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00 Second 00 Third A. E. Hartshorn A. T. Brown Aaron Low agriculture apple awarded B. P. Cheney blooms Boston Brookline Bussey Institution C. G. Weld Carnation Cattleya Chairman Charles W Chrysanthemum color Committee crop cultivation Cypripedium Display E. C. Lewis E. M. Gill E. S. Converse Estate exhibition F. W. Damon feet Fletcher flowers foliage Francis fruit fungus Gardner George George D George Hollis George McWilliam grower growing grown growth H. H. Hunnewell H. R. Kinney hardy hundred J. C. Stone J. E. Rothwell Jamaica Plain James Comley John John L Joseph Massachusetts Horticultural Society MEETING FOR LECTURE Moore mycelium named varieties nitrogen Oakes Ames orchard peach plums President Rea Brothers Rhododendron roadside Rose Roxbury rust School Gardens season Seedling soil species trees Twelve specimens Varnum Frost vases vegetables W. J. Clemson W. N. Craig Warren Clark Warren Fenno Warren Heustis William Winter wood
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Page 103 - New-England legends, one of the most popular, as well as one of the most...
Page 16 - ... to be the Blight in its early state. It is* however, notorious to all botanical observers, that the leaves of the barberry are very subject to the attack of a yellow parasitic fungus, larger, but otherwise much resembling the rust in corn. Is it not more than possible that the parasitic fungus of the barberry and that of wheat are one and the same species...
Page 43 - ... the secret of becoming dwarfed, gnarly, and cracked ; of the grapes that knew not how to rot, and the potatoes which had neither been blighted nor bitten by the Colorado beetle. Now all is changed : every crop has foes that often gather the lion's share of the harvest. The enemies have come from the north and the south, the east and the west...
Page 161 - Jose, duly seconded, it was voted that the Report of the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, presented at the Stated Meeting on the fifth of January and then postponed to this meeting, be taken up.
Page 146 - American Rose Society was laid on the table for the information of members. William C. Strong announced the arrangements for delegates to the twenty-sixth session of the American Pomological Society at Philadelphia on the 7th and 8th instant. The President announced the decease of Benjamin G. Smith, and it was voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to prepare a memorial. The Chair appointed as that Committee, Benjamin C. Clark, Theodore H. Tyndale, and Benjamin P. Ware. The Secretary...
Page 77 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 8 - Society, for the purpose of encouraging and improving the- science and practice of horticulture, and promoting the amelioration of the various species of trees, fruits, plants and vegetables, and the introduction of new species and varieties...
Page 137 - Estate," so-called, on Tremont, Bosworth, and Bromfield Streets, Boston, was then read and considered, and upon motion it was Voted, That the President, Francis H . Appleton, be, and he hereby is, authorized and instructed to execute, acknowledge and deliver in the name and behalf of the Corporation the deed which has just been read ; also to execute and accept a lease of the conveyed premises on such terms as he may consider proper.
Page 142 - That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the Society, and that a copy of them be sent to the family of the deceased.
Page 130 - Rotten section fioin rotted log of red spruce. the heart wood is finer and harder though invaded by the mycelium. The wood is also very much stained, brown irregular areas often marked off by black lines, or divided up into smaller areas by black lines. The mycelium also traveled upward in the newly established leader of the tree. From the trunk it had invaded many of the branches in the same way. As is usual in such cases a number of the branches had been killed. These dead branches then yielded...