A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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Page ix
... seed , or by intermixing the pollen and stigma of two varieties for the purpose of procuring something of an ... seeds for the purpose of procuring improved varieties , care should be had , not only that the seeds be taken from the ...
... seed , or by intermixing the pollen and stigma of two varieties for the purpose of procuring something of an ... seeds for the purpose of procuring improved varieties , care should be had , not only that the seeds be taken from the ...
Page x
... 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 . How this concentration takes place , we are as ...
... 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 . How this concentration takes place , we are as ...
Page xi
... seed . Once deposited there , the particle swells , increases gradually in size , separates into radicle and cotyledons , and finally becomes the embryo , that part which is to give birth , when the seed is sown , to a new in- dividual ...
... seed . Once deposited there , the particle swells , increases gradually in size , separates into radicle and cotyledons , and finally becomes the embryo , that part which is to give birth , when the seed is sown , to a new in- dividual ...
Page xii
... seed , its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents .. Hence it seldom or never has happened that domesticated fruits have had such an origin . We have no varieties raised between the Apple and the Pear , or the ...
... seed , its progeny returns back to the state of one or other of its parents .. Hence it seldom or never has happened that domesticated fruits have had such an origin . We have no varieties raised between the Apple and the Pear , or the ...
Page 19
... crisp . Juice abundant , saccharine , and highly flavoured . A dessert apple from Michaelmas to Christmas . This is a very beautiful little fruit , raised a few years ago from a seed of the old Golden Pippin by C 2 APPLES . 19.
... crisp . Juice abundant , saccharine , and highly flavoured . A dessert apple from Michaelmas to Christmas . This is a very beautiful little fruit , raised a few years ago from a seed of the old Golden Pippin by C 2 APPLES . 19.
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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...