Journal, Volume 3International Garden Club, 1919 |
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... early October . It is a low , prostrate , spreading , yellowish plant , whose main attraction is its flowers . Opuntia chlorotica santarita , from the Santa Rita Mountains . of Southern Arizona , is indeed handsome in early season when ...
... early October . It is a low , prostrate , spreading , yellowish plant , whose main attraction is its flowers . Opuntia chlorotica santarita , from the Santa Rita Mountains . of Southern Arizona , is indeed handsome in early season when ...
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... early days , Le Jardin de la Malmaison , the book begins with the following charming sentence : " Les poétes ont fondé dans l'opinion les seules monarchies héréditaries que le temps ait respectées : le lion est toujours le roi des ani ...
... early days , Le Jardin de la Malmaison , the book begins with the following charming sentence : " Les poétes ont fondé dans l'opinion les seules monarchies héréditaries que le temps ait respectées : le lion est toujours le roi des ani ...
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... earliest spring till latest fall . Much of this may be attributable to the prevalent notion that a flower garden is a thing apart by itself , a set arrangement of beds and borders formal or otherwise . Hardy Flowers are not less ...
... earliest spring till latest fall . Much of this may be attributable to the prevalent notion that a flower garden is a thing apart by itself , a set arrangement of beds and borders formal or otherwise . Hardy Flowers are not less ...
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... early part of July . At this season of the year it requires the greatest amount of care and watching in order to obtain perfect results . Thousands of plants are lost during the growing period from lack of water together with the ...
... early part of July . At this season of the year it requires the greatest amount of care and watching in order to obtain perfect results . Thousands of plants are lost during the growing period from lack of water together with the ...
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... early in the morning when the plants are covered with dew . If the oil is free , it will mix with the moisture upon the plants and the leaves will not be burnt . The arch enemy of the Buxus is the Monarthropalpus Buxi , commonly called ...
... early in the morning when the plants are covered with dew . If the oil is free , it will mix with the moisture upon the plants and the leaves will not be burnt . The arch enemy of the Buxus is the Monarthropalpus Buxi , commonly called ...
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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.
Page 91 - Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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...