Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Volume 34, Part 1879Reports for 1862-66 include reports of the Ohio Pomological Society. |
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... trees have been planted , rather for ornament than for utility . The taste for the comfort and beauty of trees is growing , however , and of the thousands who daily travel along our great high- ways , few are they who cannot admiringly ...
... trees have been planted , rather for ornament than for utility . The taste for the comfort and beauty of trees is growing , however , and of the thousands who daily travel along our great high- ways , few are they who cannot admiringly ...
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... tree - planters the cemeteries of our land are everywhere becoming the quiet resting places of the dead , sheltered by umbrageous trees , instead of the forlorn , desolate , and neg- lected fields of the past , so unworthy of the title ...
... tree - planters the cemeteries of our land are everywhere becoming the quiet resting places of the dead , sheltered by umbrageous trees , instead of the forlorn , desolate , and neg- lected fields of the past , so unworthy of the title ...
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... tree in the Middle American States , and with a southern limit very far beyond any of our Northern trees . " But let us now address ourselves more especially to the question before us : " Is it time for us in Ohio to plant trees for ...
... tree in the Middle American States , and with a southern limit very far beyond any of our Northern trees . " But let us now address ourselves more especially to the question before us : " Is it time for us in Ohio to plant trees for ...
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... trees and prostrated those princes of the forest which had for centuries reared their proud heads and reigned as monarchs of all they might survey . Those of us who have laboriously cleared the land of these encumbrances have triumphed ...
... trees and prostrated those princes of the forest which had for centuries reared their proud heads and reigned as monarchs of all they might survey . Those of us who have laboriously cleared the land of these encumbrances have triumphed ...
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... trees covered by several feet of sand , makes the following remark : " And so the astounding truth dawns upon us that this desert may once have been a region of groves and fountains , and the abode of happy millions . " * * * He asks ...
... trees covered by several feet of sand , makes the following remark : " And so the astounding truth dawns upon us that this desert may once have been a region of groves and fountains , and the abode of happy millions . " * * * He asks ...
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Page 457 - What Constitutes a State? WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men...
Page 457 - ... baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow...
Page 555 - At first small gray specks or elevated gray spots (glanders-nodules), varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, make their appearance (Fig.
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Page 634 - ... each road or railroad to be benefited thereby, the name of the owner of each lot or tract of land as it then...
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Page 457 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
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Page 639 - When the working sections of the improvement are let, as hereinbefore provided, and the costs and expenses of location and construction, and all compensation and damages are accertained, the commissioners shall meet and determine at what time, and in what number of assessments, they will require the same to be paid, and order that the assessments, as made by them, be placed on the duplicate...