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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... present Century . By Samuel Laing , Esq . 2d Edit . ( 1842 ) , 8vo . 16s . cloth . " The quantity of matter contained in a single volume would outweigh a dozen or twenty common travel - books , and exceeds that of any single work which ...
... present Century . By Samuel Laing , Esq . 2d Edit . ( 1842 ) , 8vo . 16s . cloth . " The quantity of matter contained in a single volume would outweigh a dozen or twenty common travel - books , and exceeds that of any single work which ...
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... present work , in consequence of its forming a digest of all the very valuable information embraced by the respective " Systems " of these distinguished geographers ,, yet the variety and extent of original matter which has been ...
... present work , in consequence of its forming a digest of all the very valuable information embraced by the respective " Systems " of these distinguished geographers ,, yet the variety and extent of original matter which has been ...
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... Present Time - 1789 to 1840 . Appendia . - Containing a general View of the principal Events from the Foundation of the Holy Alliance till the last French Revolu- tion ( 1830 ) . * Each volume contains a Table of Synchronal Events ...
... Present Time - 1789 to 1840 . Appendia . - Containing a general View of the principal Events from the Foundation of the Holy Alliance till the last French Revolu- tion ( 1830 ) . * Each volume contains a Table of Synchronal Events ...
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... Present Time . By Sir Harris Nicolas , K.C. M.G. Second Edition , corrected throughout . 1 vol . foolscap 8vo . with Vignette Title , 6s . cloth . THE STATESMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND . With an Introductory Treatise on the ...
... Present Time . By Sir Harris Nicolas , K.C. M.G. Second Edition , corrected throughout . 1 vol . foolscap 8vo . with Vignette Title , 6s . cloth . THE STATESMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND . With an Introductory Treatise on the ...
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... present Elementary History it is the object of the author to avoid all these faults . The work is brought within the most moderate compass , and nothing is introduced into it that is not likely to prove both intelligible and interesting ...
... present Elementary History it is the object of the author to avoid all these faults . The work is brought within the most moderate compass , and nothing is introduced into it that is not likely to prove both intelligible and interesting ...
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