Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1896 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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... vegetable garden may be made the most interesting and delightful place imaginable . Usually it is simply a field of vegetables fully exposed from all points of the ground and very often unsightly . Now the vegetable garden should be ...
... vegetable garden may be made the most interesting and delightful place imaginable . Usually it is simply a field of vegetables fully exposed from all points of the ground and very often unsightly . Now the vegetable garden should be ...
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... vegetable gardens , and in fact , with all the beauties and gifts of Nature , so useful and necessary to mankind . From ... vegetables were improved by selection and various pro- cesses of culture . Books were written ; societies were ...
... vegetable gardens , and in fact , with all the beauties and gifts of Nature , so useful and necessary to mankind . From ... vegetables were improved by selection and various pro- cesses of culture . Books were written ; societies were ...
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... vegetables , while two fountains furnished water in an ornamental manner . Of the gardens of ancient times those of Babylon were the most remarkable . These were built about 2000 B. C. and were considered one of the wonders of the world ...
... vegetables , while two fountains furnished water in an ornamental manner . Of the gardens of ancient times those of Babylon were the most remarkable . These were built about 2000 B. C. and were considered one of the wonders of the world ...
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... vegetables , that he was accused before the Senate of practising magic , and was obliged to justify himself by showing them his tools . " These , " said he , " are the imple- ments of magic which I use ; but I cannot show you the care ...
... vegetables , that he was accused before the Senate of practising magic , and was obliged to justify himself by showing them his tools . " These , " said he , " are the imple- ments of magic which I use ; but I cannot show you the care ...
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... vegetables or other foods which are poisonous to others . Professor George F. H. Markoe said many important discoveries had been made in toxicology ; one of which was that all decom- posing organic matter develops poisonous alkaloids ...
... vegetables or other foods which are poisonous to others . Professor George F. H. Markoe said many important discoveries had been made in toxicology ; one of which was that all decom- posing organic matter develops poisonous alkaloids ...
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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.