The Garden Magazine, Volume 32Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921 - Gardening |
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Page 29 - Wheat, 4 of Rye, 4 fat Oxen, 3 fat Swine, 12 fat Sheep, 2 hogsheads of Wine, 4 tuns of Beer, 2 tons of Butter, 1000 pounds of Cheese, a complete Bed, a Suit of Clothes, and a Silver Beaker — value of the whole 2500 florins.
Page 29 - In 1634, the rage among the Dutch to possess them was so great that the ordinary industry of the country was neglected, and the population, even to its lowest dregs, embarked in the tulip trade.
Page 24 - ... but God and nature are not in his thoughts, for they do not go beyond the bulb of his tulip, which he would not sell for a thousand crowns, though he will give it to you for nothing when tulips are no longer in fashion and carnations are all the rage. This rational being, who has a soul and professes some religion, comes home tired and half starved, but very pleased with his day's work: he has seen some tulips.
Page 30 - ... where high and low traded in tulips, and confirmed their bargains over sumptuous entertainments. These dinners were sometimes attended by two or three hundred persons, and large vases of tulips, in full bloom, were placed at regular intervals upon the tables and side-boards for their gratification during the repast. At last, however, the more prudent began to see that this folly could not last for ever. Rich people no longer bought the flowers to keep them in their gardens, but to sell them again...
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Page 264 - March 3, 1905 (USC, title 21, sees. 123-128), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the act of June 29, 1906 (USC, title 45, sees.
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Page 327 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
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