A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... ripened specimens should be those that supply the seed . A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are con- centrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity ...
... ripened specimens should be those that supply the seed . A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are con- centrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity ...
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... ripen mostly in August , and are usually eaten during harvest . Those of the second flowering succeed the first , and may be brought to table till the end of October ; they are quite as good as the first , but are not bigger than a ...
... ripen mostly in August , and are usually eaten during harvest . Those of the second flowering succeed the first , and may be brought to table till the end of October ; they are quite as good as the first , but are not bigger than a ...
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... ripen very well , and keep till Novem- ber . This is eaten raw ; but if roasted it acquires a delicate and sweet flavour ... ripened . The blossoms are produced in corymbs of twelve or fifteen flowers in the first season of blos- soming ...
... ripen very well , and keep till Novem- ber . This is eaten raw ; but if roasted it acquires a delicate and sweet flavour ... ripened . The blossoms are produced in corymbs of twelve or fifteen flowers in the first season of blos- soming ...
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... ripened , marbled and streaked with red on the sunny side , like the Nonesuch . Flesh pale yellowish white , tender . Juice rather thin , smart , slightly saccharine , and of a very pleasant flavour . A culinary apple in October and ...
... ripened , marbled and streaked with red on the sunny side , like the Nonesuch . Flesh pale yellowish white , tender . Juice rather thin , smart , slightly saccharine , and of a very pleasant flavour . A culinary apple in October and ...
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... ripening the end of October , but not in perfection after having been gathered a few weeks . This and the yellow ... ripen- ing in October , and continuing till Christmas . 40. STRIPED HOLLAND PIPPIN . Hort . Soc . Cat . No. 1075 . Fruit ...
... ripening the end of October , but not in perfection after having been gathered a few weeks . This and the yellow ... ripen- ing in October , and continuing till Christmas . 40. STRIPED HOLLAND PIPPIN . Hort . Soc . Cat . No. 1075 . Fruit ...
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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...