The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volumen24

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Hovey and Company, 1858

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Página 415 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Página 161 - And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that // was good.
Página 161 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruittree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 47 - Every man's proper mansion house and home, being the theatre of his hospitality, the seat of self-fruition, the comfortablest part of his own life, the noblest of his son's inheritance, a kind of private princedom, nay, to the possessors thereof, an epitome of the whole world, may well deserve by these attributes, according to the degree of the master, to be decently and delightfully adorned.
Página 354 - Each contributor is requested to make out a complete list of his contributions, and present the same with his fruits, that a report of all the varieties entered may be submitted to the meeting as soon as practicable after its organization.
Página 474 - Whate'er it be, I love it well ; A name, methinks, that surely fell From poet, in some evening dell, Wandering with fancies sweet.
Página 63 - The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Página 257 - Fences of some kind being one of the recognized institutions of our country, and the majority of our best farms being destitute of rock for walls, and being rapidly divested of timber for wooden fences, foreign materials, whether of boards or iron, present themselves as candidates for public favor : and I here beg to offer that agreeable alternative — the useful, the economical, the practical, and at the same time, the ornamental, LiveFence or Hedge.
Página 407 - There are now twelve hundred trees, planted in various years, more than one half of which since 1854. The amount received for his crop from that date to the present, has been from five to six hundred dollars a year, but he remarks, " If I had confined myself to a judicious selection of varieties, it would now bring me two thousand dollars per year.
Página 156 - It is hotter than our wheat, and clammy; excellent in cataplasms, to ripen any swelling or impostume. The decoction of the blew corn is good to wash sore mouths with. It is light of digestion; and the English make a kind of loblolly of it [53] to eat with milk, which they call sampe. They beat...

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