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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... shoots , which must be carefully cut off and not pulled off , 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 ...
... shoots , which must be carefully cut off and not pulled off , 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 ...
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... trees , and they generally produce from one to three shoots , and are by many preferred in this state for general planting , where dwarf trees are required , which , in some instances , are to be recommended ; for SNAGGING OF GRAFTS . 17.
... trees , and they generally produce from one to three shoots , and are by many preferred in this state for general planting , where dwarf trees are required , which , in some instances , are to be recommended ; for SNAGGING OF GRAFTS . 17.
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... shoots will be quite suffi- cient to form the bottom of the tree , and those shoots will often throw out quite wood enough for the tree to support , which will be hereafter explained under the general head of pruning . But I shall now ...
... shoots will be quite suffi- cient to form the bottom of the tree , and those shoots will often throw out quite wood enough for the tree to support , which will be hereafter explained under the general head of pruning . But I shall now ...
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... shoot and cut down the strong one to four or five buds , which will produce quite a sufficient quantity of shoots , and prevent the tree growing strong on one side and weak on the other ; this having been performed , will be all the ...
... shoot and cut down the strong one to four or five buds , which will produce quite a sufficient quantity of shoots , and prevent the tree growing strong on one side and weak on the other ; this having been performed , will be all the ...
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... shoots are alternately formed , and consequently never crowd or injure each other , which is often the case where a tree has been headed down , unless it is carefully pruned ; but this the reader will be more fully furnished with under ...
... shoots are alternately formed , and consequently never crowd or injure each other , which is often the case where a tree has been headed down , unless it is carefully pruned ; but this the reader will be more fully furnished with under ...
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