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00 Second A. T. Brown A. W. Blake Aaron Low agriculture apple Arthur F awarded B. P. Cheney beautiful blooms Boston Brookline bulbs Bussey Institution C. G. Weld C. L. Hartshorn Chairman Charles chestnut Chrysanthemum color columbine Committee crop cultivation Cypripedium disease E. C. Lewis E. M. Gill E. S. Converse exhibition farm Fern Francis frond fruit fungi fungus Gardner George George D George Hollis George McWilliam growing grown growth H. H. Hunnewell H. R. Kinney hardy Hunnewell indusia insects J. E. Rothwell Jamaica Plain James Comley John Joseph LECTURE AND DISCUSSION manure Massachusetts Horticultural Society MEETING FOR LECTURE named varieties national flower nitrogen nuts Oakes Ames orchard parasite peach peas pinnæ pinnules potatoes President Rea Brothers roots Roxbury Samuel Hartwell School Gardens season seed Seedling soil sori species spores spraying Sumner Coolidge tomato trees vases vegetables vote W. N. Craig Warren Clark Warren Heustis William Winter
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Page 47 - 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.
Page 48 - 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 75 - 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 82 - Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're ^sleeping...
Page 117 - The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
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.
Page 43 - ... taking possession of the farmer's crops and enforcing their onerous demands without process of law, unless preventive measures are vigorously prosecuted. They are no respecters of persons ; like the rain, they fall upon the fields of both the just and the unjust. "The authorities best able to judge have estimated the annual loss in the United States due to these little pests at nearly half a billion dollars. Noxious insects, according to Dr. CV Riley, recently the distinguished entomologist of...
Page 70 - St;ites, only a part of the worms of the first brood pupate or transform to moths the same season, but in the central, western, and southern portions there is a complete second brood, and in some portions even a third brood of the worms annually. In the fall, all the worms spin cocoons wherever they...
Page 138 - 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 77 - The implements of this period were much like those of Ancient Greece, and they continued in use until about the time of our Revolutionary War. About the year 1534 appeared the first English treatise on agriculture, entitled the "Book of Husbandry," containing directions for draining, clearing, and enclosing a farm and for enriching and reducing the soil to tillage.