Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 17The Society., 1878 |
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... insect specimens or birds as are injurious or beneficial to horticultural products in this State , with such floral speci- mens and representations as shall be collected by such Association , all of which articles , and such others as ...
... insect specimens or birds as are injurious or beneficial to horticultural products in this State , with such floral speci- mens and representations as shall be collected by such Association , all of which articles , and such others as ...
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... insect enemies of fruit is usually in inverse proportion to the amount of fruit ; hence we may not expect so many of these as usually succeed a bountiful crop . Nature , always ready to compensate in one direction for losses in another ...
... insect enemies of fruit is usually in inverse proportion to the amount of fruit ; hence we may not expect so many of these as usually succeed a bountiful crop . Nature , always ready to compensate in one direction for losses in another ...
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... insect enemies increase in an inverse ratio . That when the equilibrium , established by an all - wise Creator between birds and their principal food , the insects , is destroyed , just then the insect steps in and curses the authors of ...
... insect enemies increase in an inverse ratio . That when the equilibrium , established by an all - wise Creator between birds and their principal food , the insects , is destroyed , just then the insect steps in and curses the authors of ...
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... Insects have done great damage to the fruit crop and trees for several years , but have diminished very perceptibly for the past year or two , except the curculio , which still holds the fort . Secretary Ragan also submitted a ...
... Insects have done great damage to the fruit crop and trees for several years , but have diminished very perceptibly for the past year or two , except the curculio , which still holds the fort . Secretary Ragan also submitted a ...
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... insects , that we may guard against their ravages . MR . OHAVER - Asked how would saw dust do for a mulch ? DR . FURNAS - Another home for the white grub . W. H. RAGAN - Objects to saw dust . It contains acids injurious to the plants ...
... insects , that we may guard against their ravages . MR . OHAVER - Asked how would saw dust do for a mulch ? DR . FURNAS - Another home for the white grub . W. H. RAGAN - Objects to saw dust . It contains acids injurious to the plants ...
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Adam Jones adornment Allen Furnas animals annual meeting appointed Association beautiful berries birds blackberries bugs cabbage worm committee Conical county-Collected crop cultivation culture Daniel Cox dark December 18 Dessert discussion English sparrow essay exhibition Fair farm farmer flowers forests friends frost garden grapes green ground grow grower H H H H PVigorous habits Hendricks county horticulturists Indiana Horticultural Society Indianapolis insects interest J. C. Ratliff Jesse White kind kitchen and market L. B. Custer labor Large live mulch orchards organism peach pears Plainfield plants premium present President Prof Purdue University quails raspberries Richmond season Secretary Seedling session Seth W Slender small fruits soil sportsmen spreading strawberries Striped Sub acid Sweet Sylvester Johnson Table and kitchen Table and market tion Treasurer trees upright vegetables W. H. Ragan Wayne county White winter Yellow
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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.
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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...
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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.