 | English literature - 1834 - 442 pages
...contains generally (hirty-two seeds, two of which only will reproduce Shaddocks ; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield, some...bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit, and, in abort, all the varieties of the orange ; but until the trees are actually in bearing, no one can guess... | |
 | Gardening - 1834 - 648 pages
...contains generally thirtytwo seeds, two of which only will reproduce shaddocks; and these two it is impossible to distinguish. The rest will yield, some...a tree remarkable for the excellence of its fruit, will frequently yield only such as are scarcely eatable. So, also, the varieties of the mango are infinite;... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Black people - 1834 - 426 pages
...shaddocks ; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield, some sweet oranges, 211 others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit,...a tree remarkable for the excellence of its fruit, will frequently yield only such as are scarcely eatable. So also the varieties of the mango are infinite... | |
 | Joseph Abbott - British - 1846 - 376 pages
...contains generally thirty-two seeds, two of which only will reproduce shaddocks ; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield, some...a tree remarkable for the excellence of its fruit, will frequently yield only such as are scarcely eatable. So also the varieties of the mango are infinite... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Jamaica - 1861 - 200 pages
...contains generally thirty-two seeds, two of which only will reproduce shaddocks ; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield, some...a tree remarkable for the excellence of its fruit, will frequently yield only such as are scarcely eatable. So also the varieties of the mango are infinite... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1884 - 950 pages
...contains generally thiity-two seeds, two of which only will reproduce shaddocks; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield some...a tree remarkable for the excellence of its fruit, will frequently yield only such as are scarcely eatable. So also the varieties of the mango are infinite... | |
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The shaddock contains generally thirty-two seeds, two of which only will reproduce shaddocks ; and these two it is impossible to distinguish : the rest will yield, some sweet oranges, others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit, and, in short, all... 