A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... hollow balls or bodies ; their cavity is filled with fluid , in which swim particles of a figure varying from spherical to oblong , and having an apparently spontaneous motion . The stigma is composed of very lax tissue , the ...
... hollow balls or bodies ; their cavity is filled with fluid , in which swim particles of a figure varying from spherical to oblong , and having an apparently spontaneous motion . The stigma is composed of very lax tissue , the ...
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... hollow . Stalk rather short , not protruding beyond the base . Skin pale greenish yellow , tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh greenish yellow , tender . Juice saccharine , with a mixture of acid , and a very slight per- fume ...
... hollow . Stalk rather short , not protruding beyond the base . Skin pale greenish yellow , tinged with orange on the sunny side . Flesh greenish yellow , tender . Juice saccharine , with a mixture of acid , and a very slight per- fume ...
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... 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 side next the sun , but less intense on ...
... 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 side next the sun , but less intense on ...
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... hollow , surrounded by very minute plaits , generally closed by the segments of the calyx . Stalk short , slender , in a deep cavity . Skin bright deep yellow , somewhat scabrous , with a tinge of green , sprinkled with numerous grey ...
... hollow , surrounded by very minute plaits , generally closed by the segments of the calyx . Stalk short , slender , in a deep cavity . Skin bright deep yellow , somewhat scabrous , with a tinge of green , sprinkled with numerous grey ...
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... hollow open eye , wholly destitute of angles . Stalk short , slender . Skin bright yellow , deeply tinged with red on the sunny side , with many indistinct white spots . Flesh yellowish , firm , juicy , and rich , nearly as highly ...
... hollow open eye , wholly destitute of angles . Stalk short , slender . Skin bright yellow , deeply tinged with red on the sunny side , with many indistinct white spots . Flesh yellowish , firm , juicy , and rich , nearly as highly ...
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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...