Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1929 (Classic Reprint)
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1929 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-07

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780428056414

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Excerpt from Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1929 Whereas, a number of persons have associated for the purpose of promoting and encouraging horticulture, by improving the growth of vegetables, plants, trees, fruits and flowers, and of introducing into our country new varieties and species, and the said persons are desirous of becoming incorporated; therefore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

1930 Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
1930 Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Author: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780483075115

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Excerpt from 1930 Year Book of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: With Reports for 1929 A History covering its first hundred years has just been published by the Society and is now ready for distribution. The text was prepared and edited with painstaking care by James Boyd, late President, to whom the volume will stand as a lasting memorial. The material, compiled from the minutes of the Society and from contemporaneous prints, is arranged chronologically, and tells an interesting story of the development of the Society - starting with its organization in November, 1827, describing its alternating ups and downs during the next hundred years, and ending with the celebration of its centennial anniversary in November, 1927. In addition, there is much valuable in formation about horticulture in general and the introduction of new plants from time to time during the last century. The book is a cloth-bound volume of over 500 pages, profusely illustrated, and may be obtained upon application to the Secretary of the Society, accompanied by check for $5 (postage prepaid). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

For Shade and for Comfort
For Shade and for Comfort

Author: Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781557532862

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Between 1850 and 1880, Americans of all ranks and circumstances planted shade trees, cultivated flower gardens, and established lawns with a new found enthusiasm that both astonished and delighted horticultural advocates. For Shade and For Comfort explores this unprecedented burst of horticultural interest and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. Drawing upon a wide range of largely unexplored resources - including lithographic images of farm, village, and city homes; agricultural society records; nursery and seed catalogues; and the diaries and letters of local residents - this innovative study examines how advocates encouraged ornamental plant interest and then considers the significance of trees and flowers for their mid-nineteenth-century promoters and for the people who planted and nurtured them. From these diverse perspectives, ornamental plants emerge as densely layered cultural symbols offering not only a very real touch of shade or beauty, but for many, a sense of security and comfort amidst a rapidly changing American society. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use, its examination of nineteenth century horticultural advice literature and the nursery and seed trades, and its insightful analysis of the meanings attached to shade trees and flower gardens, For Shade and For Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians, historians of the Midwest, historic preservationists, and those who simply love horticulture and gardening.

Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

Bad Blood
Bad Blood

Author: James H. Jones

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0029166764

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The modern classic of race and medicine updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee experiment's legacy in the age of AIDS.

Battlefield and Classroom
Battlefield and Classroom

Author: Richard Henry Pratt

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2023-02-10

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0806192801

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General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt’s long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. During that time he participated in some of the signal conflicts with Indians of the southern plains, including the Washita campaign of 1868-1869 and the Red River War of 1874-1875. He then served as jailor for many of the Indians who surrendered. His experiences led him to dedicate himself to Indian education, and from 1879 to 1904, still on active military duty, he directed the Carlisle school, believing that the only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth to nonreservation settings and there inculcate in them what he considered civilized ways. Pratt’s memoirs, edited by Robert M. Utley and with a new foreword by David Wallace Adams, offer insight into and understanding of what are now highly controversial turn-of-the-century Indian education policies.

Hex
Hex

Author: Arthur H. Lewis

Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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In November 1928, in a sparsely settled area of York County, Pennsylvania, Nelson Rehmeyer, a self-proclaimed witch, was bludgeoned to death. Two days later his body was discovered and the murders apprehended. The accused were thirty two-year-old John Blymire, also a practitioner of witchcraft, John Curry, aged fourteen, and Wilbert Hess, aged eighteen. Their confessions revealed their belief in wtichcraft led to the murder. They believed that Rehmeyer had hexed them. When this case went to court it created headlines across the country. This book looks at this case and at how witchcraft is being practiced, even today, through the Pennsylvania Dutch country.