Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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Page 132 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Page 55 - Summer's green-emblazoned field, But in arms of brave old Autumn's wearing, In the centre of his brazen shield ; Not alone in meadows and green alleys, On the mountain-top, and by the brink Of...
Page 188 - In testimony whereof this chamber orders that the foregoing be entered at length on its book of records, and that a copy of the same be sent to the family of the deceased, with whom it is the nation's privilege to sympathize and mourn as for a common and irreparable loss.
Page 283 - RUST, SMUT, MILDEW, AND MOULD. An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi.
Page 287 - Montreal Horticultural Society and Fruit Growers' Association of the Province of Quebec.
Page 283 - Relazione sulla Cultura dei Cotoni in Italia, seguita da una Monografia del Genere Gossypium.
Page 70 - It was voted that a committee of five be appointed by the Chair to promote and co-operate in the development of printed catalog cards In relation with international arrangements.
Page 13 - Oh! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus?
Page 60 - One sometimes seems to discover a familiar wild flower anew by coming upon it in some peculiar and striking situation. Our columbine is at all times and in all places one of the most exquisitely beautiful of flowers; yet one spring day, when I saw it growing out of a small seam on the face of a great lichen-covered wall of rock, where no soil or...
Page 105 - Perth, observed many years ago, in a highland glen, an ash tree with yellow leaves ; and buds taken from this tree were inserted into common ashes, which in consequence were affected, and produced the Blotched Breadalbane ash.

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