Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page v
... 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 each cot the golden Orange stands , And broad ...
... 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 each cot the golden Orange stands , And broad ...
Page xii
... Fruits - Protective Colours of Fruits- Seeds how Protected - Attractive Colours of Flowers - Attractive Odours in Flowers - Attractive Grouping in Flowers - Why Alpine Flowers are so Beautiful - Why Allied Species of Flowers differ in ...
... Fruits - Protective Colours of Fruits- Seeds how Protected - Attractive Colours of Flowers - Attractive Odours in Flowers - Attractive Grouping in Flowers - Why Alpine Flowers are so Beautiful - Why Allied Species of Flowers differ in ...
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... fruits , so that it is not uncommon for fruit to be ripe at the same time that the tree is covered with flowers , in preparation for the succeeding crop . This is the case with the Brazil nut tree , in the forests of the Amazon , and ...
... fruits , so that it is not uncommon for fruit to be ripe at the same time that the tree is covered with flowers , in preparation for the succeeding crop . This is the case with the Brazil nut tree , in the forests of the Amazon , and ...
Page 34
... fruits . More frequently it is covered with a dense carpet of selaginella or other lycopodiacea , and these sometimes give place to a variety of herbaceous plants , sometimes with pretty , but rarely with very conspicuous flowers ...
... fruits . More frequently it is covered with a dense carpet of selaginella or other lycopodiacea , and these sometimes give place to a variety of herbaceous plants , sometimes with pretty , but rarely with very conspicuous flowers ...
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... fruit produced on them . One of the most beautiful examples of this mode of flowering is a small tree of the genus Polyalthea , belonging to the family of the custard - apples , not uncommon in the forests of North- western Borneo . Its ...
... fruit produced on them . One of the most beautiful examples of this mode of flowering is a small tree of the genus Polyalthea , belonging to the family of the custard - apples , not uncommon in the forests of North- western Borneo . Its ...
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