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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... proper to , or naturalised in , Great Britain , consists of a series of Portraits of Animals characteristic of the different races . In the year 1832 , a grant by authority of Government , was made from the funds of the Board of ...
... proper to , or naturalised in , Great Britain , consists of a series of Portraits of Animals characteristic of the different races . In the year 1832 , a grant by authority of Government , was made from the funds of the Board of ...
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... PROPER FOR FORCING . ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR FORCING CHOICE PLANTS , & C . THEREIN . TOGETHER WITH FULL IN- STRUCTIONS FOR GROWING MELONS , EARLY STRAWBERRIES , & c . THE WHOLE WRITTEN FROM PRACTICE , BY GEORGE BLISS . SECOND EDITION ...
... PROPER FOR FORCING . ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR FORCING CHOICE PLANTS , & C . THEREIN . TOGETHER WITH FULL IN- STRUCTIONS FOR GROWING MELONS , EARLY STRAWBERRIES , & c . THE WHOLE WRITTEN FROM PRACTICE , BY GEORGE BLISS . SECOND EDITION ...
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... proper Sizes Different varieties of Pines , with Observations relative to their nature and culture Method of making the Bark - bed , its general Management and Utility Sorts of fuel for Fire - heat 159 7 • 162 8 164 · · Regulation of ...
... proper Sizes Different varieties of Pines , with Observations relative to their nature and culture Method of making the Bark - bed , its general Management and Utility Sorts of fuel for Fire - heat 159 7 • 162 8 164 · · Regulation of ...
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... proper for Forcing , including Grape Vines Proper Seasons and Methods of Planting trees for Forcing Narrow Glass - houses for Forcing principally by Fire - heat , or Hot Water Forcing Frames , for forcing Fruit trees by Bark- bed heat ...
... proper for Forcing , including Grape Vines Proper Seasons and Methods of Planting trees for Forcing Narrow Glass - houses for Forcing principally by Fire - heat , or Hot Water Forcing Frames , for forcing Fruit trees by Bark- bed heat ...
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... proper for growing Melons 261 47 Preparing dung , & c . , for the Hotbeds , for raising Melons 262 48 Seed proper for Sowing 263 49 Observations on raising Melons in different ways , the times for Sowing the Seed , with re- marks ...
... proper for growing Melons 261 47 Preparing dung , & c . , for the Hotbeds , for raising Melons 262 48 Seed proper for Sowing 263 49 Observations on raising Melons in different ways , the times for Sowing the Seed , with re- marks ...
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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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