The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 7Luthur Tucker, 1852 |
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... wood which gives to nearly every farm a sufficiency for all the common wants of life , on the plains and heights of the old world . Wood there certainly is , and possibly enough to meet the ordinary wants of the different countries ...
... wood which gives to nearly every farm a sufficiency for all the common wants of life , on the plains and heights of the old world . Wood there certainly is , and possibly enough to meet the ordinary wants of the different countries ...
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... wood of this Taxodium is invaluable for timber - and is called by the settlers in that part of California where it grows - Red - wood - or bastard Cedar . Even in the midst of these thick forests , it attains a height of 180 feet . The ...
... wood of this Taxodium is invaluable for timber - and is called by the settlers in that part of California where it grows - Red - wood - or bastard Cedar . Even in the midst of these thick forests , it attains a height of 180 feet . The ...
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... wood and plain , who snuff danger in the wind , and who either evade it by their swiftness , or find a lurking place in every hedge row . We turn with pleasure from the illicit functions in which the monopoly of guilt and pro- fit is to ...
... wood and plain , who snuff danger in the wind , and who either evade it by their swiftness , or find a lurking place in every hedge row . We turn with pleasure from the illicit functions in which the monopoly of guilt and pro- fit is to ...
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... wood and bark lying between these inner and outer ducts and vessels . In time , during the season's growth , anastomosis takes place in the axilla of every such leaf ; a new wood bud is formed and installed upon the apex of the bundle ...
... wood and bark lying between these inner and outer ducts and vessels . In time , during the season's growth , anastomosis takes place in the axilla of every such leaf ; a new wood bud is formed and installed upon the apex of the bundle ...
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38 WOOD - PRODUCING FORCE , & c . , IN VEGETABLE LIFE . Dr. LINDLEY supposes -- or is brought about by some outward ... wood system - no more and no less : too great a diminution of the wood spurs has a tendency to over - stimulate the ...
38 WOOD - PRODUCING FORCE , & c . , IN VEGETABLE LIFE . Dr. LINDLEY supposes -- or is brought about by some outward ... wood system - no more and no less : too great a diminution of the wood spurs has a tendency to over - stimulate the ...
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Page 285 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 283 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 278 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 281 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 281 - Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Page 418 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 282 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 27 - Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation. But what was our astonishment when we discovered by degrees that not one lamb of the whole flock was wanting ! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising...
Page 282 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 312 - ... in order to give him habits of thought and mental discipline for the pulpit; yet, this is not half as ridiculous, in reality, as the reverse absurdity of attempting to educate the man of work in unknown tongues, abstract problems and theories, and metaphysical figments and quibbles.