Pomona Londinensis: Containing Colored Engravings of the Most Esteemed Fruits Cultivated in the British Gardens : with a Descriptive Account of Each Variety, Volume 1 |
Common terms and phrases
ANDREW KNIGHT annexed plate Apple Apricot Bergamot best varieties Beurré blossoms blotches broad buds large Cherry cleft Covent Garden Market Crasanne dark deep green delicate dessert drawing was taken early espalier esteemed flattened Flesh white Footstalk French fruit fully ripe Galande Garden at Hampton Gloucester Place Golden Pippin grafted Green Gage HAMEL Hampton Court HORTICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY inch long inches in length Isleworth juicy Leaves large melting merit moderate Moor Park Nectarine Nonpareil nurserymen original tree oval PADLEY pale green Peach Pear perfection petioles Plate was taken Plum possess produce fruit produced in clusters purple resembles Ribston Pippin rich round roundish Royal Garden Scarlet seed shaded side skin soil sometimes specimen delineated stalk standard tree Stone small streaks sweet Sykehouse Thames Ditton thick tinge tinted with red Twickenham upper surface usually ripens Vermash Violet west wall WILLIAM HOOKER Wormsley yellowish young shoots