The Theory of Horticulture; Or, An Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening: Upon Physiological PrinciplesLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840 - 387 sider |
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... healthy state . A seed , when fully ripe , contains a larger proportion of carbon than any other living part , and so long as it is thus charged with carbon , it is unable to grow . The only means it possesses of ridding itself of this ...
... healthy state . A seed , when fully ripe , contains a larger proportion of carbon than any other living part , and so long as it is thus charged with carbon , it is unable to grow . The only means it possesses of ridding itself of this ...
Side 14
... healthy condition . 27. Roots being furnished with the power of perpetually adding new living matter to their points , are thus enabled to pierce the solid earth in which they grow , to insinuate themselves between the most minute ...
... healthy condition . 27. Roots being furnished with the power of perpetually adding new living matter to their points , are thus enabled to pierce the solid earth in which they grow , to insinuate themselves between the most minute ...
Side 20
... healthy ; and especially when they have the means of obtaining nitrogen , which appears , from its great abundance in the youngest parts , to be indispensable to plants upon the first formation of their tissue . * Mr. Rigg states that ...
... healthy ; and especially when they have the means of obtaining nitrogen , which appears , from its great abundance in the youngest parts , to be indispensable to plants upon the first formation of their tissue . * Mr. Rigg states that ...
Side 34
... healthy condition of plants , that neither the alburnum nor the liber should be injured . The central wood is of little consequence , and may be destroyed , as it constantly is in hollow trees ; and the rind is of comparatively small ...
... healthy condition of plants , that neither the alburnum nor the liber should be injured . The central wood is of little consequence , and may be destroyed , as it constantly is in hollow trees ; and the rind is of comparatively small ...
Side 35
... continued to live and be healthy From the exposed sur- face of the wood no sap made its appear- ance , except from a cut which had been in- advertently made with the saw on one side , to the depth of. D 2 GROWTH BY THE STEM . 35.
... continued to live and be healthy From the exposed sur- face of the wood no sap made its appear- ance , except from a cut which had been in- advertently made with the saw on one side , to the depth of. D 2 GROWTH BY THE STEM . 35.
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2d Edition absorbing action alburnum appears Apple atmosphere bark become blossoms bottom heat branches buds calyx carbonic acid cause cellular circumstances cloth cold coloured consequence containing cultivated damp deciduous decompose degree ditto double flowers dryness earth effect Engravings epidermis exposed favourable flowers fluid FREDRIKA BREMER fruit gardener germination grafting grow growth healthy History Hort Horticultural illustrated inches injury J. C. LOUDON JOHN LINDLEY Knight leaf leaf-buds leaves London manure means moisture morocco nature numerous observed obtained operation organisable matter oxalic acid Peach Pear period perspiration Pine-apple pistil plants Plates pollen pots practice present principles produce propagation proportion quantity ripening roots SAMUEL LAING scion season seed seedling shoots soil species spring stamens stem summer surface temperature tion tissue Trans transplanting TREATISE trees varieties vegetable Vignette Titles vital vols WILLIAM HOWITT winter wood Woodcuts young
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