This building is occupied by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a technical museum, &c.
A large number of horticultural varieties have been developed by hybridization, some of which have a variegated foliage.
At Cologne they made him the president of all the local horticultural societies.
In addition to being a horticultural people they became herders, and the pueblo was prosperous.
These very old manufacturers of indented ceramics were also a horticultural people, for they raised Indian corn.
I think that we should try to reach the gardeners and the agricultural and horticultural societies of the country in our campaign for the furtherance of nut culture.
Two public horticultural institutions in Canada have written me about making nut plantings.
Enthusiasts in every community should see to it that the subject is properly represented at the local meetings of horticultural associations and other organizations which discuss rural problems.
To stimulate interest in horticultural institutions, especially in nut breeding.
A few manifest a little interest in planting horticultural varieties but the only breeding experiments that I know of, or at this moment recall, are those of Dr.
The individuals who care for those trees and shrubs, while moving up and down the highway caring for them, will be carrying with them a little university of horticultural knowledge.
Therefore I think that more of the energy of this association should be expended in influencing the self perpetuating horticultural institutions to see the importance of nut culture.
And such a race would be a distinct gain for sundry physiologic inquiries, and perhaps not wholly destitute of value from an horticultural point of view.
I have already mentioned that the rapid production of large numbers of new varieties, by [626] means of the crossing of the offspring of a single mutant with previously existing sorts, is a very common feature in horticultural practice.
It is reduced to a latent state, exactly as are the apparently lost characters of so many ordinaryhorticultural varieties.
It is from their writings and from horticultural literature at large that the following evidence is brought together.
This impurity we have called vicinism, and in a previous lecture have shown its effects upon the horticultural races on one hand, and on the other, on the scientific value that can be ascribed to the experience of the breeder.
It lays great stress on the old prescript of isolation and pure fertilization, but it will have to be worked out and applied to a large number of practical cases before it will gain a preeminent influence in horticultural practice.
In a former lecture we have seen that contrary to the general run of horticultural belief, varieties are as constant as the best species, if kept free from hybrid admixtures.
Hence it is very probable that my novelty was a true first mutation, the more probably [629] so since a pink variety would without doubt have a certain horticultural value and would have been preserved if it had occurred.
They seem to be more common among cultivated plants and horticultural as well as agricultural species may be used.
Besides the direct comparison of the mutations described in our former lectures, with the analogous cases of the horticultural and natural production of species and varieties at large, another way is open to obtain the required proof.
It is quite superfluous to go into details, as we have dealt with thehorticultural [707] mutations at sufficient length on a previous occasion.
In ordinary horticultural practice it is desirable to give some guarantee as to what may be expected to come from the seeds of brightly striped flowers.
Among all the previously described cases of horticultural plants and monstrosities there is no clearer case of an ever-sporting variety than this one of the water-persicaria.
From the purely horticultural standpoint these hybrids between chinquapins and chestnut species must be considered as most striking successes.
Why should not their planting receive more attention and encouragement from our horticultural and other rural societies?
Come, come, this talk is getting too horticultural and beautiful altogether.
Several cases of the first appearance of a horticultural novelty have been recorded: this has always happened in the same way; it appeared suddenly and unexpectedly without any definite relation to previously existing variability.
So it is in other cases described by Korschinsky: these sports or mutations are now recognised to be the main source of varieties of horticultural plants.
But the saltatory origin of horticultural novelties is as yet the simplest parallel for natural mutations, since it relates to forms and phenomena, best known to the general student of evolution.
It is in this way that horticultural and agricultural experience contribute to the problem of the conversion of varieties into species, and to the explanation of the admirable adaptations of each organism to its complex conditions of life.
Korschinsky has collected all the evidence which horticultural literature affords on this point.
It is well known that they have produced a large number of fine horticultural varieties.
As already stated, I do not pretend that the production of horticultural novelties is the prototype of the origin of new species in nature.
In these days of horticultural prosperity and rapid progress, when there would appear to be one or more specialists devoting themselves to every worthy flower, we need scarcely say that the Rose has not been forgotten.
The biggest crowd we see in the Horticultural Hall wuz round what you may call the humblest thing--a tree, something like old Bobbetses calf, with five legs.
They make a present of the temple and all of these horticultural works to Chicago.
After we left the Horticultural Buildin' I proposed that we should branch out for once and git a fashionable dinner.
So we sot out the first thing for the Horticultural Buildin', and good land!
From his experience in glass-houses forhorticultural purposes, Mr. Paxton speaks confidently on this point.
We do not go out of our province as horticultural journalists in noticing a work recently issued by Mr. Gilbert, of Paternoster-row.
The central court-yard is open to the sky; in the middle rises an elegant fountain placed on a platform of turf, and around are disposed sheds for the exhibition of flowers and horticultural ornaments and implements.
One point cannot be too often urged in respect to horticultural pursuits.
Thoroughness is at the bottom of allhorticultural success.
Our climate is quite as favorable to their production as that of England; and, when the floricultural art has reached among us the same development, our horticultural shows will, no doubt, boast decorations equally splendid.
I tried once more to make this Babe in the Horticultural Gardens take his five thousand.
The maze planned by the desire of the Prince Consort for the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at South Kensington was allowed to go to ruin, and was then destroyed--no great loss, for it was a feeble thing.
High-priced horticultural experts had been consulted as to the best means of thickening the vegetation and screening the approaches to the house.
The Vice-President remarked: "We all know what it means when Mr. Keith becomeshorticultural in his similes.
On some horticultural pretext one of them drew near and craftily engaged his thoughts and conversation.
Meanwhile, the International Horticultural Society of Brussels had secured a quantity, but they regarded it as new, and gave it the name of Catt.
The quickest record as yet is Calanthe Alexanderii, with which Mr. Cookson won a first-class certificate of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Cattleya Dowiana was rediscovered by Mr. Arce, when collecting birds: it must have been a grand moment for Warscewicz when the horticultural world was convulsed by its appearance in bloom.
To the Royal Horticultural Society of England belongs the honour of first importing orchids methodically and scientifically.
And now the horticultural papers inform us that the lost orchid is found, by Mr. Sander of St. Albans.
To theHorticultural Society we are indebted, not alone for the discovery of this wonder, but also for its introduction.
In accordance with the advice then given, he devoted much attention to hunting, fishing, and to horticultural and agricultural pursuits.
Here he soon after erected a tasteful dwelling, where he has since resided, and where in the leisure snatched from professional avocations he has gratified his taste for horticultural and agricultural pursuits.
As soon as our neighbors realized what horticultural possibilities our noble expanse of front yard offered they fairly overwhelmed us with floral and arboreal gifts.
Orchid Grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, President of the Royal Horticultural Society.
I have also derived valuable aid from the volumes of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Before closing this chapter I may mention that there is a considerable plantation of gutta-percha trees in the horticultural garden at Buitenzorg.
The horticultural garden adjoins the botanical gardens, and occupies forty acres.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horticultural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
