The New American Orchardist: Or, An Account of the Most Valuable Varieties of Fruit, of All Climates, Adapted to Cultivation in the United States, with Their History, Modes of Culture, Management, Uses, &c., and the Culture of Silk. With an Appendix on Vegetables, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers, Volume 2 |
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... highly appreciated by cotemporaries , but posterity will know and acknow- ledge their value . Please to accept this dedication , not only as an ac- knowledgement of the many favors received , but as an expression of my high estimation ...
... highly appreciated by cotemporaries , but posterity will know and acknow- ledge their value . Please to accept this dedication , not only as an ac- knowledgement of the many favors received , but as an expression of my high estimation ...
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... highly recommend , were evidently never designed for us - but as peculiarly adapted to other climes , and to high northern latitudes , and to that country for which alone these celebrated works were prin- cipally designed . Since ...
... highly recommend , were evidently never designed for us - but as peculiarly adapted to other climes , and to high northern latitudes , and to that country for which alone these celebrated works were prin- cipally designed . Since ...
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... highly favored situations in the country around , they have become either so uncertain in their bearing so barren - so unproductive or so miserably blighted so mortally diseased that they are no longer to be trusted ; they are no longer ...
... highly favored situations in the country around , they have become either so uncertain in their bearing so barren - so unproductive or so miserably blighted so mortally diseased that they are no longer to be trusted ; they are no longer ...
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... highly improved in flavor , but wonderfully in size . The large Dutch red and the large Dutch white currant , are highly productive and improved varieties . But the white currant , as Mr Loudon asserts , is but a variety , produced from ...
... highly improved in flavor , but wonderfully in size . The large Dutch red and the large Dutch white currant , are highly productive and improved varieties . But the white currant , as Mr Loudon asserts , is but a variety , produced from ...
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... Highly satisfactory specimens of some of the new spe- cies which are described in the following pages , have been seen and exhibited among us ; enough to convince us of the decided excellence of at least a portion of them ; but as yet ...
... Highly satisfactory specimens of some of the new spe- cies which are described in the following pages , have been seen and exhibited among us ; enough to convince us of the decided excellence of at least a portion of them ; but as yet ...
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acid agreeable amber color annual plant apple autumn bearer beautiful berries BEURRE biennial plant BIGARREAU Black Hamburg boiled Bon Jard branches bright bunches Chasselas cherry climate clusters cocoons covered crop cultivated dark delicious dessert drupe early esteemed excellent flavor feet asunder flesh white flowers France fruit is large globular gold color grape green grows growth hardy height high flavored highly Hort inches insects John Lowell juice juicy Knight leaves Lindley Loudon maturity medium melting middle sized mode mulberry MUSCADINE native Neill Noisette oblong orange oval pale yellow peach pear perennial plant plant plum pounds preserved produced pruning pulp purple red color rich ripens rising roots round roundish rows russet saccharine Scarlet season September shade shrub silk silk-worms skin smooth soil species stalk sugar superior sweet tender thick Thomery Trans tree variety vine vinous wine winter wood yellow color yellowish
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Page 21 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er "which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Page 21 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers ; thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed ; Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Page 20 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, — Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, — A sylvan scene; and, as the ranks< ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 21 - Upon the rapid current, which through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Watered the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears...
Page 21 - Our death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill. Southward through Eden went a river large, Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulf...
Page 20 - Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round. And higher than that wall a circling row...
Page 11 - TO ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; Or, an Account of the most valuable Fruits and Vegetables cultivated in Great Britain : with Kalendars of the Work required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden during every month in the year. By G.
Page 20 - That landscape ; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 320 - A sirup and cordial are also prepared from the berries; and in Germany a very pure and strong spirit is said to be distilled from the fruit. The inner green bark is said to be an ingredient in black dye. And Professor Martyn, according to Loudon, has stated that the tree is a whole magazine of physic to rustic practitioners ; nor is it quite neglected by more regular ones.
Page 23 - ... be between six o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening, or between seven o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the evening, or between eight o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening...