The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 - Agriculture |
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... requiring the protection of a wall or of glass , have been found to be quite hardy and fit for the open lawn or shrubbery . Still less is known in distant provinces of these trees and shrubs than of new fruits and culinary vegetables ...
... requiring the protection of a wall or of glass , have been found to be quite hardy and fit for the open lawn or shrubbery . Still less is known in distant provinces of these trees and shrubs than of new fruits and culinary vegetables ...
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... require a greater supply . The sorts that succeed best in turning out are A. reginæ , Johnsoni , crocata , acuminata , rutila , fulgida , psittacina , and vittata , and all the hybrids that have been produced from them . A. aulica ...
... require a greater supply . The sorts that succeed best in turning out are A. reginæ , Johnsoni , crocata , acuminata , rutila , fulgida , psittacina , and vittata , and all the hybrids that have been produced from them . A. aulica ...
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... require very little water until they have made fresh roots ; they will then need a frequent supply , but they will always require a warm situ- ation in the hothouse , and care must be taken not to water them over the leaves , as it very ...
... require very little water until they have made fresh roots ; they will then need a frequent supply , but they will always require a warm situ- ation in the hothouse , and care must be taken not to water them over the leaves , as it very ...
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... requires more heat to bring it to maturity than the Hamburgh , or any of the earlier kinds I am acquainted with . The fruit with me begins to change colour in August . When the weather is wet or cold at this season I make a little fire ...
... requires more heat to bring it to maturity than the Hamburgh , or any of the earlier kinds I am acquainted with . The fruit with me begins to change colour in August . When the weather is wet or cold at this season I make a little fire ...
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... requires the combination of a thermo- meter , with a means of reducing the body containing it to such a degree of cold that dew deposits , to have an accurate means of determining the dew point ; and , consequently , the quantity of ...
... requires the combination of a thermo- meter , with a means of reducing the body containing it to such a degree of cold that dew deposits , to have an accurate means of determining the dew point ; and , consequently , the quantity of ...
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