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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... sufficient for casual use , and it includes a chronological list of architects with their principal edifices , as well as a classified catalogue of works on the subject : an index completes the value of the book as one of reference ...
... sufficient for casual use , and it includes a chronological list of architects with their principal edifices , as well as a classified catalogue of works on the subject : an index completes the value of the book as one of reference ...
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... sufficient quantity of horse - dung ( I mean the clean droppings from the horse , quite clear from straw , for it is ... sufficiently moist to be able to mix it about easy in the hands ; but not too moist , otherwise it would slip off ...
... sufficient quantity of horse - dung ( I mean the clean droppings from the horse , quite clear from straw , for it is ... sufficiently moist to be able to mix it about easy in the hands ; but not too moist , otherwise it would slip off ...
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... having put his clay into something to carry it with him , he must take a small piece of clay sufficient to cover the whole of the incision , and to come about half an inch above the top of the stock , in order that TYING OF GRAFTS . 13.
... having put his clay into something to carry it with him , he must take a small piece of clay sufficient to cover the whole of the incision , and to come about half an inch above the top of the stock , in order that TYING OF GRAFTS . 13.
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... sufficiently deep , that when it is put on the stock , it will enclose it all round alike . After the dabber follows another boy , called the closer ; he follows with a pot of dry ashes , or dust , to rub his hands with to keep them ...
... sufficiently deep , that when it is put on the stock , it will enclose it all round alike . After the dabber follows another boy , called the closer ; he follows with a pot of dry ashes , or dust , to rub his hands with to keep them ...
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... sufficient till another time ; for if you take them off too soon , and hot . dry weather should ensue , they are very apt to wither up ; if the weather should continue dry , and your grafts grow too long , you MANAGEMENT OF GRAFTS . 15.
... sufficient till another time ; for if you take them off too soon , and hot . dry weather should ensue , they are very apt to wither up ; if the weather should continue dry , and your grafts grow too long , you MANAGEMENT OF GRAFTS . 15.
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