Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... Flowering Pla By W , J. GORD With an Introduction by the Rev. GEOR F.L.S. , F.G.8 . LONDON : DAY & SON And SIM Crown 8vo . , with 398 examples in colour , and many URC in S MON 1008189 1 . ANIMALS AND BY HULWIDGEON .
... Flowering Pla By W , J. GORD With an Introduction by the Rev. GEOR F.L.S. , F.G.8 . LONDON : DAY & SON And SIM Crown 8vo . , with 398 examples in colour , and many URC in S MON 1008189 1 . ANIMALS AND BY HULWIDGEON .
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... flower- heads in company with the painted lady , giving most of them their liberty after inspection . My object was first to see what comparison one sex bore to the other in point of number . Without any approach to exaggeration , I ...
... flower- heads in company with the painted lady , giving most of them their liberty after inspection . My object was first to see what comparison one sex bore to the other in point of number . Without any approach to exaggeration , I ...
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... flowers were prevalent , such as trifoliums and ragwort , it chose these for its resting - place , leaving the soil and white and pink flowers severely alone . And again , in meadows where the corn was stacked , and the soil was ...
... flowers were prevalent , such as trifoliums and ragwort , it chose these for its resting - place , leaving the soil and white and pink flowers severely alone . And again , in meadows where the corn was stacked , and the soil was ...
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... FLOWERS . In reply to the query of I. G. in your December issue , as to the better preservation of the colour of ... flower , and so far as I could make out there had been no soil moved to or from the place where it was growing for a ...
... FLOWERS . In reply to the query of I. G. in your December issue , as to the better preservation of the colour of ... flower , and so far as I could make out there had been no soil moved to or from the place where it was growing for a ...
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... flowers had been in water a day or two , instead of drooping and falling , the stems remained erect , but the highly coloured flowers gradually changed in colour to a pale chalk - blue , to much the same tint , in fact , as that of the ...
... flowers had been in water a day or two , instead of drooping and falling , the stems remained erect , but the highly coloured flowers gradually changed in colour to a pale chalk - blue , to much the same tint , in fact , as that of the ...
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