Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1896 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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... manure . A lot of this size , planted so densely on its boundary , should have its lawn kept quite free and open and have only a few choice specimens planted on it and no large trees , except street trees on the edge of the sidewalk . I ...
... manure . A lot of this size , planted so densely on its boundary , should have its lawn kept quite free and open and have only a few choice specimens planted on it and no large trees , except street trees on the edge of the sidewalk . I ...
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... manure , etc. A walk should be laid out all around the garden five to six feet wide , with a border for flowers six feet wide between the walk and the hedge . There should be also two walks six feet wide crossing each other at right ...
... manure , etc. A walk should be laid out all around the garden five to six feet wide , with a border for flowers six feet wide between the walk and the hedge . There should be also two walks six feet wide crossing each other at right ...
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... manure , and that they should be prepared in late summer or fall , and the planting done the following spring . Fall ... manure being made . An annual mulching of manure is beneficial to both shrubs and hardy plants . I have had a ...
... manure , and that they should be prepared in late summer or fall , and the planting done the following spring . Fall ... manure being made . An annual mulching of manure is beneficial to both shrubs and hardy plants . I have had a ...
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... manure , and chopped straw was used , and is used by some even today ; and as it retains moisture better than the modern grafting wax it is recommended for coarse work and for covering large wounds in large operations . For grafting in ...
... manure , and chopped straw was used , and is used by some even today ; and as it retains moisture better than the modern grafting wax it is recommended for coarse work and for covering large wounds in large operations . For grafting in ...
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... Manure ? " both my regard for the ofttimes sensitive feelings of the fertilizer manufacturer , and my pride in my reputation as one who would like to be called a sound adviser , lead me to return evasive or very general replies ...
... Manure ? " both my regard for the ofttimes sensitive feelings of the fertilizer manufacturer , and my pride in my reputation as one who would like to be called a sound adviser , lead me to return evasive or very general replies ...
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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.