Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1896 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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... Washington for copies of the pre - historic shapes and to give an account of our success in reproducing from the grand collection of Gen. Cesnola , and from his discoveries in ancient tombs at _ Idalium . Cyprus , of forms which were ...
... Washington for copies of the pre - historic shapes and to give an account of our success in reproducing from the grand collection of Gen. Cesnola , and from his discoveries in ancient tombs at _ Idalium . Cyprus , of forms which were ...
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... Washington in 1892 , I spent several hours in the greenhouses of the various departments , in company with a prominent member of the Horticultural Society , who had never happened to visit the city before . To a certain extent I had ...
... Washington in 1892 , I spent several hours in the greenhouses of the various departments , in company with a prominent member of the Horticultural Society , who had never happened to visit the city before . To a certain extent I had ...
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... Washington , it being there , I believe , that the original experiments were first made , and the good results discovered . Ventilation . Ventilating conveniences play a very important part in the furnishing of a greenhouse , the usual ...
... Washington , it being there , I believe , that the original experiments were first made , and the good results discovered . Ventilation . Ventilating conveniences play a very important part in the furnishing of a greenhouse , the usual ...
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... Washington some time ago , he visited the conservatory at the White House , and also other structures of the National Government , and was struck by the intense whiteness of the interiors after five to seven years ' use . Upon inquiry ...
... Washington some time ago , he visited the conservatory at the White House , and also other structures of the National Government , and was struck by the intense whiteness of the interiors after five to seven years ' use . Upon inquiry ...
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... Washington taught him , that effects are always the results of causes , by writing the lad's name in a garden bed , and sowing therein cabbage seeds , which germinating , soon appeared to the boy's great amazement , until his father ...
... Washington taught him , that effects are always the results of causes , by writing the lad's name in a garden bed , and sowing therein cabbage seeds , which germinating , soon appeared to the boy's great amazement , until his father ...
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00 Second A. T. Brown Aaron Low Annual Report beautiful Benjamin Benjamin G blooms blue Boston Brookline Bulletin Bussey Institution C. G. Weld Charles Chrysanthemum Coburn Committee crop cultivation culture cuts Display E. M. Gill edible exhibition Experiment Station fertilizers flowers foliage fruit fungi fungus Gardner George George W germination grafting grass Gratuities gray greenhouse growers growing growth H. H. Hunnewell H. R. Kinney hardy insects Isaac E Jamaica Plain James Comley John John Simpkins Joseph Joshua Kidder LECTURE AND DISCUSSION London manure Massachusetts Horticultural Society MEETING FOR LECTURE mushroom named varieties Nathaniel nitrogen Oakes Ames orchards Pamph Pamphlet Park phosphoric acid plants potash pots prize produce Rhododendrons Roses Roxbury Samuel G Samuel Hartwell season Secretary seed Seedling shrubs soil species specimens Sumner Coolidge tomato trees Twelve vases vegetables W. N. Craig Warren Fenno Warren Heustis Washington William winter wood
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Page 116 - Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Page 116 - And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Page 38 - To bear all smooth and even, This sudden sending him away must seem Deliberate pause; diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.
Page 395 - Index Kewensis: an enumeration of the genera and species of flowering plants from the time of Linnaeus to the year 1885 inclusive, together with their authors' names, the works in which they were first published, their native countries, and their synonyms.
Page 95 - It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners in each county, whenever it shall deem it necessary, to cause an inspection to be made of any orchards, or nursery, or trees, plants, vegetables, vines, or fruits, or any fruitpacking house, storeroom, salesroom, or any other place or articles in their jurisdiction, and if found...
Page 117 - For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree ; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree...
Page 39 - Th' autumnal bulb, till pale, declining days ? The GOD of SEASONS ; whose pervading power Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower : He bids each flower His quickening word obey, Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay.
Page 36 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Page 407 - List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without cultivation in northeastern North America, prepared by a Committee of the Botanical Club, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Page 169 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.