A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... smooth shell , containing a kernel of little value in comparison with some others . It is the most common in France , and the young plants from it are used for stocks to bud peaches upon . 2. AMANDE DOUCE À COQUE DURE . — The nuts of ...
... smooth shell , containing a kernel of little value in comparison with some others . It is the most common in France , and the young plants from it are used for stocks to bud peaches upon . 2. AMANDE DOUCE À COQUE DURE . — The nuts of ...
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... smooth and shining ; on the side next the sun bright yellow , tinged a little with orange , which gradually fades away on the shaded side into a pale lemon colour , and marked throughout with pale scattered dots . Flesh whitish , firm ...
... smooth and shining ; on the side next the sun bright yellow , tinged a little with orange , which gradually fades away on the shaded side into a pale lemon colour , and marked throughout with pale scattered dots . Flesh whitish , firm ...
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... smooth , with a few faint streaks of red on the sunny side , and covered with a white bloom . Flesh snow - white , often trans- parent in part , tender , juicy , crisp , very pleasant and delicate . Ripe in August , and will keep good ...
... smooth , with a few faint streaks of red on the sunny side , and covered with a white bloom . Flesh snow - white , often trans- parent in part , tender , juicy , crisp , very pleasant and delicate . Ripe in August , and will keep good ...
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... hollow . Stalk an inch long , slender , about half inserted in a funnel - shaped cavity . Skin smooth , pale orange yellow , generally tinged with red next the sun , and faintly streaked with the same APPLES . 31 Horse-radish.
... hollow . Stalk an inch long , slender , about half inserted in a funnel - shaped cavity . Skin smooth , pale orange yellow , generally tinged with red next the sun , and faintly streaked with the same APPLES . 31 Horse-radish.
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... thickened like that of the Kerry Pippin . Skin perfectly smooth , of a clear bright yellow , without any blush of red ; but having a few small reddish spots , E and generally two or three small patches of russet . APPLES . 49.
... thickened like that of the Kerry Pippin . Skin perfectly smooth , of a clear bright yellow , without any blush of red ; but having a few small reddish spots , E and generally two or three small patches of russet . APPLES . 49.
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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...