10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELOCOTOON»
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for ...
The modern equivalents are melocotoon and musk-melon. They are associated
in Webster's play, ' The Devil's LawCase,' Act I. so. :— Deuce-ace the wafer-
woman, that prigs abroad \Vith mush-melons and malakatoons. Dyce, in the
notes to ...
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The Universal Etymological English Dictionary:: In Two ...
MELICO'TONY, a sort of yellow MELOCOTOON', Peach. MEL'll-OT [mlrlarrsh L. of
FnN'Mn-og, Gr.] an Herb so called. ' To ME'LXORATE [Mr/forewot, L.] to inend or
make better. _ MELIORA'TlON, amakinghetter, mendrng of improvcttng.
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Friends' Intelligencer and Journal
Home Journal. NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS. A well-known variety of the
peach, a large fruit, is the melocotoon (or malakatoon), and the oddity of the
name may often have struck a person using it. A little explanation of the
etymology of ...
Strictly speaking, a melocotoon is a peach raised from a graft on a quince stock,
that being the Span • ish use of the word, though the Spanish form is melocoton,
and the Italian melocotogno, both being derived from mediaeval Latin, meliim, ...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
melocoton,melocotoon(mero-kot-on,-ko-t8n),. it. [Formerly also melocoton'e,
meticotuin, and corruptly malakatoon, < Sp. melocoton, a peach- tree grafted into
a quince-tree, or the fruit of the tree, = It. melocotogno, quince-tree, < ML. mclnm ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1890
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Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society
... bestowed upon their improvement until the year 1842, when John A. Cox
brought from Delaware a choice selection of the best varieties, among which
were the Melocotoon, Heath Cling, Large Early York, Early Rareripe and
Mammoth Cling, ...
Illinois State Horticultural Society, 1875
186 I.ate Crawford 41, 102, 104 Lemon Cling 183 Lemon Free 42 Lewis or
Michigan 101, 104, 103 Red Cheek Melocotoon 102 Salway 102 Stevens
Rareripe 102 Triumph 42. 186 Yellow St. John or Crane 41. 101 Pearce, J. A.,
papers by ...
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1908
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The Cultivation of the Peach and the Pear, on the Delaware ...
Get the true old-fashioned Crawford's Early, and not the Yellow Melocotoon,
which is most often sold for it, and you get a grand, early, yellow peach. Wager —
Globose Glands. — Good sized, lemon-yellow peach which originated in New
York ...
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Diccionario Espanol E Ingles; A Dictionary, English and Spanish
E]0'N, s. m. a great ear , otone that has. great ears; also I peach or melocotoon
dried in llices. " i' r Lorcjdn de balmirte , an orillon , a mass of earth faced with wall
, . a bright ,ctfair , beautiful peatLO R P O R Z l of father and mother. 466 ORE ORI
...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural ...
Rivers I don't like very well, but I have to use them, clear down to Lewis and the St
. John; and following St. John I have the red cheek Melocotoon, two or three
hundred trees coming in at this time. Then we have the Early Crawford, then
Engle's ...
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 1903
