 | 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...flower-stalks had attained a height of thirty-six feet.]—ED. Notice on the Peninsula of Aden, by Dr. JR ROTH. Bead before the Royal Academy of Sciences... | |
 | 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...flower-stalks had attained a height of thirty-six feet.] — ED. Notice on the Peninsula of Aden, by Dr. JR ROTH. Read before the Royal Academy of Sciences... | |
 | Edward Kemp - Parks - 1851 - 212 pages
...necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof of the house for the emission of one panicle of flowers (26 feet from the ground), a similar release was needed...months, the flowerstalks had attained a height of 36 feet ! The flowers were innumerable on the great panicles : they produced no seed, but were succeeded... | |
 | 350 pages
...required room for their heads. After this they grew more slowly; still in two months the flower stalks had attained a height of thirty-six feet! The flowers were innumerable on the great panicles, but were succeeded by thousands of young plants springing from the topmost branches, and these continued... | |
 | John Weale - London (England) - 1852 - 966 pages
...necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof of the house for the emission of one panicle of flowers (26 feet from the ground), a similar release was needed...months, the flowerstalks had attained a height of 36 feet ! The flowers were innumerable on the great panicles : they produced no seed, but were succeeded... | |
 | John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof of the house for the emission of one panicle of flowers (26 feet from the ground), a similar release was needed...months, the flowerstalks had attained a height of 36 feet ! The flowers were innumerable on the great panicles : they produced no seed, but were succeeded... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1857 - 396 pages
...exposed to the air they did not grow so fast, but still in two months the flower stalks had reached the height of thirty-six feet. The flowers were innumerable...on the great panicles ; they produced no seed, but thousands of young plants sprang from the topmost branches, and continued growing, attached to the... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pages
...necessary to make an aperture in the glass roof of the house for the emission of one panicle of flowers (twenty-six feet from the ground), a similar release...young plants, springing from the topmost branches ; and these continued growing while attached to the stem for a loug while after the death of the parent-plants,... | |
 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver - Botanical gardens - 1872 - 126 pages
...found necessary to make an aperture in the glass 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 of these plants are borne in branched panicles upon tall terminal... | |
 | Henry Allnutt - 1877 - 156 pages
...found necessary to make an aperture in the glass 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 are borne in branched panicles upon tall terminal stems, often 20 feet or more... | |
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... (twenty-six feet from the ground), a similar release was needed by the other. The rate of growth then most sensibly diminished ; still, in two months the flower-stalks had attained a height of thirtysix feet ! The flowers were innumerable on the great... 
