Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... seeds from the Cyclades Islands , and the scurvy - grass came up spontaneously ; while manure from different fields of battle proved extremely favour- able to the hæmanthus or blood - flower , the trumpet- flower and laurel , as well as ...
... seeds from the Cyclades Islands , and the scurvy - grass came up spontaneously ; while manure from different fields of battle proved extremely favour- able to the hæmanthus or blood - flower , the trumpet- flower and laurel , as well as ...
Page 129
... seed . " The various modes by which seeds are dispersed , cannot fail to strike an observing mind with admiration . Who has not listened in a calm and sunny day to the crackling of furze bushes , caused by the explosion of their little ...
... seed . " The various modes by which seeds are dispersed , cannot fail to strike an observing mind with admiration . Who has not listened in a calm and sunny day to the crackling of furze bushes , caused by the explosion of their little ...
Page 130
... seeds again disperse themselves by means of an elastic seed - vessel , as Oats and Gera- nium ; and the seeds of aquatic plants , and those which grow on the banks of rivers , are carried many miles by the currents into which they fall ...
... seeds again disperse themselves by means of an elastic seed - vessel , as Oats and Gera- nium ; and the seeds of aquatic plants , and those which grow on the banks of rivers , are carried many miles by the currents into which they fall ...
Page 131
... seeds of plants than in the spawn of fish ; as almost any one plant , if all its seeds should grow to maturity , would in a few years alone people the ter- restrial globe . The seeds of one Sunflower amount to 4000 ; Poppy has 32,000 ...
... seeds of plants than in the spawn of fish ; as almost any one plant , if all its seeds should grow to maturity , would in a few years alone people the ter- restrial globe . The seeds of one Sunflower amount to 4000 ; Poppy has 32,000 ...
Page 132
... seeds planted in the exhausted re- ceiver of an air - pump will not vegetate . The earth thrown up from the deepest wells , although all possible access of fresh seeds be carefully excluded , will , upon exposure to the air , shoot ...
... seeds planted in the exhausted re- ceiver of an air - pump will not vegetate . The earth thrown up from the deepest wells , although all possible access of fresh seeds be carefully excluded , will , upon exposure to the air , shoot ...
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