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... coloured than the garden sorts . We have them dropped or dibbled in holes in February , and cut them in September . They are extremely subject to a destructive black insect , called " the collier . " These ter- rible foes to the bean ...
... coloured than the garden sorts . We have them dropped or dibbled in holes in February , and cut them in September . They are extremely subject to a destructive black insect , called " the collier . " These ter- rible foes to the bean ...
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... colouring property of this plant , that animals who feed upon it have their very bones stained of a ruddy hue . Madder is also emloyed in medicine . CORIANDER my neighbours grow ; but our soil is not well suited to it . It is frequently ...
... colouring property of this plant , that animals who feed upon it have their very bones stained of a ruddy hue . Madder is also emloyed in medicine . CORIANDER my neighbours grow ; but our soil is not well suited to it . It is frequently ...
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... colouring matter , are commonly added . That which is accounted the richest of all English cheese , is the Stilton ; not made , how- ever , at the place of that name , but in various parts of the midland counties . It is not reckoned in ...
... colouring matter , are commonly added . That which is accounted the richest of all English cheese , is the Stilton ; not made , how- ever , at the place of that name , but in various parts of the midland counties . It is not reckoned in ...
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... coloured , gilt edges . " The faculty of wonder is one which , save in few instances , exerts its fullest influence in the early years of life : it is a stimulus to the acquisition of know- ledge , by starting and arresting attention ...
... coloured , gilt edges . " The faculty of wonder is one which , save in few instances , exerts its fullest influence in the early years of life : it is a stimulus to the acquisition of know- ledge , by starting and arresting attention ...
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... Coloured Illustrations . Fcap 8vo . Price 5s . cloth , gilt edges . " Let all who love flowers and healthy sentiment straightway procure this charming volume . " - Church and State Gazette . " Botanical characteristics , rural ...
... Coloured Illustrations . Fcap 8vo . Price 5s . cloth , gilt edges . " Let all who love flowers and healthy sentiment straightway procure this charming volume . " - Church and State Gazette . " Botanical characteristics , rural ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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