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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... APPLE . By R. Glendenning , Gardener to the Right Hon . Lord Rolle , Bicton . 12mo . with Plan of Pinery , 58. cloth . THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE ; Or , an Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening upon Physiological Prin ...
... APPLE . By R. Glendenning , Gardener to the Right Hon . Lord Rolle , Bicton . 12mo . with Plan of Pinery , 58. cloth . THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE ; Or , an Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening upon Physiological Prin ...
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... apples , they being of all fruits the most profitable and useful , and I may add the most beautiful , for the bloom in spring is extremely handsome , and the fruit when ripe the same . Indeed it may be denominated with strict propriety ...
... apples , they being of all fruits the most profitable and useful , and I may add the most beautiful , for the bloom in spring is extremely handsome , and the fruit when ripe the same . Indeed it may be denominated with strict propriety ...
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... apple and other trees , in different parts of England , which have been grafted and managed by my own hands till they have been sent to their respective places of des- A tination , together with the opportunity of fruit- ing and ...
... apple and other trees , in different parts of England , which have been grafted and managed by my own hands till they have been sent to their respective places of des- A tination , together with the opportunity of fruit- ing and ...
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... of this work has had the most beneficial results , by causing a vast quantity of fruit trees ( particularly apples ) to be be planted in various parts of the kingdom ; and what is still more satisfactory , the finest sorts PREFACE . vii.
... of this work has had the most beneficial results , by causing a vast quantity of fruit trees ( particularly apples ) to be be planted in various parts of the kingdom ; and what is still more satisfactory , the finest sorts PREFACE . vii.
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... enabled to form a contrast between ancient and modern improvements , and to recommend such portions of each that may lead to benefi- cial results and ultimate success . INDEX . Page Par . On the Propagation of Apples xiv INTRODUCTION .
... enabled to form a contrast between ancient and modern improvements , and to recommend such portions of each that may lead to benefi- cial results and ultimate success . INDEX . Page Par . On the Propagation of Apples xiv INTRODUCTION .
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