The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... quantity of distilled water . Into the tube , twenty - eight grains of charcoal , broken into smallish pieces , and which had pre- viously been exposed for a long time to a red heat in a close vessel , were introduced . To the inferior ...
... quantity of distilled water . Into the tube , twenty - eight grains of charcoal , broken into smallish pieces , and which had pre- viously been exposed for a long time to a red heat in a close vessel , were introduced . To the inferior ...
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... quantities and calculation ; of these facts there is no question or doubt whatsoever . Second . As analysis and synthesis tend to establish the nature of water , the proofs deduced from the experiment are irrefragable and decisive the ...
... quantities and calculation ; of these facts there is no question or doubt whatsoever . Second . As analysis and synthesis tend to establish the nature of water , the proofs deduced from the experiment are irrefragable and decisive the ...
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... quantity ; and as it is cer- tain that not a particle of solid carbon , however impalpable it may be , can enter the absorbent processes of the roots ; it can scarcely be supposed that the carbon of the plant is derived from in ...
... quantity ; and as it is cer- tain that not a particle of solid carbon , however impalpable it may be , can enter the absorbent processes of the roots ; it can scarcely be supposed that the carbon of the plant is derived from in ...
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... quantities of decayed leaves , bog , & c . , but it was to no purpose , without removing the site altogether . The best me- thod I have practiced for sometime is to burn all the weeds and refuse I can get together . I never pay any ...
... quantities of decayed leaves , bog , & c . , but it was to no purpose , without removing the site altogether . The best me- thod I have practiced for sometime is to burn all the weeds and refuse I can get together . I never pay any ...
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... quantity into your frame , and make up the hills about eight inches from the glass , putting a good lining of fresh horse - dung to your frame , and then the heat will soon be up to receive the plants . After the plants are ridged out ...
... quantity into your frame , and make up the hills about eight inches from the glass , putting a good lining of fresh horse - dung to your frame , and then the heat will soon be up to receive the plants . After the plants are ridged out ...
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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...
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