summer season , it leaves a place where the insect is very fond of getting in and causing the tree to canker .
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| 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 |
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