A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden: Or, An Account of the Most Valuable Fruits Cultivated in Great Britain: with Kalendars of the Work Required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden During Every Month in the Year |
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Page 9
... crown . Eye contracted , plaited . Stalk short , thick . Skin greenish yellow , richly and closely streaked with deep red . Flesh white , juicy , breaking , sub - acid , very rich and agreeable , with- out any perfume or spicy flavour ...
... crown . Eye contracted , plaited . Stalk short , thick . Skin greenish yellow , richly and closely streaked with deep red . Flesh white , juicy , breaking , sub - acid , very rich and agreeable , with- out any perfume or spicy flavour ...
Page 13
... crown , which is rather narrow and depressed . Eye small , closed by the segments of the calyx . Stalk half an inch long , slender , rather deeply inserted . Skin dull yellowish green , dashed on the sunny side with faint red ...
... crown , which is rather narrow and depressed . Eye small , closed by the segments of the calyx . Stalk half an inch long , slender , rather deeply inserted . Skin dull yellowish green , dashed on the sunny side with faint red ...
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... crown . This has occasioned the Hawthornden to be represented in the figure quoted above as having a cleft on its side ; but neither this nor yet any other apple has one naturally . Sutures , or channels in fruit , are no where to be ...
... crown . This has occasioned the Hawthornden to be represented in the figure quoted above as having a cleft on its side ; but neither this nor yet any other apple has one naturally . Sutures , or channels in fruit , are no where to be ...
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... Crown quite flat . Eye large , in proportion to the size of the fruit , but very shallow , surrounded by a fine thin russet . Skin pale green on the shaded side ; on that exposed to the sun , of a very pure , clear yellow , free from ...
... Crown quite flat . Eye large , in proportion to the size of the fruit , but very shallow , surrounded by a fine thin russet . Skin pale green on the shaded side ; on that exposed to the sun , of a very pure , clear yellow , free from ...
Page 20
... several imbedded white dots , and slightly marked with many short , broken streaks of pale brown , with russetty specks on the sunny side , particularly in the crown and round the eye . Flesh rather soft , 20 APPLES .
... several imbedded white dots , and slightly marked with many short , broken streaks of pale brown , with russetty specks on the sunny side , particularly in the crown and round the eye . Flesh rather soft , 20 APPLES .
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A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden: Or, an Account of the Most Valuable ... George Lindley No preview available - 2020 |
A Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Or, an Account of the Most Valuable ... John Lindley,George Lindley No preview available - 2015 |
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apex apple from November August Bergamot Beurré Black branches buds bunches calyx cavity Chiswick cloth colour crown cultivated 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 J. C. LOUDON Jard Juice plentiful juicy Langley Lindl melting Mignonne Miller Muscadine Muscat of Alexandria Nectarines Nonpareil oblong open standard oval Parmain Pavie Peach Pear Pippin plants pruning purple quarters in diameter Quince rich Ripe the beginning Ripe the end Ripe the middle ripened roundish Royal russet russetty saccharine Scarlet Sea Kale seed shaded side shoots slender specks Stalk an inch Stalk half Stalk short stone sugary sunny side suture sweet three inches tinged Trans tree Twickenham Violet wall