Transactions of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Volumen6

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Página 88 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Página 158 - Secretary be directed to forward a copy of this resolution to each Member of Congress from the 11 Western States, to the President of the United States, and to the Attorney General.
Página 93 - Bring flowers to the shrine where we kneel in prayer, They are nature's offering, their place is there ! They speak of hope to the fainting heart, With a voice of promise they come and part, They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers ! THE CRUSADER'S RETURN. "Alas! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan cheeks and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Página 6 - The by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of...
Página 125 - It then stuffs the upper end of the passage with sawdustlike powder, and the lower part with curly fibres of wood, after which it rests from its labors. It thus finishes its gnawing work during the commencement of the third winter, but remains motionless in the larval state until the following spring, when it casts off its skin once more and becomes a pupa.
Página 116 - The worm when young is whitish, with usually an entirely black head, and a black shield on top of the first segment. When full-grown it acquires a flesh-colored or pinkish tint, especially on the back, and the head and top of first segment become more brown, being usually marked as at Fig.
Página 125 - ... the following spring. On approach of the second winter it is about one-half grown, and still living on the sap-wood; and it is at this time that these borers do the most damage, for where there are four or five in a single tree, they almost completely girdle it. In the course of the next summer when it has become about three-fourths grown, it generally commences to cut a cylindrical passage...
Página 128 - Soon after pairing, the female beetle creeps into the earth, especially wherever the soil is loose and rough, and after depositing her eggs, to the number of iorty or fifty — dies. These hatch in the course of a month, and, the grubs growing slowly, do not attain full size till the early spring of the third year, when they construct an ovoid chamber, lined with a gelatinous fluid ; change into pupae, and soon afterwards into beetles.
Página 124 - The two-striped saperda makes its appearance in the beetle state during the months of May and June, and is seldom seen by any but the entomologist who makes a point of hunting for it, from the fact that...
Página 116 - ... its head and first segment, magnified; i, the cocoon which it spins; d, the chrysalis to which it changes; /, the moth which escapes from the chrysalis, as it appears when at rest; g, the moth with wings expanded.

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