The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 27Luther Tucker, 1872 - Gardening |
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Page 285 - ... provided, that said applicant at the same time files with said assessors a correct plan of such land with a description of its location, and a statement of all the facts in relation to the growth and cultivation of said incipient forest; provided further, that such grove or plantation of trees is during that period kept alive and in a thriving condition.
Page 155 - ... the leaves like fine lace-work, owing to black bugs that skip around and can't be caught. Somebody ought to get up before the dew is off (why don't the dew stay on till after a reasonable breakfast?) and sprinkle soot on the leaves. I wonder if it is I. Soot is so much blacker than the bugs that they are disgusted and go away. You can't get up too early if you have a garden. You must be early due yourself, if you get ahead of the bugs. I think that, on the whole, it would be best to sit up all...
Page 54 - It is the bunch, or joint, or snake-grass, — whatever it is called. As I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden, — name things as I find them. This grass has a slender, beautiful stalk : and when you cut it down, or pull up a long root of it, you fancy it is got rid of; but in a day or two it will come up in the same spot in half a dozen vigorous blades. Cutting down and pulling up is what it thrives on. Extermination rather helps it. If you...
Page 285 - ... successfully cultivates the same for three years, the trees being not less in numbers than two thousand on each acre and well distributed over the same, then, on application of the owner or occupant thereof to the assessors of the town in which such land is situated, the same shall be exempt from taxation for twenty years after...
Page 370 - Coffee-trees (Gymnocladus) nor Yellow-wood (Cladrastis) ; nothing answering to Hydrangea or Witch-hazel, to Gum-trees (Nyssa and Liquidambar), Viburnum or Diervilla; it has few Asters and Golden-rods ; no Lobelias; no...
Page 155 - The principal value of a private garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessor vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues, — hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation. The garden thus becomes a moral agent, a test of character, as it was in the beginning.
Page 74 - There sometimes alone, and sometimes mingled with the willow, which is found along all these waters, it contributes singularly, by its magnificent foliage, to the embellishment of the scene. The brilliant white of the leaves beneath forms a striking contrast with the bright green above ; and the alternate reflection of the two surfaces in the water heightens the beauty of this wonderful moving mirror, and aids in forming an enchanting picture ; "which," says " Michaux, during my long excursions in...
Page 370 - Magnolia nor tulip trees, nor star-anise tree ; no so-called Papaw (Asimina) ; no barberry of the common singleleaved sort ; no Podophyllum or other of the peculiar associated genera ; no Nelumbo nor white water-lily ; no prickly ash nor sumach ; no loblolly-bay nor Stuartia ; no basswood nor...
Page 155 - The love of rural life, the habit of finding enjoyment in familiar things, that susceptibility to Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in her homeliest nooks and by her commonest sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or its equivalents.
Page 151 - Bert has placed several plants under bell-glasses of different colored glass set in a warm greenhouse. At the end of a few hours a difference was already apparent ; those subjected to green, yellow, or red light had the petioles erect and the leaflets expanded ; the blue and the violet, on the other hand, had the petioles almost horizontal and the leaflets hanging down. In a week those .placed beneath blackened glass were alre'ady less sensitive, and in twelve days they were dead or dying.