the better sorts

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These wilding trees are, in the main, more hardy than the improved varieties, hence are largely employed as stocks for the better sorts, as well as for the plum and apricot.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.

Many of the inferior machines show marked improvements over the better sorts, so far as handiness goes, while there is nothing to hinder the handy from being good and the good handy.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

Of the better sorts of the wild fruits that I have met with, I will barely give you the names, not designing a natural history.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

We’ll start you with all we take to-day, except one or two of the better sorts, and those we’ll halve.

From Haviland's Chum by Mitford, Bertram

Yet these last words he uttered so lingeringly that I could see he was ready to weep with vexation at finding the better sorts of books so expensive.

From Poor Folk by Hogarth, C. J.