Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri, Volume 41The Society, 1898 |
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... color , odor and sizes . A variety is not the same as a species but is one of the series of forms which are included under some specific name . Thus the peach and apricot are different species , while the peach and nectarines are ...
... color , odor and sizes . A variety is not the same as a species but is one of the series of forms which are included under some specific name . Thus the peach and apricot are different species , while the peach and nectarines are ...
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... color of its fruit , etc. the evidence of these stimuli thus applied to the living substance , and thus give us evidence which we may recognize by sight , taste , smell and feeling of the ever varying conditions of the plants which are ...
... color of its fruit , etc. the evidence of these stimuli thus applied to the living substance , and thus give us evidence which we may recognize by sight , taste , smell and feeling of the ever varying conditions of the plants which are ...
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... color , etc. , which we have set and wish to maintain , and this condition has resulted not from the de- terioration of the originally standard product , but from our failure to keep up the supply of standard plants by careful and ...
... color , etc. , which we have set and wish to maintain , and this condition has resulted not from the de- terioration of the originally standard product , but from our failure to keep up the supply of standard plants by careful and ...
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... color , or form of pods , productiveness , susceptibility to rust or other aberrance . In fact , any of the variations which we would select were we now trying to create a new plant instead of trying to hold true to an ideal of a ...
... color , or form of pods , productiveness , susceptibility to rust or other aberrance . In fact , any of the variations which we would select were we now trying to create a new plant instead of trying to hold true to an ideal of a ...
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... color , flavor , and other desira- ble qualities all at the same time , for such an attempt is almost certain to fail , while by concentrating your energies and attention with intelligent selection on the most desired quality success ...
... color , flavor , and other desira- ble qualities all at the same time , for such an attempt is almost certain to fail , while by concentrating your energies and attention with intelligent selection on the most desired quality success ...
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Page 76 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 135 - No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil ! The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until occasion tells him what to do; clings And he who waits to have his task marked out Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
Page 210 - Your voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor "Weep without woe, and blush without a crime...
Page 310 - 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.
Page 212 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Page 212 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 210 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 122 - That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the class, and that they be published in The Tech.
Page 396 - If you have, put it where you cannot find it ; for we are going to water this garden with a rake ! We want you to learn, in this little garden, the first great lesson in farming, — how to save the water in the soil. If you learn that much this summer, you will know more than many old farmers do.
Page 311 - Not useless are ye, Flowers! though made for pleasure: Blooming o'er field and wave, by day and night, From every source your sanction bids me treasure Harmless delight.