The Vegetable Kingdom: Or, Handbook of Plants and FruitsLott, 1843 - 227 pages |
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Page 171 - Vegetables produce in their organism the blood of all animals, for the carnivora, in consuming the blood and flesh of .the graminivora, consume, strictly speaking, only the vegetable principles which have served for the nutrition of the latter. Vegetable fibrine and albumen take the same form in the stomach of the graminivorous animal as animal fibrine and albumen do in that of the carnivorous animal.
Page 51 - A time will come when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.
Page 19 - Both sexes are united in one flower, in most plants ; in others they are separated ; and the former is, therefore, called a perfect flower, while the latter is called male and female. These last stand on one stem, or are attached to different plants. Evolution is, consequently, most perfect, and most readily effected, in the perfect flowers, as they are called, and likewise when the stem has male and female blossoms. But where the two sexes are entirely separated, evolution takes place only where...
Page 216 - I do use to eat the roots of chervil, with oil and vinegar, being first boiled, which is very good for old people that are dull and without courage ; it rejoiceth and comforteth the heart, and increaseth their strength.
Page 171 - How beautifully and admirably simple, with the aid of these discoveries, appears the process of nutrition in animals, the formation of their organs, in which vitality chiefly resides ! Those vegetable principles, which in animals are used to form blood, contain the chief constituents of blood, fibrine and albumen, ready formed, as far as regards their composition. All plants, besides, contain a certain quantity of iron, which reappears in the colouring matter of the blood.
Page 84 - ... report dated September 25, 1830, the committee say, that they " were deceived by the abundant and extraordinary crop of the preceding year, 1828 ; " and they reduce the rate of income to 6 per cent.
Page 29 - ... great perfection, that it is thought to exceed any other in value. The writer of this hath seen the said captain in Carolina, where he received a handsome gratuity from the gentlemen of that country, in acknowledgment of the service he had done the province.
Page 45 - The size which a plant acquires in a given time is proportional to the surface of the organs destined to convey food to it
Page 5 - Spike. A kind of inflorescence in which the flowers are sessile, or nearly so, as in the mullein, or wheat. Spike'let. A small spike. Spin
Page 116 - ... composed of one equivalent of each of its constituents. Coal gas. Before describing this important compound, it will be proper to direct attention to the substance from which it is derived. Coal. This most valuable of all the mineral substances, from which Britain derives her prosperity, and which may be regarded as the main support of the whole system of British production...