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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... Leaves ; on Sap ; on Cambium and the peculiar Juices of Plants ; on the Action of Light and Heat on Plants ; on the Naturalization of Plants ; on the Action of the Atmosphere on Plants ; on the Action of Water on Plants ; on the ...
... Leaves ; on Sap ; on Cambium and the peculiar Juices of Plants ; on the Action of Light and Heat on Plants ; on the Naturalization of Plants ; on the Action of the Atmosphere on Plants ; on the Action of Water on Plants ; on the ...
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... leave buds to break from the top , then cut off the top , leaving the stock long enough to be about six- teen or eighteen inches out of the ground when planted ; the stocks should remain two years , and then they will be in good order ...
... leave buds to break from the top , then cut off the top , leaving the stock long enough to be about six- teen or eighteen inches out of the ground when planted ; the stocks should remain two years , and then they will be in good order ...
Page 9
... leaf ; but this is a dangerous practice , for if the wea- ther sets in very dry , it will so dry up the juices of the stocks that many cannot be expected to grow , and what do will be very weak , and scarcely ever make handsome ...
... leaf ; but this is a dangerous practice , for if the wea- ther sets in very dry , it will so dry up the juices of the stocks that many cannot be expected to grow , and what do will be very weak , and scarcely ever make handsome ...
Page 15
... 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 the canker in ; therefore they should be cut off as clean as possible , and when the grafts ...
... 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 the canker in ; therefore they should be cut off as clean as possible , and when the grafts ...
Page 17
... leaves a place where the insect is very fond of getting in and causing the tree to canker . It is necessary your knife should be strong , and held very tight in the hand : after a little practice , if your stocks are not very strong ...
... leaves a place where the insect is very fond of getting in and causing the tree to canker . It is necessary your knife should be strong , and held very tight in the hand : after a little practice , if your stocks are not very strong ...
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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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