Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, Volume 18

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Pagina 113 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Pagina 224 - I have seen orchards laden with fruit to admiration, their very limbs torn to pieces with the weight, and most delicious to the taste, and lovely to behold; I have seen an apple tree from a pippin kernel, yield a barrel of curious cyder...
Pagina x - Licenses shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they are issued.
Pagina 224 - Mississippi 150 years before having been under conditions not at all favorable either to the transportation or the planting of peach pits. Stacy writes from New Jersey: I have traveled through most of the places that are settled, and some that are not . and in every place I find the country very apt to answer the expectation of the diligent. I have seen orchards laden with fruit to admiration ; their very limbs torn to pieces by the weight, and most delicious to the taste and lovely to behold. I...
Pagina 162 - The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race.
Pagina 231 - ... removed the ensuing autumn, which must be done without fail, for if left again to bloom, it would impart the disease to many others in its vicinity ; care is also necessary, in its removal, to take out all the roots of the diseased tree, especially if another is to be planted in the same place, so that the roots of the tree to be planted may not come in contact with any of those of the one which was diseased. If your neighbour has trees infected with the yellows in a quarter contiguous to yours,...
Pagina 223 - ... overlooked for many years. Yellows is now more or less prevalent in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 'Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario. Very likely it occurs to a considerable extent in...
Pagina 206 - ... his own woods, prairies, or grounds, to the injury or destruction of the property of any other person, shall be...
Pagina 210 - It will be the purpose of this paper to show, that, within the maple belt, no other tree lays equal claims to the attention of those interested in the preservation of our forests, nor offers so good and economical means for the accomplishment of that purpose. To this end I shall endeavor to show: First, that the sugar maple fills all desirable conditions for forestry purposes better than does any other tree; second, that, everything considered, the maple sugar industry pays a better profit than does...
Pagina 79 - Caesar the reindeer, as well as the elk and the wild bull, was a native of the Hercynian forest, which then overshadowed a great part of Germany and Poland.

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