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Almonds and apricots graft well onto peach root-stocks, but an apricot scion is not compatible with almond stock nor is an almond scion with apricot stock. 18
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SPICES, AROMATIC CONDIMENTS, FRAGRANT WOODS, &c. The various spices and condiments which form so large an item in our commercial imports, are obtained from the barks, the dried seeds, the fruit, flower-buds, and root-stocks, of different plants.
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The roots, which are tuberous, are of unusual form -- soft swollen root-stocks may be more descriptive of them.
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This is a densely tufted perennial grass with branching root-stocks and spongy aromatic roots.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Discuss with the collectors their observations on where the trilliums grow, the kind of soil, the depth of the root-stocks below the surface, the uses of the root-stocks, insect visitors.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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This is an erect perennial grass with creeping, stoloniferous root-stocks, with aerial stems varying from 6 inches to 3 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Externally the color of the root-stocks is reddish brown, internally pale reddish white.
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We see marked instances of it in cultivated carrots and turnips, the normal condition of the roots or root-stocks in these plants being one of considerable hardness and toughness, and their form slender, tapering, and more or less branched.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The remaining seedlings supplied me with root-stocks for experimental work which proved very valuable.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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The old (foliage) sorts may be left out late to ripen up the fleshy root-stocks.
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