Elliott's Fruit Book: Or, The American Fruit-grower's Guide in Orchard and Garden. Being a Compend of the History, Modes of Propagation, Culture, Etc., of Fruit Trees and Shrubs, with Descriptions of Nearly All the Varieties of Fruits Cultivated in this Country; Notes of Their Adaptation to Localities and Soils, and Also a Complete List of Fruits Worthy of CultivationA.O. Moore, 1858 - 503 pagine |
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Elliott's Fruit Book: Or, The American Fruit-grower's Guide in Orchard and ... Franklin Reuben Elliott Visualizzazione completa - 1855 |
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Pagina 232 - No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
Pagina 11 - Adlum, John. A memoir on the cultivation of the vine in America, and the best mode of making wine. 2d ed. 1828. SB389 A3. 5055 Bailey, JM The book of ensilage; or, The new dispensation for farmers. Experience with "ensilage
Pagina 49 - Fruit large, roundish, about two inches and a quarter in diameter each way, on a standard tree ; rather larger on one side of the suture than the other. Skin orange in the shade, but deep orange or brownish red in the sun, marked with numerous dark specks and dots. Flesh quite firm, bright orange, parting free from the stone, quite juicy, with a rich and luscious flavour.
Pagina 34 - The sap acts with greater force and produces more vigorous growth on a branch or shoot pruned short, than on one pruned long. This is easily explained. The sap acting on two buds must evidently produce a greater development of wood on them, than if it were divided between fifteen or twenty buds.
Pagina 23 - A bandage of bass-bark, woolen-yarn, or other substance, is then wrapped around, commencing at the bottom and passing the bud, returning again and tying just below, covering all but the bud, fig. 7. The pressure should be just sufficient to keep the inserted portion closely to the stock, but not such as to bruise or crush the bark. In about ten days or two weeks after insertion, the strings will require to be loosened, and at expiration of three weeks removed altogether. The ensuing spring, as soon...
Pagina 34 - Bend the strong parts and keep the weak erect. The more erect the branches and stem are, the greater will be the flow of sap to the growing parts; hence, the feeble parts being erect, attract much more sap than the strong parts inclined, and, consequently, make a more vigorous growth, and soon recover their balance. This remedy is more especially applied to espalier trees. " 4. Remove from the vigorous parts the superfluous shoots as early in the season as possible, and from the feeble parts cte...
Pagina 31 - Pruning at the time of Transplanting" : "This is performed not only to remove bruised and broken roots and branches, but to restore the tree to a proper balance. As trees are ordinarily taken from the ground, the roots are bruised, broken or mutilated to a greater or less extent. This obviously destroys the natural balance or proportion that existed between the roots and stem, and in such a condition the tree is unable to grow. The demand upon the roots must, therefore, be lessened by reducing the...
Pagina 279 - The trees are hardy, but not good bearers while young, nor are they rapid growers. Its period of maturity must, however, give it place for market purposes as being the earliest good fruit yet known. For small gardens where only three or four days are little consequence, it is not advisable to plant it. Flowers, small; leaves, glandless, serrated; fruit, medium, roundish; skin, nearly white, dotted with red and becoming dark red in the sun; flesh, whitish, red at the stone, to which the flesh partially...
Pagina 213 - Very large ; roundish, heart-shaped ; light and dark-red, marbled, on a yellow ground ; stalk moderate size ; flesh light-yellow, half tender, rich, juicy, with a sweet, high flavor. Ripens in medial season. Of excellent quality. Class 1. Kirtland. 23.
Pagina 408 - By a selection of the rich est varieties, there is no doubt that prunes superior to those of foreign preparation might be easily obtained. The following description of an oven purposely built for prunes, and doubtless with some modifications, well adapted to the drying of other fruits, is given in Liegel's Treatise, (German,) as quoted in the Horticulturist. The amount of heat obtained by a small quantity of fuel, commends it to th^e particular attention of those engaged in drying fruit: " Prunes,...