Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51The Society, 1899 - Gardening Includes list of members. |
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00 Second 00 Third A. T. Brown Aaron Low agriculture apple Arthur F awarded B. P. Cheney beautiful blooms Boston Brookline Bussey Institution C. G. Weld C. L. Hartshorn Carnation Cattleya Chairman Charles Charles F Chrysanthemum color columbine Committee crop cultivation Cypripedium disease Display E. C. Lewis E. M. Gill E. S. Converse Estate exhibition farm feet Fern Fletcher foliage fruit fungus Gardner George George D George Hollis George McWilliam growing grown growth H. H. Hunnewell H. R. Kinney hundred indusia insects J. E. Rothwell Jamaica Plain James Comley John John L Joseph LECTURE AND DISCUSSION Massachusetts Horticultural Society MEETING FOR LECTURE Miss Moore named varieties nitrogen Oakes Ames orchard peach potatoes President Rea Brothers Rhododendron roadside roots Roxbury rust School Gardens season seed Seedling soil species Sumner Coolidge Tomatoes trees Twelve specimens Varnum Frost vases vegetables W. N. Craig Warren Clark Warren Fenno Warren Heustis William Winter
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Page 44 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Page 43 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. 'An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
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Page 84 - We alighted and sat down under a rock to contemplate them. These trees are the most renowned natural monuments in the universe ; religion, poetry, and history, have all equally celebrated them.
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Page 152 - That the proper authorities make some provision for the recognition of the untiring efforts of the gardeners who have exerted their skill and knowledge to perfect for their employers the magnificent specimen plants that are shown throughout the year at our exhibitions. CATTLEYA x HARDYANA, Young's Var. It may not be out of place at this time to make some mention of the weekly exhibits of James E. Rothwell (John Mutch, gardener), and HA Wheeler, who have done much toward making our Saturday displays...