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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You must open a hole at least three feet square and three feet deep , bring in some soil bordering on clay , and put at bottom ( which will keep cool ) about one foot thick , then fill up the other two feet with rich loam , and plant ...
You must open a hole at least three feet square and three feet deep , bring in some soil bordering on clay , and put at bottom ( which will keep cool ) about one foot thick , then fill up the other two feet with rich loam , and plant ...
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... very fine flavour , a great bearer , and will keep through the winter . ( 42 . ) — Devonshire Whitesour ; this is a very early summer table apple , of a whitish yellow colour ; it has fine melting flesh , with very rich juice ...
... very fine flavour , a great bearer , and will keep through the winter . ( 42 . ) — Devonshire Whitesour ; this is a very early summer table apple , of a whitish yellow colour ; it has fine melting flesh , with very rich juice ...
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beautiful pale pink ; it is full of fine rich juice , and good for all purposes ; the bloom is not excelled by any ; it is nearly as handsome as a rose ; it is further to be recommended to plant as dwarfs in the shrubbery , for its ...
beautiful pale pink ; it is full of fine rich juice , and good for all purposes ; the bloom is not excelled by any ; it is nearly as handsome as a rose ; it is further to be recommended to plant as dwarfs in the shrubbery , for its ...
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Present de Malines ; this pear is suited either for the wall or standard ; in form much like Williams's Bonchretien ; smooth skin , and when ripe of a yellow colour ; the flesh is melting , and of a rich musky flavour , it is generally ...
Present de Malines ; this pear is suited either for the wall or standard ; in form much like Williams's Bonchretien ; smooth skin , and when ripe of a yellow colour ; the flesh is melting , and of a rich musky flavour , it is generally ...
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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 ; it would be more generally ...
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 ; it would be more generally ...
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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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