Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Volume 23Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 1893 - Fruit-culture |
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A. L. Hatch acres annual meeting apples Arbor Day B. S. HOXIE Baraboo barrel beautiful berries better blackberries bloom Bordeaux mixture cent committee cranberry crop cultivation E. S. Goff early Eau Claire Evansville evaporation exhibit experience farm farmers feet flowers foliage forest forestry fruit growers garden give Golden Russet grapes ground grow grown growth hardy Hirschinger Horticultural Society inches insects J. M. Edwards J. S. HARRIS Janesville Kellogg land leaves M. A. Thayer Madison maple mulching nursery O. C. Cook orchard pine plants premium President produced Prof pruning raspberries roads roots roses rows rust Sauk county season Secretary seedlings Shiocton shrubs small fruit soil Sparta spraying spring Springer strawberries sweet timber tion trees varieties Warfield Waupaca county West Salem winter Wisconsin State Horticultural wood Zettel
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Page xxii - The by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of...
Page 51 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 48 - And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Page 257 - ... them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting. You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle.
Page 257 - I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from those around it? The others shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs so that their whole weight may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting.
Page 47 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 257 - There is a mother-idea in each particular kind of tree, which, if well marked, is probably embodied in the poetry of every language. Take the oak, for instance, and we find it always standing as a type of strength and endurance. I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from those around it ? The others shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak defies it.
Page 51 - Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine ; Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom...
Page 54 - How pleasant to me thy deep blue wave, O sea of Galilee ! For the glorious One who came to save Hath often stood by thee.
Page xxv - Society; twenty-five copies to each county agricultural society and district industrial association which embraces two or more counties and furnishes the State Agricultural Society a report of its proceedings; one hundred copies to the State Horticultural Society...