 | John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe - Gardening - 1818 - 746 pages
...keep the steam down, for the reason mentioned last month. The cucumber bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...flower expands. There is never any in the males : but they are absolutely necessary by the dispersion of their farina to impregnate the female blossom ;... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Fruit trees - 1828 - 322 pages
...Encyc. Setting the fruit. — " The cucumber," Abercrombie observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Gardening - 1835 - 318 pages
...Encyc. Setting the fruit. — " The cucumber," Abercrombie observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 632 pages
...withpegK. Setting tht f'ruit. — The cucumber, Abercrombie observes, bears male and female blossoms distinctly, on the same plant. The latter only produce the fruit, which appears first in November, close under the .base, even before the flower expands. There is never any in the males; but... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Gardening - 1839 - 320 pages
...• Setting the fruit. — " The cucumber," Abercromhie obferves, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are abfolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - Flower gardening - 1840 - 418 pages
...indispensable in this operation. " The Cucumber," Abereroinbie observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - Herb gardening - 1847 - 196 pages
...indispensable in this operation. " The Cucumber," Abercrombie observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1853 - 498 pages
...taken not to break or injure the glass. Setting the fi-uit. The cucumber bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce...fruit, which appears first in miniature close under the case, even before the flower ex(Hin'Js. There is never any in the males; but these WR placed in tl<e... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Vegetable gardening - 1856 - 142 pages
...the same plant. TK* latter iwily produce the fruit, which appears first in miniature, close under l,e base, even before the flower expands. There is never any in the males, but theses are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely nec<wsary. by the dispersion of... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1857 - 672 pages
...observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on tlw same plant. The latter only produce the frnit, which appears first in miniature, close under the...males ; but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female... | |
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The cucumber," Abercrombie observes, " bears male and female blossoms distinctly on the same plant. The latter only produce the fruit, which appears first in miniature, close under the base, even before the flower expands. There is never any in the males... 
