Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, Τόμος 17Illinois State Horticultural Society., 1883 |
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A. C. Hammond acres annual meeting apple trees Arthur Bryant bark bearing beautiful Ben Davis berries better blackberries bloom Bloomington Bryant buds called cherries climate cold committee condition crop cultivation Davis disease Duchess Duchess of Oldenburg early experience farmers favorable feet Floriculture flowers forest frost Fruit Grower Galusha garden give grapes ground growing grown growth hardy healthy Horticultural Horticultural Society horticulturist hundred Illinois injury insects Kankakee killed L. E. Cunningham labor land larvæ Manteno Milo Barnard Minkler motion nature Northern Illinois Norway spruce nurseryman orchard paper Paris green Parker Earle peach pear plant plum prairie premium present President productive Prof profitable pruning question raspberries ripening root-grafted roots season Secretary seed seedlings small fruits soil species spring strawberries success summer Sweet timber tion top-worked varieties vegetables Villa Ridge vines Winesap winter worms
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Σελίδα 296 - 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 handyworks...
Σελίδα 323 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Σελίδα 229 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
Σελίδα 373 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Σελίδα viii - Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Macoupin, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Richland, Randolph, St. Clair, Saline, Union, Wayne, White, Washington, Williamson, and Wabash (41). SEC. 3. The affairs of the Illinois State Horticultural Society shall be managed by an Executive Board, to consist of the President and Secretary of said Society, and the President and one...
Σελίδα 143 - God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.
Σελίδα 177 - The by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of members present providing a copy of such amendment has been sent to all members at least 30 days prior to the meeting.
Σελίδα 177 - III. Its Members shall consist of Annual Members, paying an annual fee of one dollar; of Life Members, paying a fee of...
Σελίδα ix - Board shall publish annually, at the expense of said Society, a report of its transactions and such other papers as they may deem of value to Horticulture and Arboriculture. Four members of the Executive Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 6. Members of the several District Societies shall be entitled to all the privileges of the members of the State Society, except that of voting for officers.
Σελίδα 336 - Hindoos have a proverb founded on this peculiarity of the leaves, to the effect that the good and virtuous man is not enslaved by passion nor polluted by vice; for though he may be immersed in the waters of temptation, yet, like a lotus leaf, he will rise uninjured by them.