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... inches deep . In nine months they grew nine feet high , while in the Hawaiian Islands it would take eighteen months ... inches or two feet high in the swamps , or fifteen inches on upland . The Central American rice is of A TRIP TO THE ...
... inches deep . In nine months they grew nine feet high , while in the Hawaiian Islands it would take eighteen months ... inches or two feet high in the swamps , or fifteen inches on upland . The Central American rice is of A TRIP TO THE ...
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Massachusetts Horticultural Society. inches on upland . The Central American rice is of far better quality than that produced in the United States , but there is no hulling machine in the country . Figs grow rapidly , and the foreign ...
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. inches on upland . The Central American rice is of far better quality than that produced in the United States , but there is no hulling machine in the country . Figs grow rapidly , and the foreign ...
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... inches thick , and a ladder was required to pick it . This was in latitude 15 ° on the Atlantic . The rainy season lasts about nine months ; every night during that time it rains so heavily that an umbrella is of no use . The dry season ...
... inches thick , and a ladder was required to pick it . This was in latitude 15 ° on the Atlantic . The rainy season lasts about nine months ; every night during that time it rains so heavily that an umbrella is of no use . The dry season ...
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... inches by ten and thirty feet long . He could not get them without resorting to his ornamental trees , and so he cut out alternate trees ; some of which showed annual rings three - quarters of an inch in thickness . The larch holds its ...
... inches by ten and thirty feet long . He could not get them without resorting to his ornamental trees , and so he cut out alternate trees ; some of which showed annual rings three - quarters of an inch in thickness . The larch holds its ...
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... inches in each direction . The bulbs are put as nearly four inches apart as I can easily do it . I drop them from a basket or a box as I walk along the row , there being no need of stooping to put them in place because , the earth being ...
... inches in each direction . The bulbs are put as nearly four inches apart as I can easily do it . I drop them from a basket or a box as I walk along the row , there being no need of stooping to put them in place because , the earth being ...
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Page 364 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so. ' And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that // was good.
Page 238 - That life was happy ; every day he gave Thanks for the fair existence that was his ; For a sick fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her phantom miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him.
Page 34 - The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 365 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 362 - Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles, that, in dewy splendor, " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O, may I deeply learn, and ne'er surrender, Your lore sublime.
Page 125 - ... as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. The rule as to depth of planting already given for coniferous seeds holds good also for broadleaf species.
Page 238 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set?
Page 30 - Boston, in regard to the collocation of institutions on the Back Bay lands, where the splendid edifices of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now stand. Of the latter institution he has been a vice-president, and the chairman of its Society of Arts, and a director from the beginning.
Page 371 - Florula cestrica; an essay towards a catalogue of the phaenogamous plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the borough of West Chester, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, with brief notices of their properties and uses in medicine, rural economy and the arts: to which is subjoined an appendix of the useful cultivated plants of the same district.
Page 33 - Berlin which will long be remembered by all who had the good fortune to be admitted to it.