The Minnesota Horticulturist: Annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Svazek 23

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Bruce Publishing Company, 1895
 

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Strana 371 - They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed— and gazed— but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought...
Strana 371 - ... wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Strana 371 - I gazed, and gazed, but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Strana 6 - This society shall be known as the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. ARTICLE II. Its object shall be the advancement of the art and science of horticulture throughout the state.
Strana 404 - Give fools their gold, and knaves their power ; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest ; And God and man shall own his worth Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth.
Strana 404 - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy. There is a serene and settled majesty in woodland scenery that enters into the soul, and dilates and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Strana 412 - ... the death-rate of our cities and towns. Thus, while stables and other filthy places are tolerated by city and town authorities, the young of the house-flies, and of flesh- and blow-flies, with their thousand allies, are doing something toward purifying the pestilential air, averting the summer brood of cholera, dysentery, diphtheria, typhus and typhoid fever, which descend like harpies upon the devoted towns and cities. It may be regarded as an axiom that where flies most abound there filth,...
Strana 84 - This Constitution may be altered or amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting, notice of such alteration having been given in writing at least two weeks prior to said meeting, or at a previous session.
Strana 328 - Summer or winter, day or night, The woods are ever a new delight; They give us health, and they make us strong, Such wonderful balm to them belong.
Strana 84 - The President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee.

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