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Page 286
... covering of two inches of sifted ashes was placed over the whole , which keeps the pots from drying out . After this a sharp lookout was kept for the first appearance of growth in the lilies , when all the ashes was removed and the ...
... covering of two inches of sifted ashes was placed over the whole , which keeps the pots from drying out . After this a sharp lookout was kept for the first appearance of growth in the lilies , when all the ashes was removed and the ...
Page 306
... covered the ground , the same amount of time was spent in hand pulling weeds . The crop was dug during the latter part of September , Hallock's This potato digger being used on the greater part of the field . does not bring all the ...
... covered the ground , the same amount of time was spent in hand pulling weeds . The crop was dug during the latter part of September , Hallock's This potato digger being used on the greater part of the field . does not bring all the ...
Page 312
... covering an enclosed space of 120,000 square feet of ground , the houses being especially arranged for growing lettuce and cucumbers . The first sowing of lettuce seed is in August , and additional sowings are made every five days until ...
... covering an enclosed space of 120,000 square feet of ground , the houses being especially arranged for growing lettuce and cucumbers . The first sowing of lettuce seed is in August , and additional sowings are made every five days until ...
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... covered with a grayish integument which are often found upon the stalks of corn , are caused by a species belonging to this group of " Smuts . " The Uredineæ or " Rusts " are peculiar , in that they not only may produce several forms of ...
... covered with a grayish integument which are often found upon the stalks of corn , are caused by a species belonging to this group of " Smuts . " The Uredineæ or " Rusts " are peculiar , in that they not only may produce several forms of ...
Page 32
... covered put on fertilizer not coarse manure , but a mixture composed of eight parts of bone phosphate , eight parts of muriate of potash and four parts of nitrate of soda . The large roots do not feed the tree , but the feeders are ...
... covered put on fertilizer not coarse manure , but a mixture composed of eight parts of bone phosphate , eight parts of muriate of potash and four parts of nitrate of soda . The large roots do not feed the tree , but the feeders are ...
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Page 112 - Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Page 112 - And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Page 2 - The Art of Perfumery, and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants ; the Growth and general Flower Farm System of Raising Fragrant Herbs ; with Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes &c.
Page 107 - Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State of New York, Albany 1891, S.
Page 147 - Heat the solution of soap and add it boiling hot to the kerosene. Churn the mixture by means of a force pump and spray nozzle for five or ten minutes. The emulsion, if perfect, forms a cream which thickens on cooling and should adhere without oiliness to the surface of the glass. Dilute, before using, one part of the emulsion with nine parts of cold water.
Page 147 - ... Heat the solution of soap and add it boiling hot to the kerosene. Churn the mixture by means of a force-pump and spray-nozzle for five or ten minutes. The emulsion, if perfect, forms a cream, which thickens on cooling, and should adhere without oiliness to the surface of glass. Dilute, before using, one part of the emulsion with nine parts of cold water. The above formula gives three gallons of emulsion, and makes, when diluted, thirty gallons of wash.
Page 4 - Jose, duly seconded, it was voted that the Report of the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, presented at the Stated Meeting on the fifth of January and then postponed to this meeting, be taken up.
Page 8 - Population of an Old Pear Tree. From the French of E. VAN BRUYSSEL. Edited by the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe.
Page 401 - The spelling reform; by Francis A. March. A revision and enlargement of the author's pamphlet published by the US Bureau of education in 1881.
Page 5 - Jersey road system, passed, almost unanimously, an act to provide for the construction of roads by local assessment, county and State aid.