 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1849 - 420 pages
...flowering-stem, which at first resembled a gigantic shoot of young Asparagus, and grew at first at the rate of two feet in the twenty-four hours ! So precisely...roof of the house for the emission of one panicle, (twenty-six feet from the ground,) a similar release was needed by the other. The rate of growth then... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1849 - 424 pages
...a gigantic shoot of young Asparagus, and grew at first at the rate of two feet in the twenty -four hours ! So precisely did the twin plants keep pace...roof of the house for the emission of one panicle, (twenty-six feet from the ground,) a similar release was needed by the other. The rate of growth then... | |
 | John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...stem, which resembled a gigantic head of asparagus, and grew at first at the astonishing rate of 2 feet in the twenty-four hours. So precisely did the...twin plants keep pace with each other, that at the yery time it was found necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof of the house for the emission... | |
 | Temperance - 1853 - 396 pages
...the astonishing rate of two feet in the twentyfour hours. So precisely did the twin plants keep time with each other, that at the very time it was found necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof for the emission of one panicle of flowers, (twenty-six feet from the ground,) a similar release was... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pages
...feet in the twenty-four hours. So precisely did the twin plants keep pace with each THB AMERICAN ALOE. other, that at the very time it was found necessary...the house for the emission of one panicle of flowers (twenty-six feet from the ground), a similar release was needed by the other. The rate of' growth then... | |
 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver - Botanical gardens - 1872 - 126 pages
...of that year, when each was seen to produce a flowering stem, which grew at first at the rate of ten feet in the twenty-four hours. So precisely did the...roof of the house for the emission of one panicle (26 feet from the ground), a similar release was needed by the other.' — SIR WJ HOOKER. . The flowers... | |
 | Henry Allnutt - 1877 - 156 pages
...summer of that year, when each was seen to produce a flowering stem, which grew at first most Tapidly. So precisely did the twin plants keep pace with each...roof of the house for the emission of one panicle (26 feet from the ground), a similar release was needed by the other." The flowers of these plants... | |
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had been," says Sir William, " in the royal gardens, first of Hampton Court and then of Kew, probably from the earliest introduction of the species into Europe, upwards of a century ago (in 1731). On one and the same day, in the summer of 1844, each was... 