 | John Barton - Phytogeography - 1827 - 124 pages
...Primrose, a Cowslip, and Oxlips of the usual and other colours; a Black Polyanthus, a Hose-in-hose Cowslip, and a natural Primrose bearing its flower on a Polyanthus stalk*. Why then are not these varieties found in our fields or coppices? If manure is wanting, surely any... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 358 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower...local varieties depending upon soil and situation *." Professor Henslow, of Cambridge, has since confirmed this experiment of Mr. Herbert, so that we... | |
 | 1833 - 494 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a nose-in-nose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk. From the seed of that very nose-in-nose cowslip I have since raised a nose-in-nose primrose. I therefore consider all these to... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips, of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose, bearing its flower...local varieties depending upon soil and situation." * Professor Henslow, of Cambridge, has since confirmed this experiment of Mr. Herbert ; so that we... | |
 | John Jacob - Botany - 1836 - 374 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose in hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk. From the seed of that very hose in hose cowslip, I have raised since a hose in hose primrose. I therefore consider all these to... | |
 | Ambrose Blacklock - Sheep - 1838 - 270 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower...hose-in-hose primrose. I therefore consider all these JMPBOVEMENT OF THE BREEDS. to be only local varieties, depending upon soil and situation." " Fifty... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower...local varieties, depending upon soil and situation." I confess that I had myself given very little credit to this experiment of Mr. Herbert's, until it... | |
 | James Rennie - 1852 - 174 pages
...other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose, bearing its flowers on a polyanthus stalk. From the seed of that very...hose-in-hose primrose. I therefore consider all these to he only local varieties, depending upon soil and situation." — Hort. Trans., iv. 19. This fact cannot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of I the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose, ' bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk ; — all these are instances of varieties, depending upon soil and situation. There is, however, no... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk. I therefore consider all these to be only local varieties, depending upon soil and situation." —... | |
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I raised from the natural seed of one umbel of a highly-manured red cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips, of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose, bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk. From... 
