A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... thick and hard , the kernel small , and not high flavoured . This is an improved variety of the former , and differs from it only in having larger fruit . It is a pre- ferable sort for stocks , and used by the more careful of their ...
... thick and hard , the kernel small , and not high flavoured . This is an improved variety of the former , and differs from it only in having larger fruit . It is a pre- ferable sort for stocks , and used by the more careful of their ...
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... thick , not deeply inserted . Skin very thick and tough , pale bright lemon colour when fully ripe , intermixed with a little bright green , and sprinkled with numerous spots of the same . Flesh inclining to yellow , firm , crisp ...
... thick , not deeply inserted . Skin very thick and tough , pale bright lemon colour when fully ripe , intermixed with a little bright green , and sprinkled with numerous spots of the same . Flesh inclining to yellow , firm , crisp ...
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... thick , and very short . Skin 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 ...
... thick , and very short . Skin 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 ...
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... thick . Skin greenish yellow , richly and closely streaked with deep red . Flesh white , juicy , breaking , sub - acid , very rich and agreeable , with- out any perfume or spicy flavour . Ripe the beginning and middle of August . A very ...
... thick . Skin greenish yellow , richly and closely streaked with deep red . Flesh white , juicy , breaking , sub - acid , very rich and agreeable , with- out any perfume or spicy flavour . Ripe the beginning and middle of August . A very ...
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... thick , inserted in a very regu- knobs . lar cavity . Skin greenish yellow , thickly sprinkled with yellow russetty spots , and nearly covered with a bright red . Flesh yellow , firm . Juice not plentiful , but sweet , and of a very ...
... thick , inserted in a very regu- knobs . lar cavity . Skin greenish yellow , thickly sprinkled with yellow russetty spots , and nearly covered with a bright red . Flesh yellow , firm . Juice not plentiful , but sweet , and of a very ...
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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...