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Página 472 - Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Página 97 - Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves,
Página 287 - Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again. It is in this manner that they will be kept in renovated youth until Ragnarok" (or the destruction of the gods).
Página 219 - Thoroughness of application is to be desired at all times, but is especially important when flea -beetles are numerous or the weather favorable to blight. Using the same quantity of bordeaux, frequent light applications are likely to be more effective than heavier applications made at long intervals...
Página 219 - Very satisfactory results may be obtained from three thorough sprayings. A single spraying is better than none and will usually be profitable, but more are better. Spraying may prove highly profitable even though the blight is only partially prevented. It is unsafe to postpone spraying until blight appears. Except, perhaps, on small areas, it does not pay to apply poison alone for bugs.
Página 219 - In general, commence spraying when the plants are six to eight inches high1 and repeat the treatment at intervals of 10 to 14 days in order to keep the plants well covered with bordeaux throughout the season. During epidemics of blight it may be advisable to spray as often as once a week.2 Usually, six applications will be required.
Página 102 - THE best things are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Página 109 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 440 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Página 266 - The forests of the private owners will have to be set in order if the overwhelming calamity of a timber famine is to be kept from this nation.