 | Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 páginas
...and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite...manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably,... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 páginas
...drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it_ and, most of all, by throwing up such infmite numbers of lumps of earth, called worm-casts, which,...where the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms, —... | |
 | John Fleming - 1859 - 262 páginas
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 páginas
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; and, most of all, by throwing...where the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms;... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 páginas
...the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it : and most of all by throwing...excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass." The opinions thus advanced by the Rev. Gilbert White, as to the importance and utility of earth-worms,... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, George Johnston - 1865 - 434 páginas
...pervious to rains, and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into itf; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ;... | |
 | Charles R. Baker - 1866 - 532 páginas
...plants, by drawing straws, and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; they also throw up an infinite number of lumps of earth, called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grass and grain. Worms also probably provide new soil for hills and slopes when the rain has washed... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1867 - 672 páginas
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks and leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps, called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for... | |
 | 1867 - 652 páginas
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks and leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps, called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1868 - 228 páginas
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing...grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for bills, and slopes, wbere the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid... | |
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... worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and... 
