The gardeners dictionary, 第 1 巻1835 |
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ACACIA acuminate acute AGROSTIS ALBUCA aloes animal annual plant appear ARCTOTIS August axillary bark beautiful bipinnate bractes branches calyx Cape capsule colour common cordate corolla corymbs crop cultivated downy duced earth erect feet high feet in height flowering in July foot four fruit gardens genus grain grass green ground grows hairy half hardy herbaceous horses inches Intro Introduced involucrum juice June lanceolate land leaflets leaves linear legume Linnæus loam manure moist Monogynia native oblong obtuse ovate pairs panicle peat peduncles perennial petals petioles Phyllodia pinna pinnæ plant plough pots produced propagated purple quantity racemes ripen roots roundish sandy Scape season seeds sepals sessile sheep shrub smooth soil sort sowing sown species spikes spring stalks stamens stem thick three feet tion toothed tree turnips umbel variety vegetable wheat winter wood yellow
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135 ページ - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
151 ページ - ... pouring in water till it is half full, and then adding the soil till the fluid rises to the mouth ; the difference between the weight of the soil and that of the water will give the result. Thus, if the bottle contains...
263 ページ - ... its head, it got up, pawed two or three times like an old bull, bellowed very loud, stepped back a few steps, and bolted at his legs with all its force ; it then began to paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as before; but knowing its intention...
238 ページ - To have an idea of this noble animal in his native simplicity, we are not to look for him in the pastures, or the stables, to which he has been consigned by man; but in those wild and extensive plains, where he was originally produced, where he ranges without control, and riots in all the variety of luxurious nature.
150 ページ - Thus a sandy soil may sometimes owe its fertility to the power of the subsoil to retain water ; and an absorbent clayey soil may occasionally be prevented from being barren, in a moist climate, by the influence of a substratum of sand or gravel.
26 ページ - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home : and Adoniram was over the levy.
315 ページ - The sentence, no doubt, was thus intended : " In less than half a minute, the respiration [being continued, these feelings] diminished gradually, and were succeeded by [a sensation] analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles.
104 ページ - So very exciting to the nervous system in many individuals, is this Fungus, that the effects are often very ludicrous. If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
135 ページ - ... rent lying by him, therewith to purchase a new lease, beside a fair garnish of pewter on his cupboard, with so much more in odd...
315 ページ - Having previously closed my nostrils and exhausted my lungs, I breathed four quarts of nitrous oxide from and into a silk bag. The first feelings were similar to those produced in the last experiment ; but in less than half a minute, the respiration being continued, they diminished gradually, and were succeeded by a sensation analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles...