Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Pomological Society of Michigan, Volumen 4By Authority, 1875 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
acre Agricultural apple bark Battle Creek bearer beautiful berry Beurre Black branches buds bushels cherry Class codling moth color committee Concord corn covered crop cultivation culture curculio currants Delaware early East Saginaw Entomologist fair farm farmers feet flavor flesh flowers foliage fruit garden Golden Russet Grand Traverse Grand Traverse county grape green ground grow grower grown growth hardy horticultural Ilgenfritz inches insects Ionia Ionia county juicy Kalamazoo Kent county lake land larvæ leaves manure maple meeting Michigan Monroe moth Northern Spy Old Mission orchard Ottawa county Parmelee pear Phylloxera plants plow plum Pomological Society pomologists potatoes President productive profitable pruning quince raspberries rich ripening roots rows Russet Saginaw City season second premium Secretary seed seedling September soil South Haven specimens spring squash sweet tender Traverse City varieties vines vineyard wheat wine winter wood worm yellow
Pasajes populares
Página 115 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before : Thine eye shall be instructed ; and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight, Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Página 363 - Vaugeot," and this is the hill and these are the vines that yield a wine rivalling in excellence and value that of Medoc, and to the fortunate proprietor the Coté d'or is what it signifies,
Página 189 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months...
Página 6 - This Constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided such amendment shall have been first recommended by the Board, or a year's notice shall have been given.
Página 317 - Upon this point a large number of observations have been made, which will be described in another place. The roots of all plants growing on ordinary soil develop most freely and absorb most abundantly when the earth is well drained and aerated. Thus we find that the crude sap imbibed by the root-hairs from the surface of the particles of the soil seems to be taken up in .a dry state, that is, it appears to be absorbed molecule by molecule, no fluid water being visible, and carried in this form through...
Página 317 - Thus we find that the crude sap imbibed by the root-hairs from the surface of the particles of the soil seems to be taken up in .a dry state, that is, it appears to be absorbed molecule by molecule, no fluid water being visible, and carried in this form through all the cellulose membranes between the earth and the leaf, by which it is to be digested or exhaled. We do not say this is literally true, but it accords very nearly with what is constantly to be seen in some species of plants. The circulation...
Página 374 - By-laws may be changed or amended at any regular meeting of the Society, by a two-thirds vote of the members present — notice of such intention having been given at a previous meeting.
Página 8 - Article, may be permitted to join the Society u*pon the same terms with those who are, by the consent of the Board of Managers, approved by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting of the Society. ART. 8. Any number of Life Members, resident elsewhere than in Honolulu, pledging not less than $25 annually to the Treasury of this Society, may form an "Auxiliary...
Página 177 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow...
Página 36 - I therefore made the following experiment: on shaking it well, I caught five curculios; on jarring it with the hand, I caught twelve more; and on striking the tree with a stone, eight more dropped on the sheets. I was now convinced that I had been in an error; and calling in the necessary assistance, and using a hammer to jar the tree violently, we caught, in less than an hour, more than two hundred and sixty of these insects.