The Minnesota Horticulturist: Annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Volume 24Bruce Publishing Company, 1896 |
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Page 319 - Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!
Page 467 - To entitle a new fruit to the award or commendation of the society, it must possess (at least for the locality for which it is recommended) some valuable or desirable quality or combination of qualities, in a higher degree than any previously known variety of its class and season.
Page 432 - Following out the divine injunction, they try " to prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good.
Page 224 - The apple is such a common fruit that few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medicinal properties. Everybody ought to know that the very best thing they can do is to eat apples just before going to bed. The apple is excellent brain food because it has more phosphoric acid, in an easily digestible shape than any other fruit known. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. It also agglutinates...
Page 323 - SEC. 4. Whenever any person or persons shall supply the necessary funds therefor, so that no cost or expense shall accrue to the state, the forestry commission is hereby authorized to buy any tract of land and devote the same to the purposes of a public park.
Page 323 - ... state, the forestry commission is hereby authorized to buy any tract of land and devote the same to the purposes of a public park. If they cannot agree with the owners thereof as to the price, they may condemn the same under the powers of eminent domain, and the value shall be determined as in the case of lands taken for highways, with the same rights of appeal and jury trial. On the payment of the value as finally determined, the land so taken shall be vested in the state, and forever held for...
Page 136 - ... are biennial. The fungus living on the latter has a similar life period, even though it is not entirely parasitic on its host. PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY Very little has been done by previous investigators on the pathological histology of raspberry affected with anthracnose. Scribner (1888) states that " the greatest injury is confined to the cambium layer, or the portion through which the sap is conveyed in the process of growth.
Page 449 - Spain eats a peach or pear by the roadside, wherever he is, he digs a hole in the ground with his foot and covers the seed. Consequently, all over Spain, by the roadsides and elsewhere, fruit in great abundance tempts the taste and is ever free. Let this practice be imitated in our country, and the weary wanderer will be blest, and- will bless the hand that ministered to his comfort and joy.
Page 467 - The name of a fruit should preferably express, as far as practicable by a single word, a characteristic of the variety, the name of the originator, or the place of its origin. Under no ordinary circumstances should more than a single word be employed. Rule 4. — Should the question of priority arise between different names for the same variety of fruit, other circumstances being equal, the name first publicly bestowed will be given precedence.
Page 232 - It is needless to remind you that the matter you refer to the Academy is important and difficult. No subject upon which the Academy has been asked before by the government for advice compares with it in scope, and it is the opinion of thoughtful men that no other economic problem confronting the government of the United States equals in importance that offered by the present condition and future fate of the forests of western North America.