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Download pdf The American Farmer Volume 5, No. 6; Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and Rural Life

The American Farmer Volume 5, No. 6; Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and Rural Life by Maryland State Agricultural Society

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Author: Maryland State Agricultural Society
Number of Pages: 42 pages
Published Date: 20 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236322678
File size: 41 Mb
Download Link: The American Farmer Volume 5, No. 6; Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and Rural Life
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...with the nuts as large as Marrons or Spanish Chestnuts, and without diminution of flavor. If we were not so easily satisfied with a mere choice between spontaneous Hickory nuts, we might have much better and thinner-shelled ones. Varying as they do, excessively in the thickness of the shell and the size and flavor of the kernel, they are inviting your attention, and promising to reward your care. The Pecan is waiting to have the bitter matter between the kernel bred out; the Butternuts and Black Walnuts to have their excess of oil turned into a farinaceous and sugary matter, and their shells thinned and smothered by continued good breeding, when they will much surpass the European Walnut.--Prof. Asa Gray. Confusion in Peach Nomenclature. We find in a communication of Mr. Randolph Peters to the Gardener's Monthly for May, the following letter from Col. Wilkins, which we copy, the peach referred to having been noticed under its improper name in our pages: 195 Riverside, Kent Co., Md., Feb. 4th, '76. Randolph Peters, Esq: Dear Sir: --Yours of the 2d inst. received. Some people in Kent Co., Md., as well as;he correspondent in the Oardener's Monthly, have got things not a little, as you say, but I think a good deal mixed up. I know but one peach called the Comet, the one sent out by Thos. Rivers, a yellow-fleshed peach, ripening with me about with Smock. The peach you allude to is known to me as Bilyeu's Late October, and was propagated by Bilyeu from what he supposed to be a natural tree, which he found in Caroline Co., Md. With the owner's permission he obtained specimens of the fruit, and secured buds to propagate from the next season, and in due time he planted them on land that he got on shares, both in Caroline and Dorchester Co., Md. I succeeded in getting ...

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