The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 12Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1836 - Gardening |
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Page 438 - The Agriculturist's Manual; being a familiar Description of the Agricultural Plants cultivated in Europe, including practical Observations respecting those suited to the Climate of Great Britain; and forming a Report of Lawson's Agricultural Museum in Edinburgh. By Peter Lawson and Son, Seedsmen and Nurserymen to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
Page 585 - He showed me the zinnar tree, or platanus; and told me that, since they had planted this kind of tree about the city of Ispahan, in Persia, the plague, which formerly much infested the place, had exceedingly abated of its mortal effects, and rendered it very healthy.
Page 598 - in monthly numbers, 4to, 2s. 6d. each. Conducted by GB Knowles, Esq., and Frederick Westcott, Esq., Honorary Secretaries of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. The Botanist ; containing accurately coloured Figures of tender and hardy ornamental Plants; with Descriptions, scientific and popular; intended to convey
Page 101 - extraordinary ; but we found, by experience, during our stay at Barbula, that the virtues of the Palo de Vaca had not been exaggerated. This fine tree rises like the broad-leaved star apple. Its oblong and pointed leaves, tough and alternate, are marked by lateral ribs, prominent at the lower surface, and parallel. They are
Page 102 - de Leche). They profess to recognise, from the thickness and colour of the foliage, the trunks that yield the most juice; as the herdsman distinguishes, from external signs, a good milch cow. No botanist has hitherto known the existence of this plant, of which it is easy to procure the parts of fructification. It
Page 679 - more than one side capable of being maintained otherwise than by simple assertion; while all the great questions which arise in busy life, and agitate the world, are stoutly disputed, and often with a show of reason on both sides, which leaves the shrewdest at a loss for a decision.
Page 101 - but, on the contact of nitric acid, the separation of the viscous membranes took place. " The extraordinary tree of which we have been speaking appears to be peculiar to the Cordillera of the coast, particularly from Barbula to the Lake of Maracaybo. Some stocks of it exist near the village of San Mateo
Page 679 - to their best ultimate interest, which is the misfortune, rather than the fault, of every mercantile community upon earth, seems to be, to inculcate, as a part of education, those broad principles of free interchange and reciprocal profit, and public justice, on which the whole edifice of permanently successful enterprise must be based.
Page 679 - as to place him on his guard against those obvious and popular fallacies which lie across the threshold of this, as well as of every other subject, with which human reason has any thing to do. Every man is called upon to obey the laws; and therefore it cannot be
Page 688 - of the original vegetable texture, exhibits other cells, which are filled with a light wineyellow-coloured matter, apparently of a bituminous nature, and which is so volatile as to be entirely expelled by heat before any change is effected in the other constituents of the coal. The number and appearance of