A Guide to The Outdoor and Kitchen Garden1831 |
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... short , in a wide cavity . Skin covered with a fine bloom , with broad , broken , irregular stripes of red next the sun , and paler and more distant marking of the same kind in the shade . Flesh firm , yellowish white , occasionally ...
... short , in a wide cavity . Skin covered with a fine bloom , with broad , broken , irregular stripes of red next the sun , and paler and more distant marking of the same kind in the shade . Flesh firm , yellowish white , occasionally ...
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... short , slender , inserted in a shallow cavity , seldom projecting beyond the base . Skin pale yellow , spotted and ... short segments of the calyx , rather deeply sunk in an irregular , uneven bason . Stalk very short , thick , wholly ...
... short , slender , inserted in a shallow cavity , seldom projecting beyond the base . Skin pale yellow , spotted and ... short segments of the calyx , rather deeply sunk in an irregular , uneven bason . Stalk very short , thick , wholly ...
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... short streaks of a darker colour ; on the sunny side , of a still deeper red . Flesh very tender , snow - white , juice sugary , with a slight musky perfume . A dessert apple in October and November . This beautiful and singular apple ...
... short streaks of a darker colour ; on the sunny side , of a still deeper red . Flesh very tender , snow - white , juice sugary , with a slight musky perfume . A dessert apple in October and November . This beautiful and singular apple ...
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... short , slender . Skin bright yellow , deeply tinged with red on the sunny side , with many indistinct white spots . Flesh yellowish , firm , juicy , and rich , nearly as highly flavoured as that of the Golden Pippin . An excellent and ...
... short , slender . Skin bright yellow , deeply tinged with red on the sunny side , with many indistinct white spots . Flesh yellowish , firm , juicy , and rich , nearly as highly flavoured as that of the Golden Pippin . An excellent and ...
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... short , slender , deeply in- serted , not protruding beyond the base . Skin dull yellowish green , tinged on the sunny side with pale dull brown . Flesh greenish white , not crisp . Juice subacid , with a pretty good flavour . A ...
... short , slender , deeply in- serted , not protruding beyond the base . Skin dull yellowish green , tinged on the sunny side with pale dull brown . Flesh greenish white , not crisp . Juice subacid , with a pretty good flavour . A ...
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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...