Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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Side 67 - Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.
Side 300 - Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Side 77 - ... to furnish what more is needed. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may itself yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. The rule in the purchase of costly commercial fertilizers should be to select those that supply, in the best forms and at the lowest cost, the plant-food which the crop needs and the soil fails to furnish.
Side 21 - Give fools their gold, and knaves their power ; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest ; And God and man shall own his worth Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth.
Side 344 - Maps showing the location of the diplomatic and consular offices of the United States of America, March 1, 1888.
Side 337 - Black Rot of the Grape Vine, with a chapter on the apparatus for applying remedies for these diseases.
Side 19 - ... turned to the best possible account ; but we must still go back to protoplasm as a naked formless plasma if we would find — freed from all non-essential complications — the agent to which has been assigned the duty of building up structure and of transforming the energy of lifeless matter into that of living.
Side 283 - Chloris Boreali-Americana. Illustrations of new. rare, or otherwise interesting North American Plants, selected chiefly from those recently brought into cultivation at the Botanic Garden of Harvard University.
Side 11 - Cowing moved that each county association be invited to send five delegates to the state meeting and that the secretary of the State association be instructed to notify the presidents of said associations to that effect: It was so voted. On motion of Superintendent Folsom of Dover, it was voted that the chair appoint a committee of five to revise the constitution of the State Association so that it shall meet the requirements of the report of the committee on "The Unification of the Educational Organizations...
Side 154 - We forget that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil.

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