An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening ; Including All the Latest Improvements ; a General History of Gardening in All Countries ; and a Statistical View of Its Present State ; with Suggestions for Its Future Progress in the British Isles, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835 - 1270 pages |
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... carbonic acid , is successfully cultivated . In the Crimea , especially at Soudak , grapes are grown with very large berries , often not less than plums ; but they do not yield well in the press . The vines of Spain and Languedoc are ...
... carbonic acid , is successfully cultivated . In the Crimea , especially at Soudak , grapes are grown with very large berries , often not less than plums ; but they do not yield well in the press . The vines of Spain and Languedoc are ...
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... carbonic acid expelled , and the vital action of the embryo commences . It elongates downwards by the radicle , and upwards by the cotyledons ; the former penetrating the soil , the latter elevating themselves above it , acquiring a ...
... carbonic acid expelled , and the vital action of the embryo commences . It elongates downwards by the radicle , and upwards by the cotyledons ; the former penetrating the soil , the latter elevating themselves above it , acquiring a ...
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... carbonic acid . " That some plants have the power of secreting one kind of accessory principle , and others another kind from the same food , is clear from the fact , that , if wheat and peas be sown in the same water , earth , or other ...
... carbonic acid . " That some plants have the power of secreting one kind of accessory principle , and others another kind from the same food , is clear from the fact , that , if wheat and peas be sown in the same water , earth , or other ...
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... carbonic acid . 1701. The fruit , next to the wood , is the most important part of a plant ; not only on account of its use to man and other animals , but on account of its seeds for the continu- ation of the species . " The fruit ...
... carbonic acid . 1701. The fruit , next to the wood , is the most important part of a plant ; not only on account of its use to man and other animals , but on account of its seeds for the continu- ation of the species . " The fruit ...
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... carbonic acid gas , and can live and thrive with little or no light . In green plants , which require the action of light , the intensity required is very different in different species : some require shady places , and hence the ...
... carbonic acid gas , and can live and thrive with little or no light . In green plants , which require the action of light , the intensity required is very different in different species : some require shady places , and hence the ...
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Page 373 - Badakhshan and Bokhara. It is on an elevated site, enjoys running water, and the climate in the winter season is temperate. In the garden there is a small hillock, from which a stream of water, sufficient to drive a mill, incessantly flows into the garden below. The four-fold field-plot of this garden is situated on this eminence.
Page 372 - ... by a secret passage. At his court, likewise, this chief entertained a number of youths, from the age of twelve to twenty years, selected from the inhabitants of the surrounding mountains, who showed a disposition for martial exercises, and appeared to possess the quality of daring courage. To them he was in the daily practice of discoursing on the subject of the Paradise announced by the prophet, and of his own power of granting...
Page 493 - On the other hand; a difference in temperature, of some magnitude, was always observed on still and serene nights, between bodies sheltered from the sky by substances touching them, and similar bodies, which were sheltered by a substance a little above them. I found, for example, upon one night, that the warmth of grass, sheltered by a cambric handkerchief raised a few inches in the air, was 3°...
Page 505 - I suppose some great heat and rarefaction of the air in or about the Gulf of Mexico ; the air thence rising has its place supplied by the next more northern, cooler, and therefore denser and heavier, air ; that, being in motion, is followed by the next more northern air, &c. &,c., in a successive current, to which current our coast and inland ridge of mountains give the direction of northeast, as they lie northeast and southwest.