The Journal of a Naturalist ...Carey & Lea, 1831 - 286 sider |
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... Seeds of the Clematis Page 58-83 Naturalist's autumnal walk - beautiful , and full of variety Agaric- beauty and variety - plentiful in Monmouthshire - Agaricus fimi putris- Verdigris agaric - Fungi very uncertain in their growth ...
... Seeds of the Clematis Page 58-83 Naturalist's autumnal walk - beautiful , and full of variety Agaric- beauty and variety - plentiful in Monmouthshire - Agaricus fimi putris- Verdigris agaric - Fungi very uncertain in their growth ...
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... seed of this holcus could not have lain inert in the soil all this time , as it is a grass that rarely or never perfects its seed , but propagates by its root . The only grass that is purposely sown - tre- foils are not grasses - is , I ...
... seed of this holcus could not have lain inert in the soil all this time , as it is a grass that rarely or never perfects its seed , but propagates by its root . The only grass that is purposely sown - tre- foils are not grasses - is , I ...
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... seeds , from the same sack , the one a low , moist , deep soil , the other a dry upland , and in three or four years we shall find the natural herbage of the country spring up , dispute and acquire in part possession of the soil , in ...
... seeds , from the same sack , the one a low , moist , deep soil , the other a dry upland , and in three or four years we shall find the natural herbage of the country spring up , dispute and acquire in part possession of the soil , in ...
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... seed is found , and all the labor in and out is performed by the renter ; or the farmer , in lieu of any rent , receives half the crop . The far- mer's expenses may be rated at- Rent to his landlord Two plowings Twelve loads of manure ...
... seed is found , and all the labor in and out is performed by the renter ; or the farmer , in lieu of any rent , receives half the crop . The far- mer's expenses may be rated at- Rent to his landlord Two plowings Twelve loads of manure ...
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... distinguished by Linnæus as Cerealia , whose seeds have from the earliest periods of time served for the food of man , such as wheat , rye , barley , rice , maize , oats : per- 34 HISTORY OF THE POTATO . haps we must except.
... distinguished by Linnæus as Cerealia , whose seeds have from the earliest periods of time served for the food of man , such as wheat , rye , barley , rice , maize , oats : per- 34 HISTORY OF THE POTATO . haps we must except.
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Side 160 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Side 7 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Side 57 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Side 290 - Arts, the work will be exceedingly rich. Great attention was given to this in the German work, and the Editors have been anxious to render it, by the necessary additions, as perfect as possible. To gentlemen of the Bar, the work will be peculiarly valuable, as in cases where legal subjects are treated, an account is given of the provisions of Anieri-, can, English, French, Prussian, Austrian, and Civil Law.
Side 129 - ... as it is appointed the earliest of risers, it would commonly be famished. In the hot summer of 1825, many of the young brood of the season perished from want; the mornings were without dew, and consequently few or no worms were to be obtained ; and we found them dead under the trees, having expired on their roostings. It was particularly distressing, for no relief could be- given, to hear the constant clamor and importunity of the young for food.
Side 147 - We observed this summer two common thrushes frequenting the shrubs on the green in our garden. From the slenderness of their forms, and the freshness of their plumage, we pronounced them to be birds of the preceding summer. There was an association and friendship between them that called our attention to their actions ; one of them seemed ailing or feeble from some bodily accident, for, though it hopped about, yet it appeared unable to obtain a sufficiency of food.
Side 31 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Side 291 - The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as profit.