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Page 58 - Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...
Page 211 - The gas was collected, and found to be a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter.
Page 42 - Plants with annual stems require more than those with ligneous stems. 4. The amount of moisture in the air most suitable to plants at rest is in inverse proportion to the quantity of aqueous matter they at that time contain. (Hence the dryness of the air required by...
Page 250 - ... mixed with a sixth part of the same quantity of the ashes of burnt bones : put it into a tin box, with holes in the top, and shake the powder on the surface of the plaster till the whole is covered...
Page 14 - Tuberous, or knobbed, as in the potato, which consists of fleshy knobs, connected by common stalks or fibres. 6. Bulbous, as in the crocus. 7. Granulated, or having a cluster of little bulbs or scales connected by a common fibre, as in the saxifrage.
Page 248 - Always to take them from healthy fruitful trees ; for, if the trees from which they are taken be sickly, the grafts very often partake so much of the distemper, as rarely to get the better of it, at least for some years ; and when they are taken from young luxuriant trees, whose vessels are generally large, they will continue to produce...
Page 250 - ... and a sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or river sand : the three last articles are to be sifted fine before they are mixed ; then work them well together with a spade, and afterwards with a wooden beater, until the stuff is very smooth, like fine plaster used for ceilings of rooms.
Page 44 - Evaporation increases in a prodigiously rapid ratio with the velocity of the wind, and anything which retards the motion of the latter is very efficacious in diminishing the amount of the former : the same surface which, in a calm state of the air, would exhale 100 parts of moisture, would yield 125 in a moderate breeze, and 150 in a high wind.
Page 87 - India, and it is a matter of surprise that it is not more frequently met with.
Page 42 - The quantity of atmospheric moisture required by plants is, cceteris paribus, in inverse proportion to the distance from the equator of the countries which they naturally inhabit. 3. Plants with annual stems require more than those with ligneous stems. 4. The amount of moisture in the air most...