Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1896 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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... methods of treatment ; and to proper treatment is largely due the excellence of the ware . Our bank in Cambridge contains a very superior quality of clay for flower pots . Unfor- tunately for us , it also contains very many small stones ...
... methods of treatment ; and to proper treatment is largely due the excellence of the ware . Our bank in Cambridge contains a very superior quality of clay for flower pots . Unfor- tunately for us , it also contains very many small stones ...
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... method which he finds gives him the best results . These methods vary with the class of mechanics available , and also with the customs in vogue in the various sections of the country . No set order that I could describe would meet with ...
... method which he finds gives him the best results . These methods vary with the class of mechanics available , and also with the customs in vogue in the various sections of the country . No set order that I could describe would meet with ...
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... method affords equal ventilating con- veniences , and the advantage gained by hinging to the ridge and relieving the bars of the weight of the sash is so obvious that this method is recognized as the standard , although there may be ...
... method affords equal ventilating con- veniences , and the advantage gained by hinging to the ridge and relieving the bars of the weight of the sash is so obvious that this method is recognized as the standard , although there may be ...
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... methods of construction ; and without question , the easiest , quickest , cheapest , and in every way the most satisfactory means of doing this is to consult some prominent and progressive firm of horticultural architects and builders ...
... methods of construction ; and without question , the easiest , quickest , cheapest , and in every way the most satisfactory means of doing this is to consult some prominent and progressive firm of horticultural architects and builders ...
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... Methods of Glazing , etc. There is only one perfect method of glazing for greenhouse work , and that is with light wooden bars , and the glass bedded in suitable putty . The bars should be so rabbeted as to leave a V shape , the putty ...
... Methods of Glazing , etc. There is only one perfect method of glazing for greenhouse work , and that is with light wooden bars , and the glass bedded in suitable putty . The bars should be so rabbeted as to leave a V shape , the putty ...
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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.