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Thus , the male parent of the Downton Strawberry was the Old Black , the female a kind of Scarlet ; in Coe's Golden Drop Plum , the father was the Yellow Magnum Bonum , the mother the Green Gage ; and in the Elton Cherry the White Heart ...
Thus , the male parent of the Downton Strawberry was the Old Black , the female a kind of Scarlet ; in Coe's Golden Drop Plum , the father was the Yellow Magnum Bonum , the mother the Green Gage ; and in the Elton Cherry the White Heart ...
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Skin pale , greenish yellow , spotted with innumerable black and green specks ; on the sunny side very distinctly dashed with a vivid carmine over a ground spotted with the same colour , only more faint .
Skin pale , greenish yellow , spotted with innumerable black and green specks ; on the sunny side very distinctly dashed with a vivid carmine over a ground spotted with the same colour , only more faint .
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Skin yellowish green on the shaded side and next the eye ; the sunny side being covered with a handsome red , having many black dots , in the manner of an ordinary Golden Reinette . Flesh yellowish next the skin , green next the core ...
Skin yellowish green on the shaded side and next the eye ; the sunny side being covered with a handsome red , having many black dots , in the manner of an ordinary Golden Reinette . Flesh yellowish next the skin , green next the core ...
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Skin yellow , shaded and streaked with light and deeper red , with now and then a few black specks : these , however , are more to be attributed to a crowded state of old trees ...
Skin yellow , shaded and streaked with light and deeper red , with now and then a few black specks : these , however , are more to be attributed to a crowded state of old trees ...
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Black Apricot . Forsyth , Ed . 3. No. 10 . Fruit nearly spherical , about five inches in circumference . Suture deep , extending from the base to its apex . Skin covered with a very fine velvety down K 3 APRICOTS . 133.
Black Apricot . Forsyth , Ed . 3. No. 10 . Fruit nearly spherical , about five inches in circumference . Suture deep , extending from the base to its apex . Skin covered with a very fine velvety down K 3 APRICOTS . 133.
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Page 509 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, DEFECTS, AND INJURIES, | IN ALL KINDS OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES." WITH AN ACCOUNT OF | A PARTICULAR METHOD OF CURE, | PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.
Page 577 - ... sowing of seed for general crops until June or July. If a small quantity of each esteemed variety be sown two or three times in these months, they will produce a plentiful supply for use in autumn and the early part of winter. One ounce of good Endive-seed will produce about five thousand plants. When the plants...