Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, Volumes 13-14Missouri Botanical Garden, 1925 The January number of each volume contains the annual reports of the officers of the board and the director, 1913-1977; the annual reports are issued as the May issues of each volume, -1987. |
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1-2 feet high American Annual April April-May B. M. Duggar bloom books and pamphlets branches Chiriqui Prov common creeping bent Daffodils east of city Edgar Anderson EDWARD MALLINCKRODT England EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Flower Show flowers white flowers yellow Found in dry Found in rich fruit G. H. Pring Garden Bulletin Gatun Lake George grass green growing herbarium hills east hills near city inches high iris irises jonquils lawn leaves locust Louis mandrake Missouri Botanical Garden Moore Narcissus number of books number of plants number of visitors orchids P. M. until sunset pamphlets donated Panama Perennial 1-2 feet perianth pink poinsettia poisonous Powellii Schltr pseudobulbs purple racemes Rchb received as gifts rhizome river root Sargassum Schltr School for Gardening Scythian lamb seed packets received SHAW'S shrubs smooth soil species specimens spring stem tion Total number Tower Grove Park tree varieties Washington University wild William Cobbett
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Page 11 - Other objects worthy of notice will be — The soil and face of the country, its growth and vegetable productions, especially those not of the United States; The animals of the country generally, and especially those not known in the United States; The remains and accounts of any which may be deemed rare or extinct...
Page 6 - It is a science of the very first order. It counts among its handmaids the most respectable sciences, such as Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Mechanics, Mathematics generally, Natural History, Botany. In every College and University, a professorship of agriculture, and the class of its students, might be honored as the first.
Page 11 - Volcanic appearances. climate as characterized by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds prevailing at different seasons, the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flowers, or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, reptiles or insects. Altho...
Page 125 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureat hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 10 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce.
Page 150 - The time will come," he observes, " and it will not be very distant, when the locust tree will be more common in England than the oak ; when a man would be thought mad if he used anything but locust in the making of sills, posts, gates, joists, feet for rick-stands, stocks and axletrees for wheels, hop-poles, pales, or for any tiling where there is liability to rot.
Page 143 - Oh, the coxcomb ! As if an absolute pedagogue like him could injure me by his criticisms ! And, as if an error like this, even if it had been one, could have any thing to do with my capacity for developing principles, and for simplifying things, which, in their nature, are of great complexity ! — The oaks, which, in England, have now their sap in full flow, are here quite unmoved as yet. In the gardens in general there is nothing green, while, in England, they have broccoli to eat, early cabbages...
Page 111 - Home, and there find my wife making of tea; a drink which Mr. Felling, the Potticary, tells her is good for her cold and defluxions.
Page 52 - The graine is about the bignesse of our ordinary English peaze and not much different in forme and shape: but of divers colours: some white, some red, some yellow, and some blew.
Page 142 - ... slovenliness about the homesteads, and particularly about the dwellings of labourers. Mr. BIRKBECK complains of this ; and, indeed, what a contrast with the homesteads and cottages, which he left behind him near that exemplary spot, Guildford in Surrey ! Both blots are, however, easily accounted for. . 17. The fences are of post and rail. This arose, in the first place, from the abundance of timber that men knew not how to dispose of. It is now become an affair of great expense in the populous...