Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volume 6

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Charles Mason Hovey
Hovey and Company, 1840
 

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Página 63 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 63 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks...
Página 27 - Or, Essays on the Principles and Practice of American Husbandry. With the Address prepared to be delivered before the Agricultural and Horticultural Societies of New Haven County, Connecticut. And an Appendix, containing Tables, and other Matter useful to the Farmer.
Página 266 - The Young Gardener's Assistant, in three parts: containing catalogues of garden and flower seeds, with practical directions under each head for the cultivation of culinary vegetables and flowers; also, directions for cultivating fruit trees, the grape vine...
Página 359 - Malony's wharf, and secreted herself, and was finally rescued. James Sturdy, a boy about eleven years of age, hid himself in the cistern under Mr. Houseman's house, and was scalded to death by the burning building heating the water. The remains of an adult skeleton were found among the ruins of Dr. Perrine's house, supposed to be the doctor, as well as that of a child, thought to have been a slave of Mr. Houseman.
Página 359 - John, save me!" she was killed. Mr. Motte shared the same fate, and was scalped ; and the old lady, as she was dragged forth, suddenly jerking from the Indian, broke his hold, and escaped under a house.
Página 382 - ... different species, upon which incorrect ideas at present very generally prevail ; several material corrections were also suggested as to the general opinions respecting the influence of heat, desiccation, and time, upon their acridity ; and a short allusion was made to the properties of a remarkably crystalline principle which the author discovered in one of the species of Ranunculus, and which appeared to him to be the ingredient upon which the activity of that genus depends. " The author next...
Página 275 - ... Ponceau. Traduit de 1'Anglois par M. d'Homergue. Paris, 1837— From the Author. Atlas Classica. By HS Tanner. Nos. 4 to 7. Philadelphia, 1838. From the Author. Boston Journal of Natural History. Published by the Boston Society of Natural History— Vol. II. No. 1. Boston, 1838 — From the Society. The Committee appointed at the last meeting to consider the expediency of publishing from time to time, a brief abstract of the proceedings of the Society, reported in favour of its expediency, and...
Página 102 - A shrubby plant, half-hardy, prostrate, and producing long slender shoots, which have an elegant appearance if allowed to hang down from the rafters of a green-house.
Página 29 - Such an objection is unworthy of the age, which should, if it does not, huve regard to tho interests of the human family, and of posterity, — and is, besides, affecting to hold a shorter tenure of life than all of us hope for, and most of us expect. Twenty years ago, at forty years of age, we commenced the cultivation of what was termed a barren, untameable common, not an acre of which had been cultivated, and on which a tree or shrub had never been planted by the hand of man. We have now growing...

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