Vick's Monthly Magazine ..., Volume 9J. Vick., 1886 - Floriculture |
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Page 6 - The roots, like parsnips, salsify are the better for the winter freeze, but part of the crop should be dug in the fall, and stored in soil or moss in a cellar for winter use.
Page 193 - The specimens tested were rectangular in outline, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. These were dried in a water bath (temp.
Page 116 - The island is well watered. There are about 100 rivers, which take their rise in the mountains, and run, commonly with great rapidity, to the sea, on both sides of the island. None of them are navigable, except for boats. Black River is the deepest, and has the greatest current.
Page 278 - The following persons were elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing year.
Page 359 - West soon came to us for membership, and they asked us to extend our territorial limits to embrace all of the horticultural interests of the continent, from ocean to ocean. After much deliberation, this was done at our large meeting in New Orleans, so that we are now in name, as we had been for years before in membership and in the spirit of our work, AN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
Page 313 - ... leaves, some being upright and the others pendent, giving an elegant and agreeable aspect to the scene. Nothing else near the cabin indicates cultivated land. At this sight the spirits of the traveller revive ; he collects his strength, and is soon beneath the hospitable roof.
Page 73 - Murstock, with a quiet smile, "but, of course, one has to take life as it comes and make the best of it.
Page 92 - ... it is certainly borrowed from the French, and may, I think, be deduced from this simple analogy. The French call their April fish (Poissons d'Avril, ) — silly mackerel, or" simpletons, which suffer themselves to be caught in this month. But, as with us," he continues, " April is not the season of that, fish, we have very properly substituted the word — fools.
Page 21 - London. American exhibition, 1887. The American exhibition of the arts, inventions, manufactures, products and resources of the United States of America.
Page 92 - Bonnet affirms that, before fecundation, the hen's egg contains an excessively minute but complete chick ; and that fecundation and incubation simply cause this germ to absorb nutritious matters, which are deposited in the interstices of the elementary structures of which the miniature chick, or germ, is made up. The consequence of this intussusceptive growth is the " development" or "evolution" of the germ into the visible bird.