Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page 51
... kind lasts but a few weeks , while different species flower almost every month in the year . It is also due to the manner of growth of orchids , generally in single plants or clumps which are seldom large or conspicuous as compared with ...
... kind lasts but a few weeks , while different species flower almost every month in the year . It is also due to the manner of growth of orchids , generally in single plants or clumps which are seldom large or conspicuous as compared with ...
Page 54
... kinds make excellent arrows . One of the few agricul- tural tools used by the Papuans - a spud or hoe for planting or weeding - is made of a stout bamboo cut somewhat like the spear . For various domestic purposes the uses of bamboo are ...
... kinds make excellent arrows . One of the few agricul- tural tools used by the Papuans - a spud or hoe for planting or weeding - is made of a stout bamboo cut somewhat like the spear . For various domestic purposes the uses of bamboo are ...
Page 56
... kind of basket , too , is made of bamboo , from the coarsest heavy kinds to such as are fine and ornamental . In such countries as Lombock and Macassar , where the land is much cultivated and timber scarce , entire houses are built of ...
... kind of basket , too , is made of bamboo , from the coarsest heavy kinds to such as are fine and ornamental . In such countries as Lombock and Macassar , where the land is much cultivated and timber scarce , entire houses are built of ...
Page 66
... kinds that their forks and horizontal branches are veritable gardens . Creeping ferns and arums run the smoothest trunks ; an immense variety of climbers hang in tangled masses from the branches and mount over up the highest tree - tops ...
... kinds that their forks and horizontal branches are veritable gardens . Creeping ferns and arums run the smoothest trunks ; an immense variety of climbers hang in tangled masses from the branches and mount over up the highest tree - tops ...
Page 75
... kinds , were about a dozen species of Eunica , which are of large size and conspicuous from their liveries of glossy dark blue and purple . A superbly adorned creature , the Callithea Markii , having wings of a thick texture , coloured ...
... kinds , were about a dozen species of Eunica , which are of large size and conspicuous from their liveries of glossy dark blue and purple . A superbly adorned creature , the Callithea Markii , having wings of a thick texture , coloured ...
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