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A. D. Wood Apples awarded Azaleas B. G. Smith beautiful best display best four best six best twelve Beurre bloom Boston Brookline bushels C. E. Grant C. M. Atkinson C. N. Brackett C. N. S. Horner Cambridgeport Chairman collection color Committee crop cultivation Cut Flowers E. M. Gill E. S. Rand ferns fertilizers Fillebrown foliage fourth best Francis Parkman fruit G. W. Pierce garden George George W grapes Gratuities greenhouse growing grown H. H. Hunnewell hardy Hovey Hovey & Co inches J. B. Moore J. H. Fenno James Comley James Nugent James O'Brien John Joseph Josiah Crosby Joyce M'Intosh manure Massachusetts Horticultural Society Miss A. C. Wheeler Miss S. W. Story named varieties native orchids Pears pelargoniums plants pots President Parkman prize Prof rose season second best seed seedlings soil species specimens squash Stockbridge Strawberries third best trees vines Walter Russell West Roxbury Wilder William Gray winter
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Página 107 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 136 - Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo.
Página 38 - Secondly, although insects, or remains of insects are generally found in old knots, in most cases, no insects at all are found in them when young. Thirdly, the insects that have been found by entomologists in the knots are not all of one species, but of several different species, which are also found on trees that are never affected by the knot. On the other hand, we never have the black knot without the Sphaeria morbosa, and the mycelium of that fungus is found in the slightly swollen stem, long...
Página 112 - The great beneficent la\v regulating these absorptions appears to admit of the following expression : those bodies — which are most rare and precious to the growing plant are by the soil converted into, and retained in, a condition not of absolute, but of relative insolubility, and are kept available to the plant by the continual circulation in the soil of the more abundant saline matters.
Página 33 - Roman style to flight, and driven us, perhaps, into danger of going too far after nature. The winding walks, the turfy lawns, the bowery shrubberies, the green slopes to the margin of waters, the retention of rocks and thickets where they naturally stood — all this is very beautiful, and many a sweet elysian scene do they spread around our English homes. But in imitating nature we are apt to imitate her as she appears in the rudest places, and not as she would modify herself in the vicinity of...
Página 46 - There is perhaps no branch of the subject under consideration which demands more attention by the engineer than that of the reduction of road grades to the minimum under all practicable circumstances. We can better afford to increase the length of a road considerably than to retain grades, in places, so heavy that a team is unable to haul more than half, or perhaps one-quarter, the load it can on all the remainder of it.
Página 9 - Detroit board of education as a whole, and to its members and officers individually, for the kind as well as unique hospitality extended to us. Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the department, and that a copy of the same be transmitted by the secretary to the Detroit board of education. The resolutions were adopted by a rising vote. A vote of thanks was also extended to the secretary of the department for his efficient and faithful services. President Peres then announced...
Página 4 - ... and I will include more, the cultivation of those ' home plants, your children, in virtue, morality and temperance: to teach, assist and encourage all who are engaged in any of these pursuits is the mission of horticultural societies. Horticulture is a gracious art which, through all time, has been a symbol of peace ; an art joined in closest ties with nature, and her helper in the daily miracle by which she clothes the earth in beautiful garments. Her amiable genius ranges the world with indefatigable...
Página 138 - Plants of the United States, East of the Mississippi, and of the Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of North America, North of Mexico.
Página 28 - ... that they are founded on very opposite qualities; the one on smoothness, the other on roughness; - the one on gradual, the other on sudden variation; - the one on ideas of youth and freshness, the other on that of age, and even of decay ... These are the principal circumstances by which the picturesque is separated from the beautiful.