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Passatges populars
Pàgina 14 - Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, an' a
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Pàgina 11 - Plant the most mature and perfect seeds of the most hardy, vigorous, and valuable varieties; and, as a shorter process, insuring more certain and happy results, cross or hybridize your best fruits.
Pàgina 23 - ... establish there a course of instruction in practical agriculture, in useful and ornamental gardening, in botany, and in such other branches of natural science as may tend to promote a knowledge of practical agriculture and the various arts subservient thereto and connected therewith, and cause such courses of lectures to be delivered there at such seasons of the year and under such regulations as they may think best adapted to promote the ends designed ; and also to furnish gratuitous aid, if...
Pàgina 2 - All the spring-time the earth sendeth forth naturally very good sallet herbs. Here are grapes, white and red, and very sweet and strong also; strawberries, gooseberries, raspas, &c.; plums of three sorts, white, black, and red, being almost as good as a damson; abundance of roses, white, red, and damask; single, but very sweet indeed.
Pàgina 11 - ... the Society and the country — a system pure and plain in its diction, pertinent and proper in its application, and which shall be an example, not only for fruits, but for other products of the earth, and save our Society and the nation from the disgrace of unmeaning, pretentious and nonsensical names, to the most perfect, useful and beautiful productions of the soil the world has ever known.
Pàgina 5 - Our apples are, without Doubt, as good as those of England, and much fairer to look to, and so are the Pears, but we have not got all the Sorts.
Pàgina 56 - Waltham House bear witness to a refined and elegant taste in rural improvement. A fine level park, a mile in length, enriched with groups of English limes, elms, and oaks, and rich masses of native wood, watered by a fine stream and stocked with deer, were the leading features of the place at that time ; and this, and Woodlands, were the two best specimens of the modern style, as Judge Peters...
Pàgina 14 - ... that glorious day which is to bind together the nations of the earth in one great family of love and good will, making them one in a common interest — one in fraternal regard and one in efforts for the welfare of mankind. To doubt this would be to doubt the word of Him who hath promised that the day shall come " when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and nations learn war no more.