Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 17The Society., 1878 |
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... experienced the full fruition of his desires , especially in the fruit crop , yet he has much for which to be thankful . The promise in early spring of a bountiful fruit crop was greatly dispelled by the severe frosts on the last day of ...
... experienced the full fruition of his desires , especially in the fruit crop , yet he has much for which to be thankful . The promise in early spring of a bountiful fruit crop was greatly dispelled by the severe frosts on the last day of ...
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... experience with strawberries , blackberries , and raspberries , during the past season . I sold about one hundred and twenty bushels of strawberries in Muncie , at a net average price of ten cents per quart . Picked the first berries on ...
... experience with strawberries , blackberries , and raspberries , during the past season . I sold about one hundred and twenty bushels of strawberries in Muncie , at a net average price of ten cents per quart . Picked the first berries on ...
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... experience with many new varieties at the end of another season . Green Prolific and Kentucky are the only varieties that have been this season uniformly productive under all circum- stances ; in beds mulched and highly cultivated , or ...
... experience with many new varieties at the end of another season . Green Prolific and Kentucky are the only varieties that have been this season uniformly productive under all circum- stances ; in beds mulched and highly cultivated , or ...
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... experience with Col. Cheney ? There are some objections to Col. Cheney ; it is rather acid and watery , not good for market , and has short stems . Have success with the Kentucky ; am trying Captain Jack . The white grub worm destroyed ...
... experience with Col. Cheney ? There are some objections to Col. Cheney ; it is rather acid and watery , not good for market , and has short stems . Have success with the Kentucky ; am trying Captain Jack . The white grub worm destroyed ...
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... experience of just such men as he . We meet to learn from each other . In regard to the white grub , we need more light on entomology ; we need to learn all we can of the habits of various insects , that we may guard against their ...
... experience of just such men as he . We meet to learn from each other . In regard to the white grub , we need more light on entomology ; we need to learn all we can of the habits of various insects , that we may guard against their ...
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Page 10 - Any person violating the provisions of this section shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Page 125 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 6 - The Treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay •out the same only on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President.
Page 61 - THE mothers of our forest-land ! Stout-hearted dames were they ; With nerve to wield the battle-brand, And join the border-fray. Our rough land had no braver, In its days of blood and strife — Aye ready for severest toil, Aye free to peril life.
Page 61 - Their bosoms pillowed men ! And proud were they by such to stand, In hammock, fort, or glen ; To load the sure old rifle — To run the leaden ball — To watch a battling husband's place, And fill it should he fall.
Page 117 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 11 - Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. SEC. 2. As used in this Act the term "person...
Page 61 - MY GOD! thy boundless love I praise : How bright on high its glories blaze ! How sweetly bloom below ! It streams from thine eternal throne ; Through heaven its joys for ever run, And o'er the earth they flow. 2 'Tis love that paints the purple morn, And bids the clouds, in air upborne, Their genial drops distil ; In every vernal beam it glows, And breathes in every gale that blows, And glides in every rill. 3...
Page 11 - ... any game, whether deer, quails, pheasants, woodcock, wild duck, or prairie chickens, which shall have been killed, taken, or captured, or held in violation of the provisions of this Act. shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of...
Page 2 - March 10, 1880; examined by the Governor, and transmitted to the Secretary of State, to be filed and preserved in his office, and published as may be ordered by the Commissioners of the Public Printing and Binding.