Handy Book of Fruit Culture Under GlassW. Blackwood, 1881 - 357 páginas |
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... recommend Mr Thomson's treatise as a thoroughly practical and sure guide to the cultivation of the vine . " - Journal of Horticulture . " We urge our readers to procure the work , and they will get so clear an insight into vine ...
... recommend Mr Thomson's treatise as a thoroughly practical and sure guide to the cultivation of the vine . " - Journal of Horticulture . " We urge our readers to procure the work , and they will get so clear an insight into vine ...
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... recommend his book to the notice of our readers , as likely to be , from a garden- ing point of view , the standard work on Herbaceous Plants . - Gardeners ' Chronicle . " The best book of its class available for English readers ...
... recommend his book to the notice of our readers , as likely to be , from a garden- ing point of view , the standard work on Herbaceous Plants . - Gardeners ' Chronicle . " The best book of its class available for English readers ...
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... recommend ' The Book of the Garden . ' To gardeners , in every way , it will be indispensable ; and not less so to country gentlemen , architects , and surveyors , who will find it the best authority on the subject they can refer to ...
... recommend ' The Book of the Garden . ' To gardeners , in every way , it will be indispensable ; and not less so to country gentlemen , architects , and surveyors , who will find it the best authority on the subject they can refer to ...
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... recommended to be grown are those which it is considered yield the most speedy and certain return with a minimum of labour and cost . DAVID THOMSON . DRUMLANRIG GARDENS . CONTENTS . PAGE THE PINE - APPLE , Pineries , vi PREFACE .
... recommended to be grown are those which it is considered yield the most speedy and certain return with a minimum of labour and cost . DAVID THOMSON . DRUMLANRIG GARDENS . CONTENTS . PAGE THE PINE - APPLE , Pineries , vi PREFACE .
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... recommend lean - to houses , as represented by fig . 2 . 10 1000 O O о 20 3000 30 FIG . 2 . The dimensions of the two pineries represented by the woodcuts , are 40 feet by 18 feet , which give a house of handsome proportions . But as ...
... recommend lean - to houses , as represented by fig . 2 . 10 1000 O O о 20 3000 30 FIG . 2 . The dimensions of the two pineries represented by the woodcuts , are 40 feet by 18 feet , which give a house of handsome proportions . But as ...
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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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