The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... produce it . By Analysis , from two greek words , ava and Avis , ( a dissolution of , or bringing any substance or thing back to its first principles , ) chemists express those processes which separate and repeal the parts or components ...
... produce it . By Analysis , from two greek words , ava and Avis , ( a dissolution of , or bringing any substance or thing back to its first principles , ) chemists express those processes which separate and repeal the parts or components ...
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... produced from two invisible , aëriform fluids , unless it previously exist therein . I shall not here anticipate what I must refer to at large in a future paper . I shall only observe that , in order to produce light , heat , and water ...
... produced from two invisible , aëriform fluids , unless it previously exist therein . I shall not here anticipate what I must refer to at large in a future paper . I shall only observe that , in order to produce light , heat , and water ...
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... produced by the re - union and deflagration of the two actual products of the previous decomposition , and that , to ... producing combustion , the light of which , shall vie with that of the sun ; while the heat shall surpass in ...
... produced by the re - union and deflagration of the two actual products of the previous decomposition , and that , to ... producing combustion , the light of which , shall vie with that of the sun ; while the heat shall surpass in ...
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... produce the food of plants , all the great natural agents are of necessity employed , and water is the medium through which they act . It may indeed be itself decomposed , and by its elements produce new compounds with the decomposable ...
... produce the food of plants , all the great natural agents are of necessity employed , and water is the medium through which they act . It may indeed be itself decomposed , and by its elements produce new compounds with the decomposable ...
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... produces fruit , which is of great importance ; as to those sorts which are longer coming into bearing , their vital energies are exhausted before they can produce fruit , owing to the dry ungenial heat in which they grow , and those ...
... produces fruit , which is of great importance ; as to those sorts which are longer coming into bearing , their vital energies are exhausted before they can produce fruit , owing to the dry ungenial heat in which they grow , and those ...
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Page 130 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 360 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 51 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 50 - I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.
Page 51 - Then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell. Then the flower of the vines : it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth.
Page 95 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Page 50 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 50 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 157 - And foorth they passe with pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 184 - But what are the spots? Many fanciful notions have been broached on this subject, but only one seems to have any degree of physical probability, viz. that they are the dark, or at least comparatively dark, solid body of the sun itself, laid bare to our view by those immense fluctuations in the luminous regions of its atmosphere, to which it appears to be subject.