Journal, Volume 3International Garden Club, 1919 |
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... closely related things , natives of the Mexican Highlands from the region of Chihuahua far beyond the City , and cultivated and even naturalized in many places as far south as Oaxaca . Its ponderous joints and deep red to maroon ...
... closely related things , natives of the Mexican Highlands from the region of Chihuahua far beyond the City , and cultivated and even naturalized in many places as far south as Oaxaca . Its ponderous joints and deep red to maroon ...
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... closely related ones are more common than any other except possibly Opuntia microdasys , which is horticulturally similar . The spe- cies is tremendously variable and inhabits a territory fully as diverse , stretching from the San ...
... closely related ones are more common than any other except possibly Opuntia microdasys , which is horticulturally similar . The spe- cies is tremendously variable and inhabits a territory fully as diverse , stretching from the San ...
Page 66
... closely . It may be infested with this pest . Oyster Shell scale can be seen with the naked eye . The young shoots will be covered with a very small shell - shaped scale , sometimes so close together that they overlap each other like ...
... closely . It may be infested with this pest . Oyster Shell scale can be seen with the naked eye . The young shoots will be covered with a very small shell - shaped scale , sometimes so close together that they overlap each other like ...
Page 106
... closely allied , if indeed , as I am inclined to think , the one is not merely a local form of the other . On reaching the hollow for which I was bound , I was re- warded by the sight of flowers on all sides , patches of Gentiana ...
... closely allied , if indeed , as I am inclined to think , the one is not merely a local form of the other . On reaching the hollow for which I was bound , I was re- warded by the sight of flowers on all sides , patches of Gentiana ...
Page 166
... closely allied . Cephalotus , Pinguicula and Utricularia are somewhat farther removed , the first belong- ing to the Cephalotaceae and the last two to Lentibulariaceae . Bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris Lentibulariaceae An insectivorous ...
... closely allied . Cephalotus , Pinguicula and Utricularia are somewhat farther removed , the first belong- ing to the Cephalotaceae and the last two to Lentibulariaceae . Bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris Lentibulariaceae An insectivorous ...
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Page 37 - You say there is no substance here, One great reality above: Back from that void I shrink in fear And child-like hide myself in love; Show me what angels feel. Till then I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal choirs, Unwearied voices, wordless strains; My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remembered tones.
Page 36 - I can forgo, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above: Back from that void I shrink in fear, And child-like hide myself in love : Show me what angels feel. Till then, I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips...
Page 277 - Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense...
Page 118 - 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...
Page 327 - That for the purpose of this act the term " nursery stock " shall include all field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots.
Page 268 - The principle upon which the Letchworth Park Arboretum is established is that it shall consist of a permanent collection of the various species of the world's timber trees likely to thrive in this northern climate, planted scientifically, to test their value and illustrate the processes of development, so supplying not only knowledge for knowledge's sake, but also knowledge for practical use.
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Page 277 - If this be so when we are merely putting together words or colours, how much more ought the feeling to prevail when we are in the midst of the realities of things; of the beauty and harmony, of the joy and happiness of living creatures; of men and children, of birds and beasts, of hills and streams, and trees and flowers; with the changes of night and day, evening and morning, summer and winter; and all their unwearied actions and energies...
Page 37 - Back from that void I shrink in fear, And childlike hide myself in love : Show me what angels feel. Till then, I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, Unwearied voices, wordless strains : My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remembered tones. Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot pass away ; All beauteous things for which we live By laws of time and space decay. But oh,...
Page 327 - America, and other foreign countries and localities, certain injurious insects, including fruit and melon flies (Tephritidae), new to and not heretofore widely distributed within and throughout the United States, which affect and may be carried by fruits and vegetables commercially imported into the United States or brought to the ports of the United States as ships...