American Gardening, Volume 11American Gardening Company, 1890 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
American Gardening: An Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and ..., Volume 15 Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
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Page 628 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 628 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Page 628 - was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness with himself and his horse.
Page 628 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Page 30 - ... foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried, but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to see the family of a shepherd,...
Page 390 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Page 41 - Cardinal." 4. When personal names are given to varieties, titles should be omitted; as, " Major," " General," " Queen.'' 5. The term "hybrid " should not be used, except in those rare instances in which the variety is known to be of hybrid origin. 6. The originator has the prior right to name the variety ; but the oldest name which conforms to these rules should be adopted.
Page 374 - Principia' lying on the grass, and thinking it had been brought from his own library, called some one to carry it back to its place. " Upon this," (the narrative proceeds) " Stone, who was then in his eighteenth year, claimed the book as his own. ' Yours ? ' replied the Duke. ' Do you understand Geometry, Latin, and Newton?' ' I know a little of them,
Page 41 - Improved, and the like, should be omitted. If the grower or dealer has a superior stock of a variety, the fact should be stated in the description immediately after the name, rather than as a part of the name itself ; as,
Page 53 - Three substances of the third class were applied, viz.: pyrethum, slug-shot, and peroxide of silicates. Pyrethum killed those beetles with which it came in contact, when first applied, but soon lost its efficiency. Slug-shot injured the plants to which it was applied. Peroxide of silicates had a decided effect in preventing injury, and where the plants had been well started before being attacked saved them from destruction. But it did not save them where the beetles were so numerous that they burrowed...