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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... cold water , or suffocate them in places where no air can reach them , or starve them by withholding the food without which they cannot exist , or cram them with incessant meals of heavy indigestible matter , which can but reduce them ...
... cold water , or suffocate them in places where no air can reach them , or starve them by withholding the food without which they cannot exist , or cram them with incessant meals of heavy indigestible matter , which can but reduce them ...
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... cold border , habitually exhibit the same tendency . And as a further illustration , one published by Mr. W. B. Booth may be introduced . This was the case of a Spanish Chestnut between ninety and one hundred years old , and of ...
... cold border , habitually exhibit the same tendency . And as a further illustration , one published by Mr. W. B. Booth may be introduced . This was the case of a Spanish Chestnut between ninety and one hundred years old , and of ...
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... cold ; Mr. Knight observed the same fact : and it has more recently been proved experimentally by M. Biot . It may therefore be supposed that excessive cases of bleeding occur , because , in addition to the natural contraction of the ...
... cold ; Mr. Knight observed the same fact : and it has more recently been proved experimentally by M. Biot . It may therefore be supposed that excessive cases of bleeding occur , because , in addition to the natural contraction of the ...
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... cold as to condense the vapour ; yet we know that in both cases perspiration is perpetually going on , and it would appear that in plants it takes place more abundantly than in animals . If a plant covered with leaves is placed under a ...
... cold as to condense the vapour ; yet we know that in both cases perspiration is perpetually going on , and it would appear that in plants it takes place more abundantly than in animals . If a plant covered with leaves is placed under a ...
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... cold medium , the former will consume the liquid sap faster than the latter can supply it , and the consequence will be , that the leaves will die , or the fruit will fall off , or the flowers be unable to set their fruit , from want of ...
... cold medium , the former will consume the liquid sap faster than the latter can supply it , and the consequence will be , that the leaves will die , or the fruit will fall off , or the flowers be unable to set their fruit , from want of ...
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