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... crop possible . You can keep birds away from your crops , but to battle with the insect host is beyond all human ingenuity . The golden winged woodpecker's resounding reveille came ringing over the countryside from the still leafless ...
... crop possible . You can keep birds away from your crops , but to battle with the insect host is beyond all human ingenuity . The golden winged woodpecker's resounding reveille came ringing over the countryside from the still leafless ...
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... crop , by destroying the spores before they are distributed from the first diseased plant . Many fungous diseases are somewhat local and can be readily removed , but rusts are deep - seated . Spraying at short intervals is the best ...
... crop , by destroying the spores before they are distributed from the first diseased plant . Many fungous diseases are somewhat local and can be readily removed , but rusts are deep - seated . Spraying at short intervals is the best ...
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... crop of bloom at least every other season . With nursery - grown plants to start with , the Kalmia is of the easiest culture , requiring no special soil or location , and it is perfectly hardy . Like all evergreen shrubs it should be ...
... crop of bloom at least every other season . With nursery - grown plants to start with , the Kalmia is of the easiest culture , requiring no special soil or location , and it is perfectly hardy . Like all evergreen shrubs it should be ...
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... crop of fools every year . " ous . The Origin of Grafting . - Grafting is of great antiquity . It is mentioned by several of the Greek authors - Theophrastus , Pliny , and others- but in a rather unsatisfactory manner . It is referred ...
... crop of fools every year . " ous . The Origin of Grafting . - Grafting is of great antiquity . It is mentioned by several of the Greek authors - Theophrastus , Pliny , and others- but in a rather unsatisfactory manner . It is referred ...
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... crops of the new varieties . Seedling hybrids of fruits , many of which would take at least ten or fifteen years to become fruit - bearing on their own roots , can be top - grafted on old trees and brought into bearing in a very few ...
... crops of the new varieties . Seedling hybrids of fruits , many of which would take at least ten or fifteen years to become fruit - bearing on their own roots , can be top - grafted on old trees and brought into bearing in a very few ...
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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.