The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volume 26Hovey and Company, 1860 |
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Page 554 - Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Page 411 - Blanda is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it was gathered by Sir Joseph Banks; was sent to Miller in 1754 by Van Royen from Holland, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden.
Page 255 - Home Administration will, where appropriate, assist eligible producers with soil and water conservation loans, water facility loans, and other loans needed to effectuate the program. During the past few months there has been a great deal of discussion among farm leaders, local, State, and Federal agency people concerning the authorized long-range program for this Great Plains area. Such groups at the State level have developed preliminary plans for putting the program in action as soon as the authorized...
Page 105 - ... are affected by external violence, folding their upper surfaces together, and in part over each other, like scales, or tiles, so as to expose as little of the upper surface as may be to the air ; but do not, indeed, collapse quite so far; for when touched in the night during their sleep, they fall still further; especially when touched on the foot-stalks between the stems and the leaflets, which seems to be their most sensitive, or irritable part. Now as their situation after being exposed to...
Page 233 - Territorial limits of the yearly meeting; that a committee of three be appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws ; and that a convention be called at the village of Jackson to consider...
Page 42 - ... discoloration of paper wet with a solution of hydriodate of potash in starch suspended in the upper part of the tube. Professor Peirce gave some account of his computation of the mass of Neptune from the motions of its satellite. Three Hundred and first Meeting. December 7, 1847. — MONTHLY MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. The committee to whom was referred the "Programme for the Organization of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page 423 - Maestricht, by the same, was read, and the thanks of the Society were voted for the same. The mountain of St.
Page 104 - Naturalists (says Dr. Darwin) have not explained the immediate cause of the collapsing of the sensitive plant; the leaves meet and close in the night, during the sleep of the plant, or when exposed to much cold in the day-time, in the same manner as when they are affected by external violence, folding their upper surfaces together...
Page 450 - In selecting these plants, care must be taken, that there are not too many of the male plants amongst them : for as these bear no fruit, they are apt to make more runners than the females. I consider one male to ten females the proper proportion, for an abundant crop. I learned the necessity of mixing the male plants with the others, by experience in 1809; I had, before that period, selected female plants only for my beds, and was entirely disappointed in my hopes of a crop.
Page 554 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...