Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri, Volume 43The Society, 1901 |
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... experience for the benefit of all and also of what they gain to take away . The wealth of a nation is the measure and result of its intelligence . Horticul- turists are producers , investigators and thinkers . We are glad to have you ...
... experience for the benefit of all and also of what they gain to take away . The wealth of a nation is the measure and result of its intelligence . Horticul- turists are producers , investigators and thinkers . We are glad to have you ...
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... experience of seven years . I first bought two small tracts of land , one in a good farming section and the other on the white oak ridges of Grand river . Perhaps no two small tracts contain a greater variety of soil . The principal ...
... experience of seven years . I first bought two small tracts of land , one in a good farming section and the other on the white oak ridges of Grand river . Perhaps no two small tracts contain a greater variety of soil . The principal ...
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... experience with the woolly aphis , the codling moth , the canker worm , the mouse and the rabbit . All kinds of remedies for the prevention and destruction of the borer have been suggested by those interested or not interested , but ...
... experience with the woolly aphis , the codling moth , the canker worm , the mouse and the rabbit . All kinds of remedies for the prevention and destruction of the borer have been suggested by those interested or not interested , but ...
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... experience . He will advise others to enter the horticultural field , when he well knows a competition will thus be set up . But horticulture has its rewards . It is a noble calling . It suggests Paradise with its beautiful gardens . It ...
... experience . He will advise others to enter the horticultural field , when he well knows a competition will thus be set up . But horticulture has its rewards . It is a noble calling . It suggests Paradise with its beautiful gardens . It ...
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... raising strawberries for home use alone . I have no experience in propagating plants for setting and believe the average farmer should always pur- chase his plants of a reputable grower . Such has 28 State Horticultural Society .
... raising strawberries for home use alone . I have no experience in propagating plants for setting and believe the average farmer should always pur- chase his plants of a reputable grower . Such has 28 State Horticultural Society .
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Page 125 - Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well : and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
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