Handy Book of Fruit Culture Under GlassW. Blackwood, 1881 - 357 páginas |
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... produced by the able author , as well as with his book , and therefore can pronounce the book the best on the subject yet written , or likely to be written for a long time to come . " - The Field . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ...
... produced by the able author , as well as with his book , and therefore can pronounce the book the best on the subject yet written , or likely to be written for a long time to come . " - The Field . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ...
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... produce in the recollection of the writer . To Mr James Barnes , late gardener at Bicton Park , Devonshire , we are in- debted for exposing and discontinuing the erroneous practice of annually disrooting pine plants , and subject- ing ...
... produce in the recollection of the writer . To Mr James Barnes , late gardener at Bicton Park , Devonshire , we are in- debted for exposing and discontinuing the erroneous practice of annually disrooting pine plants , and subject- ing ...
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... produce a stocky fruitful growth in the dull atmosphere which so much prevails in this country . Pineries should therefore be constructed so as to admit and diffuse as much light and sunshine as can be had . In the few months when at ...
... produce a stocky fruitful growth in the dull atmosphere which so much prevails in this country . Pineries should therefore be constructed so as to admit and diffuse as much light and sunshine as can be had . In the few months when at ...
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... produce a pasty , retentive tendency in the loam , or that would rapidly hasten the decomposition of the fibrous part of it . Animal excrement has a tendency to do both , and on that account I never use it for the pine all that is added ...
... produce a pasty , retentive tendency in the loam , or that would rapidly hasten the decomposition of the fibrous part of it . Animal excrement has a tendency to do both , and on that account I never use it for the pine all that is added ...
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... produce suckers in sufficient abundance I always find easily enough increased by preserving the old plants from which ... produced from stock which had been overrun with insects . SUCKERS . Suppose a quantity of suckers to come under THE ...
... produce suckers in sufficient abundance I always find easily enough increased by preserving the old plants from which ... produced from stock which had been overrun with insects . SUCKERS . Suppose a quantity of suckers to come under THE ...
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afternoon allowed applied atmosphere autumn bearing begin berries Black Hamburg bloom bottom bottom-heat buds bunches carefully Cayenne cold cold frames colour covered crop cucumbers cultivation damp DAVID THOMSON desirable dull early forcing especially feet fibry fire-heat flavour foliage frame freely fresh fruit are set fruit-bearing fruiting-pots garden glass grapes grow grown guano healthy heat inches increase insect keep lateral growths lean-to leaves light loam manure manure-water melons moist moisture month Muscat of Alexandria necessary nectarines night temperature peach peach-houses Phylloxera pine-apple pines plants plunged pots practice prevent produced pruning recommended red-spider remove ripe ripen roots season shade shifted shoots shut side soil soon span-roofed stem stopped strawberries strong succession suckers sufficient summer sun-heat supply surface swelling syringe thin thrip top-dressing trained trees trellis varieties ventilation vinery warm weather winter wood young vines
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