Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page v
... flowers . Here graceful palms , here luscious fruits have birth ; The fragrant coffee , life - sustaining rice , Sweet canes , and wondrous gums , and odorous spice ; While Flora's choicest treasures crowd the teeming earth . Beside ...
... flowers . Here graceful palms , here luscious fruits have birth ; The fragrant coffee , life - sustaining rice , Sweet canes , and wondrous gums , and odorous spice ; While Flora's choicest treasures crowd the teeming earth . Beside ...
Page vi
... flower , And Summer when the sun's creative power Brings leafy groves and glades of feathery fern , The glorious ... flowers ! Thou givest birth To shifting scenes of beauty , which outshine Th ' unvarying splendours of the Tropic's ...
... flower , And Summer when the sun's creative power Brings leafy groves and glades of feathery fern , The glorious ... flowers ! Thou givest birth To shifting scenes of beauty , which outshine Th ' unvarying splendours of the Tropic's ...
Page xi
... Flowers - Concluding Remarks on Tropical Vegetation . pages 27-68 . III . ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS . Difficulties of the Subject - General Aspect of the Animal Life of Equatorial Forests - Diurnal Lepidoptera or Butterflies ...
... Flowers - Concluding Remarks on Tropical Vegetation . pages 27-68 . III . ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS . Difficulties of the Subject - General Aspect of the Animal Life of Equatorial Forests - Diurnal Lepidoptera or Butterflies ...
Page xii
... Flowers - Attractive Odours in Flowers — Attractive Grouping in Flowers - Why Alpine Flowers are so Beautiful - Why Allied Species of Flowers differ in Size and Beauty- Absence of Colours in Wind - fertilized Flowers - The same Theory ...
... Flowers - Attractive Odours in Flowers — Attractive Grouping in Flowers - Why Alpine Flowers are so Beautiful - Why Allied Species of Flowers differ in Size and Beauty- Absence of Colours in Wind - fertilized Flowers - The same Theory ...
Page 18
... flowers and fruits , although more abundant at certain seasons , are never altogether absent ; while many annual food - plants as well as some fruit - trees produce two crops a year . In other cases , more than one complete year is ...
... flowers and fruits , although more abundant at certain seasons , are never altogether absent ; while many annual food - plants as well as some fruit - trees produce two crops a year . In other cases , more than one complete year is ...
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