A Catalogue of the Fruits Cultivated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London |
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Apple bearer Belle Bergamotte Beurré Bezi Bigarreau Black July Blanche Bon Chrétien Brugnon Calville Chasselas Clingstone Codlin Colmar Colour conical d'Automne d'Hiver Damas Duke Eté Excellent Feuilles Flesh Fleur Fondante Frontignan Golden Pippin Green Gage Griotte Gros Grosse Mignonne Guigne Hâtive Herefordshire Ischia Jaune July June Knight's large 2 sp Late Leadington Melon Muscadine Muscat Muscat of Alexandria Musqué Name Newtown Pippin Noir Nonpareil Nutmeg oblate oblong large oblong middle obovate 2TB obovate large obovate middle Orange oval thick ovate Peach Pear pearm Pearmain Perdrigon Petit Pine Pine Apple Poire Pomme Portugal Quality Queen Quetsche Reinette Remarks round thin roundish large roundish small Royal George Russet Scarlet Season Seedling Sept Striped Sugarloaf Tardive tender thin sweet Vert Violette White Doyenné White Heart Whitesmith Wilmot's Worthless y. r. roundish yellow thick
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Page 72 - ... 1835. In it I proposed the practical application of my mode of grafting to the economical and expeditious proving of the unproved varieties of the vine. This was suggested by the following notice in the Catalogue of Fruits grown in the London Horticultural Society's Garden in 1831, under the article " Grapes : " — " The varieties of grapes are found to be in great confusion ; and much difference of opinion exists respecting the comparative merits, as well as the nomenclature, of many of the...
Page 72 - Gardening. meantime, the generally known and acknowledged merits and characters of some have been given ; others, less certain, have been left without attaching any remark till circumstances admit of the whole being properly examined.
Page 163 - July woolly. the Prolific, and also those sterile plants commonly called Males, which have long stamens. The latter ought in all cases to be entirely destroyed. They may be distinguished from the prolific by their flowers being scarcely so large, and the receptacle of the fructification small and imperfect.