Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer

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Journal of Horticulture Office, 1898
 

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Side 248 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Side 84 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Side 130 - April 6th concurrently in different parts of the United Kingdom, a centre being established wherever a magistrate, clergyman, schoolmaster, or other responsible person accustomed to examinations would consent to superintend one on the Society's behalf and in accordance with the rules laid down for its conduct. No limit as to the age, position, or previous training of the candidates was imposed, and the examination was open to both sesee.
Side 102 - Kingston, had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Side 58 - To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished each various species of tree and shrub. The venerable oak, the romantic beech, the useful elm, even the aspiring circuit of the lime, the regular round of the chesnut, and the almost moulded orangetree, were corrected by such fantastic admirers of symmetry.
Side 79 - ... reaching, and only second to this came rainfall. The leading effects of snow, wind, and sunshine, as well as of prolonged droughts, severe frosts, and persistent rains were also described. He then dealt with the influence of different important weather changes on such farm crops as Wheat, roots, and grass, as well as on fruit trees, vegetables, and flowering plants in the garden.
Side 210 - I come to Hatfield before twelve o'clock, and walked all alone to the Vineyard, which is now a very beautiful place again ; and coming back I met with Mr. Looker, my Lord's gardener (a friend of Mr.
Side 210 - This judgment I have of you: that you will not be corrupted with any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the state, and that without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel that you think best...
Side 79 - ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE Annual General Meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday evening, the 2ist instant, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, Mr.
Side 203 - Through wood and stream and field and hill and Ocean A quickening life from the Earth's heart has burst As it has ever done, with change and motion, From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos; in its...

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