The Fruit Grower's Instructor: Being a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Treatment of Fruit Trees: to which is Added, Full Instructions for Forcing, with a List and Descriptive Account of All the Best Fruits Cultivated in Great Britain; Also Directions for Hothouse Building, with the Most Approved Modes of Heating by Fire and Hot Water ... The Whole Written from PracticeJ. Ridgeway, 1849 - 312 sider |
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... useful , and I may add the most beautiful , for the bloom in spring is extremely handsome , and the fruit when ripe the same . Indeed it may be denominated with strict propriety , a truly British fruit , being the FREFACE .
... useful , and I may add the most beautiful , for the bloom in spring is extremely handsome , and the fruit when ripe the same . Indeed it may be denominated with strict propriety , a truly British fruit , being the FREFACE .
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... handsome standards . In the next place must be got ready the scions or cuttings , which should be of one year's growth , and as firm and strong as you can get them , so that they are not too large for the stocks ; for although weak ...
... handsome standards . In the next place must be got ready the scions or cuttings , which should be of one year's growth , and as firm and strong as you can get them , so that they are not too large for the stocks ; for although weak ...
Side 18
... not upright or strong : in this case you ought to cut all off but two shoots , and cut those shoots down to about three buds ; or where one shoot is much weaker than the other , in order to form a handsome tree , 18 MANAGEMENT OF.
... not upright or strong : in this case you ought to cut all off but two shoots , and cut those shoots down to about three buds ; or where one shoot is much weaker than the other , in order to form a handsome tree , 18 MANAGEMENT OF.
Side 19
... handsome tree , it is better to take off the weak shoot and cut down the strong one to four or five buds , which will produce quite a sufficient quantity of shoots , and prevent the tree growing strong on one side and weak on the other ...
... handsome tree , it is better to take off the weak shoot and cut down the strong one to four or five buds , which will produce quite a sufficient quantity of shoots , and prevent the tree growing strong on one side and weak on the other ...
Side 33
... handsome . I must add another reason for not cutting down the heads of fresh planted standard apples : I have often seen them when they have been cut down , instead of making fine young heads , throw out short shoots two or three inches ...
... handsome . I must add another reason for not cutting down the heads of fresh planted standard apples : I have often seen them when they have been cut down , instead of making fine young heads , throw out short shoots two or three inches ...
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