The New Gardening: A Guide to the Most Recent Developments in the Culture of Flowers, Fruits, and VegetablesDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 400 ページ |
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191 ページ - HOURS fly, Flowers die New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not.
380 ページ - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
5 ページ - A GUIDE TO THE MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CULTURE OF FLOWERS, FRUITS, AND VEGETABLES BY WALTER P.
214 ページ - ... army in order of battle. They will then act as they were wont to act in the native forest. Trees never feel themselves really trees nor perform their duty until they are there in numbers. Then, at once, everything is transformed: sky and light recover their first deep meaning, dew and shade return, peace and silence once more find a sanctuary.
95 ページ - It is proved to be one of the best, if not the very best, of manures; and it is only the fearful ten pounds per ton which makes it so comparatively little used.
193 ページ - Count that day lost whose low descending sun Sees from thy hand no worthy action done.
191 ページ - Shadow and sun, so too our lives are made Yet think how great the sun, how small the shade.
388 ページ - Histoire de 1'Electricitd," pp. 84 and 85; "Biographic Ge'ne'rale," Vol. XXX. pp. 179-182. AD 1746. — Maimbray (M.), of Edinburgh, electrified two myrtle trees, during the entire month of October 1746, and found that they put forth small branches and blossoms sooner than other shrubs of the same kind which had not been electrified.
214 ページ - ... What we can thus imagine in connection with the most successful of English gardens thrusts itself upon us with much greater cogency the moment we have to do with those little city parks the extent of which is no longer large enough to extenuate their absurdities. The great fault, the great mistake of all our municipal gardeners is their dread of the tree. They seem to forget that, at the bottom of man's heart, amid his obscurest, but most powerful instincts, reigns his boundless yearning for...
60 ページ - The seed is then ready to sow. It may be stored, but in so doing it is liable to renewed smut infection. The best way is to treat, dry, then sow as soon as is practicable. In general, one gallon of mixture will suffice to treat one bushel of grain. The formalin should be used at the rate of one ounce to three gallons of water. Formalin is an irritating caustic, which should not be brought into contact with the skin in pure form. In diluted condition it is harmless. If you try this treatment simply...