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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... employed in various branches of the gardener's art . The first part of this work therefore embraces the principal laws and facts in vegetable physiology , as deduced from the investigations of the botanist ; and the second an ...
... employed in various branches of the gardener's art . The first part of this work therefore embraces the principal laws and facts in vegetable physiology , as deduced from the investigations of the botanist ; and the second an ...
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... employed by unskilful gardeners will stand con- spicuous as palpable errors . Only show that plants are endowed with a life , identical in its nature with that of animals , and men must necessarily make it their first business to study ...
... employed by unskilful gardeners will stand con- spicuous as palpable errors . Only show that plants are endowed with a life , identical in its nature with that of animals , and men must necessarily make it their first business to study ...
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... employed for purposes of propagation . There is no rule by which the power of a plant to generate such buds by its roots can be judged of ; experiment is therefore necessary , in all cases , to determine the point . Exceptions to the ...
... employed for purposes of propagation . There is no rule by which the power of a plant to generate such buds by its roots can be judged of ; experiment is therefore necessary , in all cases , to determine the point . Exceptions to the ...
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... to diminish the healthiness of a plant . One of the translators of this work objects to the word digestion employed in the preceding paragraph , upon the ground that the essen- 60 SOLAR LIGHT . tiality of digestion in the animal.
... to diminish the healthiness of a plant . One of the translators of this work objects to the word digestion employed in the preceding paragraph , upon the ground that the essen- 60 SOLAR LIGHT . tiality of digestion in the animal.
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... employed . These functions are performed by means of the vital forces of 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 ...
... employed . These functions are performed by means of the vital forces of 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 ...
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