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Skin yellowish green , with several reddish spots ; on the sunny side of a fine clear red . Flesh white . Juice sweet , with a slight aromatic flavour . Ripe in August and beginning of September . The branches of this tree droop in the ...
Skin yellowish green , with several reddish spots ; on the sunny side of a fine clear red . Flesh white . Juice sweet , with a slight aromatic flavour . Ripe in August and beginning of September . The branches of this tree droop in the ...
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Flesh yellowish white , fine , breaking with a crystalline appearance , juicy . Juice sweetish acid , and agreeably perfumed . Its maturity commences about the middle of July , and continues , with little interruption , till November .
Flesh yellowish white , fine , breaking with a crystalline appearance , juicy . Juice sweetish acid , and agreeably perfumed . Its maturity commences about the middle of July , and continues , with little interruption , till November .
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Flesh pale yellowish white , tender . Juice rather thin , smart , slightly saccharine , and of a very pleasant flavour . A culinary apple in October and November . This apple has very much the appearance of a small Nonesuch , from which ...
Flesh pale yellowish white , tender . Juice rather thin , smart , slightly saccharine , and of a very pleasant flavour . A culinary apple in October and November . This apple has very much the appearance of a small Nonesuch , from which ...
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Flesh firm , yellowish white , occasionally tinged with pink next the skin , with a rich and brisk flavour . A culinary apple from Michaelmas till Christmas . A very handsome and useful kind , supposed to have had its origin in ...
Flesh firm , yellowish white , occasionally tinged with pink next the skin , with a rich and brisk flavour . A culinary apple from Michaelmas till Christmas . A very handsome and useful kind , supposed to have had its origin in ...
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Flesh greenish yellowish , crisp . Juice saccharine , with a very pleasant . aromatic flavour . A very neat and excellent dessert apple in November and December . Raised about twenty years ago by the late Mr. William Padley , gardener ...
Flesh greenish yellowish , crisp . Juice saccharine , with a very pleasant . aromatic flavour . A very neat and excellent dessert apple in November and December . Raised about twenty years ago by the late Mr. William Padley , gardener ...
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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...