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It should therefore be always an object with a gardener , in selecting a variety to become the parent of a new sort , to stimulate that variety by every means in his power to produce the largest and the most fully ripened fruit that it ...
It should therefore be always an object with a gardener , in selecting a variety to become the parent of a new sort , to stimulate that variety by every means in his power to produce the largest and the most fully ripened fruit that it ...
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produced in every garden , and that improvements of the most remarkable kind are yearly occurring in consequence . Experiments are , however , it may be supposed , sometimes made without the operator being exactly aware either of the ...
produced in every garden , and that improvements of the most remarkable kind are yearly occurring in consequence . Experiments are , however , it may be supposed , sometimes made without the operator being exactly aware either of the ...
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All these practices are intended to produce exactly the same effect by dif ferent ways . Physiologists know that whatever tends to cause a ... accumulation of sap and secretions , has the effect of producing flower buds in abundance .
All these practices are intended to produce exactly the same effect by dif ferent ways . Physiologists know that whatever tends to cause a ... accumulation of sap and secretions , has the effect of producing flower buds in abundance .
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This produces an accumulation of proper juice ; and flower buds , or fertility , are the result . ... flows along the alburnum into the buds with nearly as much rapidity as ever , so that the accumulation is but imperfectly produced .
This produces an accumulation of proper juice ; and flower buds , or fertility , are the result . ... flows along the alburnum into the buds with nearly as much rapidity as ever , so that the accumulation is but imperfectly produced .
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One of the objects of training is to produce the same effect . ... the less effect is produced by the latter ; and , on the contrary , in proportion to the constitutional difference between the stock and the scion , is the effect of the ...
One of the objects of training is to produce the same effect . ... the less effect is produced by the latter ; and , on the contrary , in proportion to the constitutional difference between the stock and the scion , is the effect of the ...
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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...