Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society, Volume 20The Society., 1881 - Fruit-culture |
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Page 53 - And it may be remarked that, as the world has passed through these several stages of strife to produce a Christendom ; so, by relaxing in the enterprises it has learnt, does it tend downwards, through inverted steps, to wildness and the waste again. Let a people give up their contest with moral evil ; disregard the injustice, the ignorance, the greediness, that may prevail among them, and part more and more with the Christian element of their civilization ; and, in declining this battle with Sin,...
Page 54 - But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life, which through the night of aeons she had been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when in the fulness of time his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession.
Page 5 - Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and answer all communications addressed to the Society; establish and maintain correspondence with all local, county, district and State horticultural societies, and secure by exchange their transactions, as far as possible, to aid the President, as an executive officer, in the dispatch of business relating to the meetings of the Society...
Page 46 - All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty, — or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade, from mortified pleaders in courts and senates, or from the victims of idleness and pleasure ? Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves : " Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land, to be recruited and cured by that...
Page 5 - The Treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay •out the same only on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President.
Page 46 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Page 45 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 37 - That the carbonic acid and nitrogenous compounds generated in diminutive quantities in the electric arc produce no sensible deleterious effects upon plants enclosed in the same space. 4. That plants do not appear to require a period of rest during the twentyfour hours of the day, but make increased and vigorous progress if subjected during the daytime to sunlight and during the night to electric light.
Page 5 - Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Committee of three. 3. The President shall preside at and conduct all meetings of the Society, and in his absence the Vice Presidents, in their order, shall perform the same duties. 4. The Secretary shall record all the doings of the Society, •collate and prepare all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over all money received from members, or otherwise, to the Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive...
Page 6 - Secretary -Treasurer and Executive Committee may call a meeting of the Society at any time and place they may consider advisable by a notice of thirty days in the public press, or by circulars properly distributed.