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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... Pear , 111 Old Pears , 113 • New Pears , 126 • Quince , Peach , 162 · • 165 Nectarine , Almond , Apricot , 191 194 • • 196 · Plum , 201 • Cherry , Mulberry ,. Mulberries and Silk , Page .
... Pear , 111 Old Pears , 113 • New Pears , 126 • Quince , Peach , 162 · • 165 Nectarine , Almond , Apricot , 191 194 • • 196 · Plum , 201 • Cherry , Mulberry ,. Mulberries and Silk , Page .
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... pears , and plums . " The following from the same writer is from a passage to be found in " Advice to people upon their health , by Tissot . " " There is a pernicious prejudice , with which all are too generally imbued : —it is that ...
... pears , and plums . " The following from the same writer is from a passage to be found in " Advice to people upon their health , by Tissot . " " There is a pernicious prejudice , with which all are too generally imbued : —it is that ...
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... Pears . For our best varieties of Apples , and some other species , are mostly native fruits , or of modern origin . Let no one suppose that the intelligent Horticulturists here , have never been acquainted with the best of the old Pears ...
... Pears . For our best varieties of Apples , and some other species , are mostly native fruits , or of modern origin . Let no one suppose that the intelligent Horticulturists here , have never been acquainted with the best of the old Pears ...
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... pears , whose duration we had hoped , but in vain , to perpetuate . For except in certain sections of the city , and some very few solitary and highly favored situations in the country around , they have become either so uncertain in ...
... pears , whose duration we had hoped , but in vain , to perpetuate . For except in certain sections of the city , and some very few solitary and highly favored situations in the country around , they have become either so uncertain in ...
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... Pears , in the vicinity of Paris , and the necessity of a renewal , he asserts that they must look elsewhere for new ... pear . M. Van Mons has stated that " the Belgians give no preference to the seeds of table fruits , when they plant ...
... Pears , in the vicinity of Paris , and the necessity of a renewal , he asserts that they must look elsewhere for new ... pear . M. Van Mons has stated that " the Belgians give no preference to the seeds of table fruits , when they plant ...
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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...