Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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Page 201 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 117 - When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the college, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.
Page 191 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 382 - STEPHENS. The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, FieldWorker, and Cattleman.
Page 389 - The planter's guide; or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees...
Page 158 - It was not until the early part of the seventeenth century that any contrivance was devised for the more definite determination of heat.
Page 389 - Secretary of Agriculture. . Division of Pomology. Bulletin No. 4. Report on the relative merit of various Stocks for the Orange, with notes on Mai di Goma and the mutual influence of Stock and Scion.
Page 7 - The purpose of this citizens' group was to give Chicago clean air for visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893. In 1907, a Smoke Abatement Commission was appointed to make a study which resulted in a new ordinance that created the original Department of Smoke Abatement.
Page 396 - Grasses of the Southwest. Plates and Descriptions of the Grasses of the Desert Region of Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California.
Page 375 - The Silva of North America. A description of the Trees which grow naturally in North America, exclusive of Mexico.

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