A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... colour , but it has a tender shell ; one side is usually straight , and the other rounded . This sort is budded upon ... coloured , porous , and tender ; the kernel plump , rich , and sweet . 5. AMANDE SULTANA . - This resembles the ...
... colour , but it has a tender shell ; one side is usually straight , and the other rounded . This sort is budded upon ... coloured , porous , and tender ; the kernel plump , rich , and sweet . 5. AMANDE SULTANA . - This resembles the ...
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... coloured imbedded specks , and slightly tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh white , very crisp and tender . Juice ... colour when fully ripe , intermixed with a little bright green , and sprinkled with numerous spots of the same ...
... coloured imbedded specks , and slightly tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh white , very crisp and tender . Juice ... colour when fully ripe , intermixed with a little bright green , and sprinkled with numerous spots of the same ...
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... colour of the corolla is white , tinged with rose - coloured stains , especially on the edge of the petals . Mons . Thouin very justly remarks , " that the dense , dark green , shining foliage during three fourths of the year ...
... colour of the corolla is white , tinged with rose - coloured stains , especially on the edge of the petals . Mons . Thouin very justly remarks , " that the dense , dark green , shining foliage during three fourths of the year ...
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... colour , interspersed with several grey russetty specks on the sunny side , and full of mi- nute , pearl - coloured , imbedded specks . Flesh pale bright gold colour , crisp . Juice rich , saccharine , of the most delicious flavour of ...
... colour , interspersed with several grey russetty specks on the sunny side , and full of mi- nute , pearl - coloured , imbedded specks . Flesh pale bright gold colour , crisp . Juice rich , saccharine , of the most delicious flavour of ...
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... colour on the shaded side , with a few green specks imbedded beneath the surface ; on the sunny side , of a bright gold colour . Flesh yellowish white , very tender . Juice a little sac- charine , with a slight acid and a little perfume ...
... colour on the shaded side , with a few green specks imbedded beneath the surface ; on the sunny side , of a bright gold colour . Flesh yellowish white , very tender . Juice a little sac- charine , with a slight acid and a little perfume ...
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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...