 | 1864 - 746 pages
...and for purposes of drainage, exceeds £300. I have measured stems twelve feet long and threequarters of an inch in diameter. In some of the mountain districts,...from competition with these more vigorous intruders." I have urged upon various Colonial correspondents the great importance of systematically collecting... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...threaten to choke them altogether: * * * I have measured stems twelve feet long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter. In some of the mountain districts,...displacing the native grasses, forming a close sward. * * * In fact, the young native vegetation appears to shrink from competition with these more vigorous... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...threaten to choke them altogether : * * * I have measured stems twelve feet long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter. In some of the mountain districts,...displacing the native grasses, forming a close sward. * * * In fact, the young native vegetation appears to shrink from competition with these more vigorous... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...purposes of drainage exceeds 300/. I have measured stems twelve feet lout; and three quarters of an inoh in diameter. In some of the mountain districts, where...displacing the native grasses, forming a close sward." — and later in his article he tells ue the most remarkable fact of all, that, — " The little white... | |
 | Medicine - 1868 - 828 pages
...annual cost of keeping the river free for boat navigation and for purposes of drainage exceeds 300/. I have measured stems twelve feet long and three quarters...the mountain districts, where the soil is loose, the while clover is completely displacing the native grasses, forming a close sward. Foreign trees are... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1868 - 692 pages
...stream, the Avon, which runs through Christchurch. Stems of this water-cress have been measured 1 2 feet long and three quarters of an inch in diameter. In some mountain districts the white clover is displacing the native grasses, and foreign trees, such as poplars,... | |
 | 1867 - 818 pages
...annual cost of keeping the river free for boat navigation, and for purposes of drainage, exceeds 300/. I have measured stems twelve feet long and three quarters...to shrink from competition with these more vigorous in traders." Dr. Haast, FLS, the eminent explorer and geologist, also writes to me as follows : —... | |
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... feet. The watercress increases in our still rivers to such an extent as to threaten to choke them altogether ; in fact, in the Avon, a still deep stream running through Christ Church, the annual cost of keeping the river free for boat navigation,... 