10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONELESSNESS»
Discover the use of
stonelessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stonelessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Stoneless Plum: An Experiment in Teaching a Plant Economy
One. Result. oj. Stonelessness. The picture on page 3$ showed the normal
attachment oj the stem to the stone oj the jruit. The stoneless plum obviously
lacks this support. Hence ij the plum is very large the jlcsh may be drawn out at
the point ...
2
Plums and Prunes Without Stones and Seeds: How All Fruits ...
The more he had studied the subject, the better he would be able to appreciate
what stonelessness in a plum really means. The more he had worked in plant
development, the fuller would be his appreciation of the labor represented in the
...
3
Four Burbank Prunes, and The Work Behind Them: ...
It has been no great trouble to eliminate the stone in a poor fruit; to combine
stonelessness with good quality of fruit has been extremely difficult. But
continued selection will finally produce a prune of this kind which has the quality
of the best ...
MULTIPLE SELEcTIoN For example, in developing a stoneless plum, my earliest
selections were made with an eye to stonelessness alone. Then as I gradually
developed a race of plums in which I was certain of finding a fair proportion of ...
5
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man: Small fruits
If I had crossed with a plum it would have been a hundred times more difficult to
get the prune characters than it was to get stonelessness. In the Conquest the
size and quality of the French prune is retained or even intensified, together with
the ...
6
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man: Fruit improvement
Multiple Selection For example, in developing a stoneless plum, my earliest
selections were made with an eye to stonelessness alone. Then as I gradually
developed a race of plums in which I was certain of finding a fair proportion of ...
7
O Little Town: Remembering Life in a Prairie Village
... swinging heavy mallets, their blows striking each stake so rapidly that the post
seemed scarcely to hesitate during its downward movement into the ground, the
process aided considerably by the comparative stonelessness of the prairie soil.
8
The Greatest Plum of All: The Prune: Forty Years in Search ...
and if possible a free stone — overlooking for the moment the question of entire
stonelessness which will doubtless be required of the prune of the future. Again,
the trade demands a glossy black prune, for — owing, perhaps, to the fact that the
...
9
From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia
Its treelessness, stonelessness, and monotony were associated with stagnation
and death, and the impression is not likely to fade.6 This vision of Mesopotamia
was by no means singular. Gertrude Bell travelled the region before the war ...
10
Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of ...
Universal disbelief in the existence of stones does not lead to stonelessness.
Neither do theories that make no mention of stones. Nor would stones cease to
exist if we had no word or concept for stones. The world would not be stoneless if,
...
Michael Devitt, Kim Sterelny, 1999
