Trees, Fruits, and Flowers of MinnesotaThe Society, 1904 |
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Page 451 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Page 30 - ... become known that the reports of much of the seismological investigations carried on in Japan will hereafter be published in the Japanese language only, and Whereas, This procedure is calculated to deprive most of the American students in this field of research of the advantages of this literature, be it Resolved, That this matter be brought to the attention of the National Research Council in the hope that the Council may provide that this literature be rendered into English, also that provision...
Page 454 - Full of the birds' replies! Paradise woods in Spring, Scarcely than Earth's were sweeter , Every leafs on the wing, All a-flutter, a-glitter. Paradise woods in commotion, Tossed in a heavenly May ; After the bitter ocean, Dear and homelike were they. Lord of the world to be, Build me no jasper palace, But the young leaf on the tree, And the young bloom on the trellis I //.— TALISMAN.
Page 31 - ... necessary to survey, plan, or locate, or supervise the construction or repair of, the improvements necessary to carry out the purposes for which the district was formed; to construct, maintain and keep in repair any and all improvements, requisite or necessary to carry out the purposes of the district; and to do any and all other acts and things necessary or required for the protection of the lands in said district from damage from storm waters and from waters of any innavigable stream, watercourse,...
Page 30 - That a committee of three be appointed by the president, of which he shall be chairman, to present in person a copy of these resolutions to his Excellency, Governor Van Sant.
Page 222 - That any person liable to road tax, who shall transplant to the side of the public highway on his own premises any fruit, shade or forest trees, of suitable size, shall be allowed by the supervisor of roads or boards of supervisors of roads, where roads run through or adjoin cultivated fields, in abatement of his road tax, one dollar for every two trees set out...
Page 146 - Those who survey the work done in this department will arrive at the conviction that, among all the numerous experiments made, not one has been carried out to such an extent and in such a way as to make it possible to determine the number of different forms under which the offspring of hybrids appear, or to arrange these forms with certainty according to their separate generations, or definitely to ascertain their statistical relations.
Page 437 - ... but are not native to the United States, making in all so satisfactory a treatise that for many years it must remain our most reliable source of information in this line. In Dr. Pammel's Manual of Poisonous Plants, many medicinal weeds not of a poisonous nature are listed among the economic plants. The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a number of bulletins containing references to medicinal weeds, which are listed in the bibliography at the end of the volume. Many plants not...
Page 442 - ... of the wife of his bosom and the mother of his children, and in the affliction of our other brother, Mr.
Page 483 - AFTERNOON SESSION. The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by the President.