 | Pennsylvania State College. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1887 - 1190 páginas
...edible fruits. They are of the first rank as to size, and the fruit is the true seed only, and is not made up of fleshy coverings of the seed as in the apple, peach, etc. Nuts have, therefore, much less water and a higher nutritive value generally. They are rather of the... | |
 | John R. Parry - 1897 - 164 páginas
...so much thought and attention, the increase of our plants for cultivation should find a place, and of cultivated plants the nut-producing trees are among...generally than have those fruits which are made up of the fleshy coverings of the seeds, as in the apple and peach, &c. They are rather of the nature of... | |
 | Pennsylvania State College - 1897 - 680 páginas
...edible fruits. They are of the first rank as to size, and the fruit is the true seed only, and is not made up of fleshy coverings of the seed as in the apple, peach, etc. Nuts have, therefore, much less water and a higher nutritive value generally. They are rather of the... | |
 | 1887 - 746 páginas
...edible fruits. They are of the first rank as to size, and the fruit is the true seed only, and is not made up of fleshy coverings of the seed as in the apple, peach, etc. Nuts have, therefore, much less water and a higher nutritive value generally. They are rather of the... | |
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The nut trees difl'er very much in certain particulars from other trees which produce edible fruits. They are of the first rank as to size, and the fruit is the true seed only, and is not made up of fleshy coverings of the seed as in the apple, peach,... 