Report of the Maryland State Horticultural Society, Volume 12The Society, 1910 - Fruit-culture |
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Page 54 - The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all.
Page 102 - On mercy's missions trust your timid germ To the cold cradle of eternal snows ? Or, breathing on the callous icicles, Bid them with tear-drops nurse ye? Tree nor shrub Dare that drear atmosphere ; no polar pine Uprears a veteran front ; yet there ye stand, Leaning your cheeks against the thick-ribbed ice, And looking up with brilliant eyes to Him Who bids you bloom unblanched amid the waste Of desolation.
Page 102 - YE field flowers ! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, Yet, wildings of Nature, I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old. When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight. And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.
Page 140 - The cultivation of flowers is. of all the amusements of mankind, the one to be selected and approved as the most innocent in itself, and most perfectly devoid of injury or annoyance to others ; the employment is not only conducive to health and peace of mind, but probably more good-will has arisen and friendships been founded by the intercourse and communication connected with this pursuit than from any other whatsoever...
Page 140 - ... secured alone by morning care, by evening caution, and the vigilance of days : an employ, which in its various grades, excludes neither the opulent nor the indigent, and, teeming with boundless variety, affords an unceasing excitement...
Page 141 - To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth.
Page 73 - The undersigned committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Treasurer, beg leave to report that...
Page 160 - In addition to the severe injury that this pest will occasion to fruit, shade and forest trees, and the consequent enormous cost of fighting it, there is another feature connected with its presence, that is very troublesome if not alarming ; that is the danger to the health of the people.
Page 141 - Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeding to understand.— Theodore Parker.
Page 160 - ... receptive to the hairs. A large part of the popular feeling in New England that the brown-tail moth must be exterminated is due quite as much to the prevalence and annoyance of this rash as to the loss of vegetation from the work of the caterpillars.