"Seedless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no-core apples, as also of pears. The core is present but greatly reduced in size, and the seeds may be few and small. I have also raised practically seedless tomatoes. All these are infrequent variations that may be propagated by asexual parts (cuttings, cions), but as yet none of them has any ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
... big blue plums; wash and seed them, put in preserving kettle with one pint water; add (everything but the seeds of) five oranges and five lemons, putting the skins through a meat chopper; four pounds of seedless raisins, also put through the chopper; one pound of walnut meats broken and lastly five pounds of sugar. Let boil until quite thick, then put in glasses and ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various
... and the windows were mere slits in the walls, for the sake of warmth. As was proper, the offices and the house-serfs' cottages surrounded the manor-house on all sides, and a park adjoined it, small but with fine fruit-trees, pellucid apples and seedless pears; for ten versts round about stretched out the flat, black-loam steppe. There was no lofty object for the eye: neither a tree nor a belfry; only here and there a windmill reared itself aloft with holes in its wings; it was a regular Sukhodol! ...
— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev |
