The Theory and Practice of Horticulture: Or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Operations of Gardening Upon Physiological GraoundsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 606 páginas |
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... means of improving any art , is to get the best insight we can into the nature and properties of those things which we are desirous to cultivate and improve . " HALES'S Vegetable Staticks , i . 376 . LONDON : LONGMAN , BROWN , GREEN ...
... means of improving any art , is to get the best insight we can into the nature and properties of those things which we are desirous to cultivate and improve . " HALES'S Vegetable Staticks , i . 376 . LONDON : LONGMAN , BROWN , GREEN ...
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... means rendered a complicated subject such as none but practised gardeners can hope to pursue successfully ; and , like all empirical things , it is degraded into a code of peremptory precepts . It will nevertheless be found , if the ...
... means rendered a complicated subject such as none but practised gardeners can hope to pursue successfully ; and , like all empirical things , it is degraded into a code of peremptory precepts . It will nevertheless be found , if the ...
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... means of their vibratile cilia , a rotatory motion , which is sometimes very rapid . " Nothing , " says M. Thuret , " is more curious than the appearance of great brown spores rolling and tumbling about in the midst of a swarm of ...
... means of their vibratile cilia , a rotatory motion , which is sometimes very rapid . " Nothing , " says M. Thuret , " is more curious than the appearance of great brown spores rolling and tumbling about in the midst of a swarm of ...
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... means it possesses of ridding itself of this principle , essential to its preservation , but forming an impediment to its development as a new plant , is by converting the carbon into carbonic acid , for which purpose a supply of oxygen ...
... means it possesses of ridding itself of this principle , essential to its preservation , but forming an impediment to its development as a new plant , is by converting the carbon into carbonic acid , for which purpose a supply of oxygen ...
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... means of which a communication is maintained between the more remote parts of the embryo . Heat seems to set the vital principle in action , to expand the air contained in the numerous microscopic cavities of the seed , and to produce a ...
... means of which a communication is maintained between the more remote parts of the embryo . Heat seems to set the vital principle in action , to expand the air contained in the numerous microscopic cavities of the seed , and to produce a ...
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