Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1896 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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... effect that sometimes when the ox was busy a cow was substituted in his place . Personally I cannot vouch for such a statement ; but the old horse in the mill I shall never forget . When I had reached the mature age of six years I was ...
... effect that sometimes when the ox was busy a cow was substituted in his place . Personally I cannot vouch for such a statement ; but the old horse in the mill I shall never forget . When I had reached the mature age of six years I was ...
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... effect at all seasons and to have a succession of bloom so that the garden will never be dull or uninteresting . First , let us take the smallest garden that we can hope to make a gardening success with , that is , a fifty foot city or ...
... effect at all seasons and to have a succession of bloom so that the garden will never be dull or uninteresting . First , let us take the smallest garden that we can hope to make a gardening success with , that is , a fifty foot city or ...
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... effect should be preferred . Such bold and striking plants as single . Hollyhocks and Foxgloves should be planted in decided masses , and a border with eastern or southern exposure should be used for hybrid perpetual Roses . A vegetable ...
... effect should be preferred . Such bold and striking plants as single . Hollyhocks and Foxgloves should be planted in decided masses , and a border with eastern or southern exposure should be used for hybrid perpetual Roses . A vegetable ...
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... effect , when used as tree , shrub , hedge , or fence drapery . And then the Climbing Roses - what a glorious possibility here , with their showers of bloom in June . Climbers will not exhibit their best charms if trained in a stiff and ...
... effect , when used as tree , shrub , hedge , or fence drapery . And then the Climbing Roses - what a glorious possibility here , with their showers of bloom in June . Climbers will not exhibit their best charms if trained in a stiff and ...
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... effect entirely pleasing . There is nothing more charming in Nature than the combination of shrub or tree with wild vines . Who has not seen the living canopy of green formed by the wild grape over the top of some tree or the stronger ...
... effect entirely pleasing . There is nothing more charming in Nature than the combination of shrub or tree with wild vines . Who has not seen the living canopy of green formed by the wild grape over the top of some tree or the stronger ...
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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.