The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 7Luthur Tucker, 1852 - Country life |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achimenes acid agricultural amateur appearance apple bearing beautiful Beurre bloom blossom branches buds Calceolarias cherry climate cold color crop cultivation culture early equal evergreens exhibition experience farm farmer feet flavor flowers foliage frost fruit trees Fuchsias give grape green green-house ground grow grower grown growth guaco hardy Hort Horticultural Society Horticulturist inches insects labor leaf leaves light loam malic acid manure matter native nature never New-York nursery orchard ornamental Osage Orange peach pear trees perfect plants plum pomologists potash pots practical produced pruning quince readers remarks rich rieties ripen roots rose sea kale season seed Seedling seen shoots shrubs soil sorts species specimens spring strawberry summer tannic tannic acid thing tion varieties vegetable Victoria Regia vigorous vines whole Winkfield winter wood yellow young
Popular passages
Page 279 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 281 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 414 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 277 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 277 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen : for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Page 278 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 278 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 23 - Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation. But what was our astonishment when we discovered by degrees that not one lamb of the whole flock was wanting ! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising...
Page 207 - Convince a man against his will, he's of the same opinion still ; ' is that it ? Well, I like your spirit.
Page 279 - He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them ; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.