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... regard to these I will quote Lord Bacon's saying — Some books also may be read by deputy " and I am very sure that any information so gained will , in this Society at least , come to the surface for the benefit of us all . The Committee ...
... regard to these I will quote Lord Bacon's saying — Some books also may be read by deputy " and I am very sure that any information so gained will , in this Society at least , come to the surface for the benefit of us all . The Committee ...
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... regard , then , to our building , we find that the accommo- dations for our books are quite insufficient , that two at least of our exhibitions have outgrown the floor space of the halls , that social and business changes have rendered ...
... regard , then , to our building , we find that the accommo- dations for our books are quite insufficient , that two at least of our exhibitions have outgrown the floor space of the halls , that social and business changes have rendered ...
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... regard to the Rogers grapes . The Barry , Wilder , and others succeed with him almost as well as any varieties except the Concord and Moore's Early . Charles Downing preferred the Wilder to any other native grape . The Lindley is ...
... regard to the Rogers grapes . The Barry , Wilder , and others succeed with him almost as well as any varieties except the Concord and Moore's Early . Charles Downing preferred the Wilder to any other native grape . The Lindley is ...
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... regard to the quality and productiveness of the soil , sim- ilarly enthusiastic descriptions are given . In 1629 Rev. Francis Higginson wrote , " The aboundant encrease of corne proves this countrey to bee a wonderment . . . What will ...
... regard to the quality and productiveness of the soil , sim- ilarly enthusiastic descriptions are given . In 1629 Rev. Francis Higginson wrote , " The aboundant encrease of corne proves this countrey to bee a wonderment . . . What will ...
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... regard to Forest Fires has since been enacted by the Legislature of Massachusetts , in accordance with a petition presented by a Committee appointed by this Society . preservation , that private owners of wood are not allowed 34 ...
... regard to Forest Fires has since been enacted by the Legislature of Massachusetts , in accordance with a petition presented by a Committee appointed by this Society . preservation , that private owners of wood are not allowed 34 ...
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00 Second Agricultural Annual apples awarded Azaleas beautiful Benjamin G blooms Boston Brackett bulbs C. M. Hovey Cattleyas cemetery Cephas H Charles Charles N chrysanthemum collection color Committee crop cultivation culture Cut Flowers Cypripediums David Allan Dendrobiums E. M. Gill Edwin Fewkes Edwin Sheppard exhibitions F. B. Hayes feet foliage forest Francis fruit garden George Hill George W Gladioli grapes Gratuities greenhouse ground grow growers grown growth H. H. Hunnewell hardy HERBACEOUS holden at 11 Horticultural Society inches J. B. Moore Jackson Dawson John L. P. Weston land M. W. Chadbourne manure Marshall Massachusetts Horticultural Society named varieties native nitrogen orchids P. D. Richards pamphlet pears plants plates pots President prize Rhododendrons Samuel Hartwell season seed seedling showed shrubs soil species specimens tion trees vegetable vines W. A. Manda W. W. Rawson WALCOTT Warren Fenno Warren Heustis Wilder William William Doran William H winter wood-cuts yellow
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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.