Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... plant . If fown early in the fpring , or even any time before the beginning of June , the plants very commonly fly up to feed the fame fummer , and perish in autumn . If fown in June and July , they acquire perfection in autumn , conti ...
... plant . If fown early in the fpring , or even any time before the beginning of June , the plants very commonly fly up to feed the fame fummer , and perish in autumn . If fown in June and July , they acquire perfection in autumn , conti ...
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... plant clofe in your hand , placing them horizontally in the funny fide of the ridge of earth almoft to their tops , and about fix or eight inches each way diftant . In fevere froft , it will be proper to bestow fome covering on the plants ...
... plant clofe in your hand , placing them horizontally in the funny fide of the ridge of earth almoft to their tops , and about fix or eight inches each way diftant . In fevere froft , it will be proper to bestow fome covering on the plants ...
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... plants ; grow and change to chryfalids , without appearing to undergo any material difference . They have only ru diments of wings , which the laft transformation un- folds , and the infect is then perfect . In the two firft ftages they ...
... plants ; grow and change to chryfalids , without appearing to undergo any material difference . They have only ru diments of wings , which the laft transformation un- folds , and the infect is then perfect . In the two firft ftages they ...
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... plants . The male calyx is almoft pentaphyllous : there is no co- rolla ; the ftamina are 20 in number : the female ... plant fo resembles the actea racemofa , that it is difficult to diftinguish them when not in flower ; but in the ...
... plants . The male calyx is almoft pentaphyllous : there is no co- rolla ; the ftamina are 20 in number : the female ... plant fo resembles the actea racemofa , that it is difficult to diftinguish them when not in flower ; but in the ...
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... plants ; and in the natural method ranking with thofe plants , the order of which is doubtful . The corolla is funnel- fhaped , with a woolly fummit ; the capfule inferior , bilocular , with a parallel partition . Linnæus de fcribes two ...
... plants ; and in the natural method ranking with thofe plants , the order of which is doubtful . The corolla is funnel- fhaped , with a woolly fummit ; the capfule inferior , bilocular , with a parallel partition . Linnæus de fcribes two ...
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