Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 42The Society, 1903 |
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... keeping of the funds of the Society . Article VIII . The seal of the Society shall consist of an outer rim , embracing the inscription , " Indiana Horticultural Society ; " within this , and above the central figure , consisting of a ...
... keeping of the funds of the Society . Article VIII . The seal of the Society shall consist of an outer rim , embracing the inscription , " Indiana Horticultural Society ; " within this , and above the central figure , consisting of a ...
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... keeping them . We now have cold storage within reach of every part of the State . Apples can be kept from summer to summer as good as they were when they came from the trees . This , you will readily see , gives us a chance to keep them ...
... keeping them . We now have cold storage within reach of every part of the State . Apples can be kept from summer to summer as good as they were when they came from the trees . This , you will readily see , gives us a chance to keep them ...
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... keeping house for me ; she climbs the trees and saws the limbs off when I direct her . Some people ask her if she is not ashamed to do that . She says : " I am not ashamed to do anything for grandpa . " I also have a grandson , and 32.
... keeping house for me ; she climbs the trees and saws the limbs off when I direct her . Some people ask her if she is not ashamed to do that . She says : " I am not ashamed to do anything for grandpa . " I also have a grandson , and 32.
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... keep eternally vigilant in pruning , culti- vating and the destroying of borers , and in some years , spraying for the prevention of curl leaf , and wait patiently upon each severe cold spell of winter to see whether it has left enough ...
... keep eternally vigilant in pruning , culti- vating and the destroying of borers , and in some years , spraying for the prevention of curl leaf , and wait patiently upon each severe cold spell of winter to see whether it has left enough ...
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... keep a high standard of quality by a thorough system of cultivation , pruning , thinning , and picking only thoroughly ripened fruit , as the difference between first class and poor stock often varies two hundred per cent.- the best ...
... keep a high standard of quality by a thorough system of cultivation , pruning , thinning , and picking only thoroughly ripened fruit , as the difference between first class and poor stock often varies two hundred per cent.- the best ...
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acres in nursery acres small fruits apple growing apple trees barrel bearing beautiful Ben Davis apples berries better blight branches buds Burton bushels C. M. Hobbs cent Central Indiana cold storage color County crop cultivation Daniel Cox Davis apples disease E. Y. Teas early farm farmers flowers forest fruit growers grapes green Greene County ground grown growth H. H. Swaim Hale Henry Ward Beecher Horticultural Indianapolis insects Jay County Keiffer Lagrange land lawn limbs Location locust Madison Marion Northern Indiana nursery stock orchard orchardist Osage orange package packing peach pear Pendleton picked plant plum President Stevens profitable pruning Ratliff ripen roots San Jose scale season Secretary shade trees shrubs soil South Bend spraying spring strawberry summer Sylvester Johnson things trim varieties vines W. B. Flick W. C. Reed W. W. Stevens Winesap winter Wolcottville
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Page 4 - Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding. CHAS. E. WILSON, Private Secretary. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, January 7, 1903.
Page 130 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 4 - Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE, INDIANAPOLIS, December 22, 1905.
Page 146 - God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.
Page 128 - HE who plants a tree Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free. So man's life must climb From the clods of time Unto heavens sublime. Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? He who plants a tree Plants a...
Page 259 - ... reputation with us ; the Rhode Island Greening is eaten for the sake of " auld lang syne;" the Roxbury russet is not yet in bearing — instead of it several false varieties have been presented at our exhibitions. All the classic apples of your orchards are planted here, but are yet on probation. Nothing can exhibit better the folly of trusting to seedling orchards for fruit, for a main supply, than our experience in this matter. The early settlers could not bring trees from Kentucky, Virginia...
Page 128 - He who plants a tree, He plants love; Tents of coolness spreading out above Wayfarers he may not live to see, Gifts that grow are best; Hands that bless are blest; Plant: Life does the rest!
Page 260 - Of all the number presented, not six have vindicated their claims to a name or a place — and not more than three will probably be known ten years hence. While, then, we encourage cultivators to raise seedlings experimentally, it is the clearest folly to reject the established varieties and trust to inferior seedling orchards. From facts which I have collected there has been planted, during the past year, in this State, at least one hundred thousand apple trees.
Page 259 - Doyenne) more nearly than any apple in our orchards, an enormous bearer — some limbs exhibited were clustered with fruit more like bunches of grapes than apples; Milam, favorite early winter; Rambo, the same. But the apple most universally cultivated is the Vandervere Pippin, only a second or third rate table apple, but having other qualities which quite ravish the hearts of our farmers. The tree is remarkably vigorous and healthy; It almost never fails in a crop. When others miss, the Vandervere...