The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, Volume 25Thomas Meehan Charles H. Marot, 1883 - Gardening |
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Page 351 - ... Favorite, and other like useless and improper titles to our fruits. The cases are very few where a single word will not form a better name for a fruit than two or more. Thus shall we establish a standard worthy of imitation by other nations, and I suggest that we ask the co-operation of all pomological and horticultural societies, in this and foreign countries, in carrying out this important reform. As the first great national Pomological Society in origin, the representative of the most extensive...
Page 334 - If you had consulted common sense instead of the medical faculty you could probably have been well years ago. I can say nothing to you excepting this : You must take regular exercise, as much as you can bear without fatigue, as little medicine as possible, of the simplest kind, and this only when absolutely necessary, and a moderate quantity of plain food, of the quality which you find by experience best to agree with you. No man, not even a physician can prescribe diet for another.
Page 351 - Doyenne, Pearmain, Pippin, Seedling, Beauty, Favorite and other like useless and improper titles to our fruits. The cases are very few where a single word will not form a better name for a fruit than two or more. Thus shall we establish a standard worthy of imitation by other nations, and I suggest that we ask the co-operation of all pomological and horticultural societies, in this and foreign countries, in carrying out this important reform. As the first great national pomological society in origin,...
Page 124 - are round, some as large as a walnut, others much larger; they grow in damp soil, many hanging together, as if fixed on ropes ; they are good food, either boiled or roasted.
Page 371 - Wherever such a tree was cut down, and an opportunity afforded to count the circles, they would be found to correspond so nearly with the calculated age, as to prove that it was quite safe to assume a single circle for a single year. Then there was a remarkable degree of uniformity in the diameter of these annual growths in most trees, so that when once we had the number of...
Page 124 - Bicause it hath not onely the shape and proportion of Potatoes, but also the pleasant taste and vertues of the same, we may call it in English Potatoes of America, or Virginia.
Page 244 - ... shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Page 248 - ... season. The present season was one of unusually low temperature. There had not been spasmodic warmth enough to bring forward the particularly excitable maple tree blossoms. The hazel nut had not therefore had its male blossoms brought prematurely forward. He exhibited specimens from the same tree as last season, showing the catkins in a young condition of development, only half the flowers showing their anthers, while the female flower buds had their pretty purple stigmas protruding from nearly...
Page 243 - The entire supply (white pine) growing in the United States and ready for the axe does not to-day greatly, if at all, exceed 80,000,000,000 feet, and this estimate includes the small and inferior trees, which a few years ago would not have been considered worth counting. The annual production of this lumber is not far from 10,000,000,000 feet, and the demand is constantly and rapidly increasing.
Page 243 - Enough is now known of our forests to permit the positive statement that no great unexplored body of this Pine remains ; and that, with the exception of the narrow Redwood belt of the California coast, no North American forest can yield in quantity, any substitute for White Pine, the most generally valuable, and most generally used of American lumber.