Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Pomological Society of Michigan, Volume 9By Authority, 1880 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 10
Page 106
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . DIVISION E -- SPECIAL EXHIBITS OF PEACHES . The South Haven Pomological Society in class one showed 23 varieties all cor- rectly named . The entries were from Van Buren , Oceana , Washtenaw , Kent , Allegan ...
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . DIVISION E -- SPECIAL EXHIBITS OF PEACHES . The South Haven Pomological Society in class one showed 23 varieties all cor- rectly named . The entries were from Van Buren , Oceana , Washtenaw , Kent , Allegan ...
Page 107
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . DIVISION G - SPECIAL EXHIBITS OF PLUMS . In class 1 there was but one entry , but the ... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . Class 3. Exhibit of six varieties of plums for market by grower - First premium , E. J. Shirts ...
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . DIVISION G - SPECIAL EXHIBITS OF PLUMS . In class 1 there was but one entry , but the ... E. J. Shirts , Shelby . Class 3. Exhibit of six varieties of plums for market by grower - First premium , E. J. Shirts ...
Page 108
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; second premium , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing ; third premium , L. S. Ellis , Manistee . Primate First premium , Charles W. Wilde , Berlin . Large Yellow Bough - First premium , S. M. Pearsall , Grand Rapids ...
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; second premium , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing ; third premium , L. S. Ellis , Manistee . Primate First premium , Charles W. Wilde , Berlin . Large Yellow Bough - First premium , S. M. Pearsall , Grand Rapids ...
Page 109
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; third premium , F. M. Benham , Olivet . Peck's Pleasant - First premium , H. F. Thomas , Jackson ; second premi- um , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing ; third premium , D. W. Lytle , Lawton . Rhode Island ...
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; third premium , F. M. Benham , Olivet . Peck's Pleasant - First premium , H. F. Thomas , Jackson ; second premi- um , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing ; third premium , D. W. Lytle , Lawton . Rhode Island ...
Page 110
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; third premium , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing . In the class " any other worthy variety , " Messrs . Benham , Pearsoll and John Thomas took first premiums , and J. D. Perry , of Bell Branch , a second premium ...
... E. J. Shirts , Shelby ; third premium , C. A. Sessions , Sammons Landing . In the class " any other worthy variety , " Messrs . Benham , Pearsoll and John Thomas took first premiums , and J. D. Perry , of Bell Branch , a second premium ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Agricultural Allegan Allegan county annual apples Baldwin beautiful Berrien county berry better buds color committee Concord crop cultivation dessert Detroit disease E. J. Shirts early East Saginaw evergreens exhibition experience fair farm farmer favor fence flowers fruit growers fruit-growers garden give Golden Russet Grand Rapids Grand Traverse county grapes green ground grow grown growth hardy hedge Horticultural Horticultural Society inches insects interest Ionia county Kalamazoo Kalamazoo county L. G. Bragg meeting Monroe Muskegon Northern Lake Shore Northern Spy nurserymen orchard ornamental peach trees pear plants plates Pomological Society pomologists President productive Prof profitable pruning ripen roots Saginaw Saginaw county season second premium Secretary SECTION seed seedling Sept soil sorts South Haven Southern Lake specimens strawberries success Sweet thing third premium Tree vigorous Van Buren county varieties vines Wilson winter yellows
Popular passages
Page 213 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Page 217 - THE USE OF FLOWERS. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers.
Page 260 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 218 - Our outward life requires them not ; Then wherefore had they birth ? — To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth. To comfort man, — to whisper hope Whene'er his faith is dim ; For who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him ! THE WOODLAND SANCTUARY.
Page 363 - ... as soon as he becomes aware of the existence of such disease in any tree or fruit owned by him, to forthwith destroy or cause the same to be destroyed.
Page xii - 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.
Page 218 - Make your home beautiful, bring to it flowers, Plant them around you to bud and to bloom ; Let them give life to your loneliest hours, Let them bring light to enliven your gloom...
Page 364 - ... dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court; and any justice of the peace of the township or city where such trees may be, or where such nursery stock or fruit is sold, shipped, disposed of, or delivered as aforesaid, shall have jurisdiction thereof. The words "parts of trees," wherever used in this act, shall refer to black knot only, and not to trees affected with yellows.
Page 318 - The process of ripening on the tree, which is the natural one, seems to act upon the fruit for the benefit of the seed, as it tends to the formation of woody fibre and farina. When the fruit is removed from the tree, at the very commencement of ripening, and placed in a still atmosphere, the natural process seems to be counteracted, and sugar and juice are elaborated instead of fibre and farina. Thus, pears which become mealy and rot at the core when left on the tree to ripen, become juicy, melting,...
Page 363 - It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any peach, almond, apricot or nectarine tree infected with the contagious disease known as the yellows, or to offer for sale or shipment, or to sell or ship to others any of the fruit thereof...