Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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Page 43
... pear- tree , apparently perfectly healthy , the minutest fungus- growth , developing rapidly , and probably causing , very soon after , the blight with which we are all familiar . I would not say " very soon after . " I think it may ...
... pear- tree , apparently perfectly healthy , the minutest fungus- growth , developing rapidly , and probably causing , very soon after , the blight with which we are all familiar . I would not say " very soon after . " I think it may ...
Page 68
... pears , improved grapes , improved strawberries , and all the rest , - that they are able to do this in consequence of a character- istic which was lodged in the germ millions of years ago ? Down in the deep rocks of the earth are found ...
... pears , improved grapes , improved strawberries , and all the rest , - that they are able to do this in consequence of a character- istic which was lodged in the germ millions of years ago ? Down in the deep rocks of the earth are found ...
Page 72
... pears become so large and delicious , their seeds are not as large or fully developed , and very likely there may be less of them ? And so of the grape . How far can this increase of pulp be carried ? You know that some oranges have no ...
... pears become so large and delicious , their seeds are not as large or fully developed , and very likely there may be less of them ? And so of the grape . How far can this increase of pulp be carried ? You know that some oranges have no ...
Page 78
... pears , next year some one may have something better than those . That is , in all these plants that we have for beauty and for utility , there is lodged a principle that is exactly in keeping with the nature of that mind which God has ...
... pears , next year some one may have something better than those . That is , in all these plants that we have for beauty and for utility , there is lodged a principle that is exactly in keeping with the nature of that mind which God has ...
Page 217
... pears ; the other , grapes . Now , can I afford to use horse - manure at six dollars a cord for growing grapes or pears ? From my experience , I do not believe that I can ; but I do believe that I can apply twenty - five dollars ' worth ...
... pears ; the other , grapes . Now , can I afford to use horse - manure at six dollars a cord for growing grapes or pears ? From my experience , I do not believe that I can ; but I do believe that I can apply twenty - five dollars ' worth ...
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