The Theory and Practice of Horticulture: Or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Operations of Gardening Upon Physiological GraoundsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 606 páginas |
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... vegetation , we discover certain unquestionable analogies of a general nature , between the animal and vegetable kingdoms . And although it is necessary that plants should be studied by themselves , as an abstract branch of ...
... vegetation , we discover certain unquestionable analogies of a general nature , between the animal and vegetable kingdoms . And although it is necessary that plants should be studied by themselves , as an abstract branch of ...
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... vegetation to breathe , and feed , and grow ; which distinguishes all organised beings from the brute matter of which they consist , is the same as what gives to man the high attributes of his nature . It is VITALITY ; a word which so ...
... vegetation to breathe , and feed , and grow ; which distinguishes all organised beings from the brute matter of which they consist , is the same as what gives to man the high attributes of his nature . It is VITALITY ; a word which so ...
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... vegetation of a plant will become when once renewed , if that period is not excessively protracted . A critic remarks that , of the continually - absorbing power of the roots , the simile of a wick of a candle is certainly one of the ...
... vegetation of a plant will become when once renewed , if that period is not excessively protracted . A critic remarks that , of the continually - absorbing power of the roots , the simile of a wick of a candle is certainly one of the ...
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... vegetation , so far as any one organ can be called most important where all are so mutually dependent the one on the other , and so powerfully concur in maintaining the system of vegetable life , that it is difficult to abstract one ...
... vegetation , so far as any one organ can be called most important where all are so mutually dependent the one on the other , and so powerfully concur in maintaining the system of vegetable life , that it is difficult to abstract one ...
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... vegetation , which we cannot estimate or comprehend , assisted by the influence of an external agent , the nature of whose action may be understood from its effects . That agent is solar light . It is the property of solar light , when ...
... vegetation , which we cannot estimate or comprehend , assisted by the influence of an external agent , the nature of whose action may be understood from its effects . That agent is solar light . It is the property of solar light , when ...
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