 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1845 - 504 pages
...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...trees, and resorted also to planting seed. That which, at first, sprang from necessity, has been continued from habit, and from an erroneous opinion that... | |
 | 1845 - 584 pages
...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...settlers could not bring trees from Kentucky, Virginia or Pennsylvania—and, as the next resort, brought and planted seeds of popular apples. A later population... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1859 - 420 pages
...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...settlers could not bring trees from Kentucky, Virginia or Pennsylvania—and, as the next resort, brought and planted seeds of popular apples. A later population... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1874 - 520 pages
...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...found no nurseries to supply the awakening demand for fruit-trees, and resorted also to planting seed. That which, at first, sprang from necessity, has been... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1903 - 680 pages
...exhibitions. All the classic apples of your orchards are planted here, but are yet on probation. SEEDLINOS NOT DESIRABLE. Nothing can exhibit better the folly...trees, and resorted also to planting seed. That which at first sprang from necessity, has been continued from habit, and from an erroneous opinion that seedling... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1906 - 800 pages
...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 frnit for a main supply than our experience in this matter. The early settlers could not bring trees... | |
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... 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... 