Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 85
Page 270
... growth of the Cauliflower . Finer flowers than those shown by William H. Teele and A. M. Knowlton , both at this and the Annual Exhibition , are rarely seen . These gentlemen have for several years taken the lead at our exhibitions as ...
... growth of the Cauliflower . Finer flowers than those shown by William H. Teele and A. M. Knowlton , both at this and the Annual Exhibition , are rarely seen . These gentlemen have for several years taken the lead at our exhibitions as ...
Page 286
... 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 plants were gradually exposed to the light.
... 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 plants were gradually exposed to the light.
Page 287
... growth . When the wood was well ripened they were pruned , and they were started into growth the second week in January , 1893 , to produce the crop which we saw March 17. In every respect this house was a model of cleanliness ; the growth ...
... growth . When the wood was well ripened they were pruned , and they were started into growth the second week in January , 1893 , to produce the crop which we saw March 17. In every respect this house was a model of cleanliness ; the growth ...
Page 290
... growth , which at that time was considered to be six by eight feet . The soil is a coarse sandy loam , mixed with an abundance of stones from the size of peas to a foot in diameter , and underlaid , at a varying depth of from two to ...
... growth , which at that time was considered to be six by eight feet . The soil is a coarse sandy loam , mixed with an abundance of stones from the size of peas to a foot in diameter , and underlaid , at a varying depth of from two to ...
Page 292
... growth in New England . The great want of our grape growers is a variety that will ripen so early as to escape early ... growth of the vine . If the vines made but a small growth one 1 season , we have used in the next some 292 ...
... growth in New England . The great want of our grape growers is a variety that will ripen so early as to escape early ... growth of the vine . If the vines made but a small growth one 1 season , we have used in the next some 292 ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
00 Second 00 Third A. D. Wood Aaron Low Agriculture Annual Report apple awarded Benjamin G bloom Boston Botanic Brackett Brookline buds Bulletin Bussey Institution C. G. Weld Carnation Charles Charles E Chrysanthemum Collection colored plates Committee crop cultivation Cut Flowers E. M. Gill Exhibition experience feet foliage Francis Brown Hayes fruit fungi fungous fungus garden Gardner George glass grafting grape Gratuities gray green cloth greenhouse growers growing grown growth H. H. Hunnewell H. R. Kinney hardy Hunnewell inches insects Isaac E Jamaica Plain John Joseph H Kidder larvæ lettuce light London manure Massachusetts Horticultural Society mushrooms Nathaniel Pamphlet Park Pears plants pots Prizes purlin Rhododendrons Rose Roxbury Samuel Hartwell scion season Secretary seed Seedling shrubs soil species specimens spores tomato trees Varnum Frost vegetables vines Walter Russell Warren Fenno Warren Heustis Washington White William Doran William H Winter Brothers
Popular passages
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.