The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, 24. köideThomas Meehan Charles H. Marot, 1882 |
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Page 86 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of. the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 31 - Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown of light, But thieves from o'er the wall Stole the seed by night. Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower, Till all the people cried 'Splendid is the flower.
Page 345 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 223 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 16 - If any person shall steal, or shall destroy or damage with intent to steal, any plant, root, fruit, or vegetable production. growing in any garden, orchard, nursery-ground, hothouse, greenhouse, or conservatory...
Page 16 - Peace, shall, at the Discretion of the Justice, either be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding One Calendar Month, or else shall forfeit and pay, over and above the Amount of the Injury done, such Sum of Money, not exceeding Twenty Shillings, as to the Justice shall seem meet...
Page 16 - ... at the discretion of the justice, either be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding six calendar months, or else shall forfeit and pay over and above the value of the article or articles so stolen, or the amount of the injury done, such sum of money, not exceeding twenty pounds, as to the justice shall seem meet...
Page 31 - Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. And some are pretty enough, And some are poor indeed j And now again the people Call it but a weed.
Page 315 - Here are also peaches very good, and in great quantities, not an Indian plantation without them, — but whether naturally here at first I know not. However, one may have them by bushels for little. They make a pleasant drink, and I think not inferior to any peach you have in England, except the true Newington.
Page 4 - Spiraea crispifolia, we may almost defy, with a little skill, the power of time to compass, by means of trees, the destruction of our grass plots. I must add, however, one other conifer to this seemingly short, but really varied, list of new hardy plants suited to miniature lawn planting. I refer to Sciadopitys verticillata, the parasol pine, one of the most extraordinary evergreens known. The plant we see on this lawn is scarcely two feet high, and yet it is more than ten years old.