| 单词 |
Malling |
| 释义 |
Malling|ˈmɔːlɪŋ|
The names of two villages, East and West Malling, in Kent, used to designate:
1. English pottery of the late sixteenth century in the form of tin-enamelled jugs, one of which was found at West Malling; = tiger-ware.
[1903Times 11 Feb. 10/6 The West Malling Elizabethan jug..will be sold [on]..February 19th. ]1933W. B. Honey Eng. Pott. & Porc. iii. 36 A ‘Malling jug’ of 1550..was sold for five hundred and sixty guineas. 1968A. Ray Eng. Delftware Pott. xi. 91 The 16th century ‘Malling’ jugs are the earliest tin-glazed pottery.
2. A rootstock for fruit trees developed at the East Malling Research Station. Also attrib.
1927Gardeners' Chronicle 19 Mar. 199/2 Present-day planters have the advantage of being able to buy trees on the East Malling stocks. Ibid. There is a very strong demand amongst market growers for dessert Apples on Jaune de Metz (Type IX), the most dwarfing of the Malling selections. 1928A. H. Hoare Eng. Grass Orchard v. 73 It is good news for orchard planters that it has been found possible to select and propagate by layering the most desirable of the seedling crabs and the very vigorous types of ‘Paradise’ stocks, as they are called. These are known as Malling Types XII., XIII. and XVI., and Bristol No. 5... They are not yet plentiful. 1936H. V. Taylor Apples Eng. p. iii (Advt.), Selected trees on Malling stocks. 1966A. G. Brown in Fruit Present & Future (R. Hort. Soc.) 18 East Malling has continued to work with rootstocks and has recently introduced a new dwarfing stock Malling 26. 1973Pears Encycl. Gardening: Fruit & Vegetables 23 Trees on Malling IX, which are planted closer than those of other rootstocks..will ensure the largest weight of fruit from a small garden, in the quickest possible time. |
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