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  • After watching her fruit-grower customers eat more than one bite at the recent tasting, she says the pluerry has special promise.

    When Apricot Met Plum... Melanie Grayce West 2011

  • A fruit-grower had utilised one of these which was sunk below the road for his trees, or had simply, perhaps, preserved the plan of an immense orchard of former days.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • The prosperity of the farmer and fruit-grower in North

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Punishment is off-hand and severe; but the cockatoo is a sly bird, and often the fury of the fruit-grower expends itself in merely verbal explosions.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • As previously stated, Queensland offers exceptional advantages to the intending fruit-grower, and the following may be quoted as examples.

    Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson

  • The life of a fruit-grower is by no means a hard one in Queensland, the climate of the fruit-growing districts is a healthy and by no means a trying one, and is thoroughly adapted to the successful cultivation of many fruits; and, finally, a living can be made under conditions that are much more conducive to the well-being of our race than those existing in the overcrowded centres of population.

    Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson

  • Queensland is a good land for the intending fruit-grower.

    Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson

  • The lumberman must be supplanted by the farmer and fruit-grower before the slopes about Puget Sound can be fully developed.

    The Western United States A Geographical Reader

  • Every operation of the fruit-grower is, or should be, carried out on scientific lines and by the best methods of propagation -- pruning, cultivation, manuring, treatment of diseases, and preservation of fruit when grown are all, directly or indirectly, the result of scientific research.

    Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson

  • Here, as elsewhere, the progressive fruit-growing of to-day has become practically a science, as the fruit-grower who wishes to keep abreast of the times depends largely on the practical application of scientific knowledge for the successful carrying on of his business.

    Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson

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