A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... cavity , and surrounded by a few small plaits . Stalk about an inch long , inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity . Skin pale green on the shaded side , sometimes broken by a silvery appearance of the epidermis ; on the sunny side ...
... cavity , and surrounded by a few small plaits . Stalk about an inch long , inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity . Skin pale green on the shaded side , sometimes broken by a silvery appearance of the epidermis ; on the sunny side ...
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... cavity , even with the base . Skin pale yellow , with numerous small pearl - coloured imbedded specks , and slightly tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh white , very crisp and tender . Juice plentiful , saccharine , and highly ...
... cavity , even with the base . Skin pale yellow , with numerous small pearl - coloured imbedded specks , and slightly tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh white , very crisp and tender . Juice plentiful , saccharine , and highly ...
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... cavity . Skin pale red , but of a deep colour , and shaded with deeper streaks on the sunny side . Flesh white , slightly tinged with red next the core . Juice not plentiful , but pretty well flavoured . Ripe in August and September ...
... cavity . Skin pale red , but of a deep colour , and shaded with deeper streaks on the sunny side . Flesh white , slightly tinged with red next the core . Juice not plentiful , but pretty well flavoured . Ripe in August and September ...
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... cavity . Skin greenish yellow , thickly sprinkled with yellow russetty spots , and nearly covered with a bright red . Flesh yellow , firm . Juice not plentiful , but sweet , and of a very good flavour . Ripe the end of August and ...
... cavity . Skin greenish yellow , thickly sprinkled with yellow russetty spots , and nearly covered with a bright red . Flesh yellow , firm . Juice not plentiful , but sweet , and of a very good flavour . Ripe the end of August and ...
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... cavity . Eye placed in the bottom of a hollow , scooped out like a funnel , and larger than that in which the stalk is placed , the divisions of the calyx remaining in part when the fruit is ripe . Skin of a very deep , dull red on the ...
... cavity . Eye placed in the bottom of a hollow , scooped out like a funnel , and larger than that in which the stalk is placed , the divisions of the calyx remaining in part when the fruit is ripe . Skin of a very deep , dull red on the ...
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apex apple from November August Bergamot Beurré Black branches brown buds bunches calyx cavity Chiswick colour crown cultivated deep purple deeply inserted dessert apple Duhamel Early espalier excellent Eye small Flesh firm Flesh pale Flesh white Flesh yellowish Flowers Forsyth Frontignan Fruit large Fruit middle-sized garden glands greenish yellow half an inch Herefordshire high flavoured Hort Horticultural inch long inches and three Juice plentiful juicy Langley Lindl melting Mignonne Miller Muscadine Muscat of Alexandria Nectarines Nonpareil Nursery Catalogues oblong open standard oval Parmain Pavie Peach Pear Pippin plaits plants pruning purple quarters in diameter Quince rich Ripe the beginning Ripe the end Ripe the middle ripened round roundish russet russetty saccharine Scarlet Sea Kale seed shaded side shoots slender sorts specks Stalk an inch Stalk half Stalk short stone sugary sunny side suture sweet three inches tinged Trans tree Twickenham Violet wall
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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...