Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters and Live Fences: A Treatise on the Planting, Growth and Management of Hedge Plants for Country and Suburban HomesOrange Judd, 1908 - 139 páginas |
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... never could serve the farmer as it could serve the manufacturer . It built great factories , and around factories grew our great towns . Steam took our best brains and our best hands away from the farm . It took our most interesting ...
... never could serve the farmer as it could serve the manufacturer . It built great factories , and around factories grew our great towns . Steam took our best brains and our best hands away from the farm . It took our most interesting ...
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... never known it to be attacked by any other insect than the hop louse . This aphis , after several generations on plum trees and buckthorn hedges , migrates to the hop field . The damage done to the buckthorn is not serious , but is ...
... never known it to be attacked by any other insect than the hop louse . This aphis , after several generations on plum trees and buckthorn hedges , migrates to the hop field . The damage done to the buckthorn is not serious , but is ...
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... never be made regular , which is often an advantage . Fences of seedling apples have been occasionally tried , and have proved to be more or less useful in turning animals . Their chief value , however , is as windbreaks . Such hedges ...
... never be made regular , which is often an advantage . Fences of seedling apples have been occasionally tried , and have proved to be more or less useful in turning animals . Their chief value , however , is as windbreaks . Such hedges ...
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... never twice try to get over or through it . It would not be possible to mutilate the hedge or cut a passage in a hurry . The thorn genus has been very generally used in America . Before the introduction of the maclura the different ...
... never twice try to get over or through it . It would not be possible to mutilate the hedge or cut a passage in a hurry . The thorn genus has been very generally used in America . Before the introduction of the maclura the different ...
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... never be reduced to order and beauty . It is as much as a man's life is worth to undertake such a task . I go so far as to refuse to allow even a tree of this brutal thorn to grow on my land . There is , however , a thornless variety of ...
... never be reduced to order and beauty . It is as much as a man's life is worth to undertake such a task . I go so far as to refuse to allow even a tree of this brutal thorn to grow on my land . There is , however , a thornless variety of ...
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admirable animals anthracite coal apple arbor barberry Barn basswood berries birds Black Hill spruce blossoming break buckthorn bush central New York chapter coal ashes color compact crop cut back deciduous hedge desirable dwarf entirely hardy evergreen hedge farm farmer feet high flowers foliage fruit garden give gleditschia grapes green GROUND PLAN grow growth hedge plants hedges and windbreaks hemlock hedges honey locust honeysuckle horticulture inches insects keep land landscape lawn leaves live fences mountain ash mulch nature neglected never Norway spruce Orchard ornamental hedge Osage orange pine pine grosbeaks Pinus Massoniana PLAN OF COUNTRY pruning Retinosporas roots season seed shears shelter shrubbery shrubs soil sort spruce street hedges SUBURBAN HOME summer things Thomas Hogg thorn three feet tiful trees trimming twenty varieties vines wall wild wild cherry willow wind winter wire wood
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Página 123 - 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.
Página 91 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 121 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Página 122 - Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running. If the sequestered coolness of the wood tempt us to saunter into its checkered shade, we are saluted by the murmurous din of insects, the twitter of birds, the scrambling of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen beasts, all telling how populous is this seeming solitude. If we pause before a tree, or shrub, or plant, our cursory and half-abstracted glance detects a colony of various inhabitants.