 | Forests and forestry - 1883 - 756 pages
...his " Origin of Species." " But how important an element enclosure is I plainly saw near " Farnham in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths with a...enclosed, and self-sown firs are " now springing up iu multitudes so close together that all cannot "live. When I ascertained that these young trees had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...old Scotch firs on the distant hill-tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been inclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes,...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the uninclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 494 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element inclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths with a...hill-tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been inclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 472 pages
...introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the laud had been enclosed, so that cattle could not enter....that these young trees had not been sown or planted, 1 was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 238 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element enclosure is. I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element enclosure is I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
 | George Simonds Boulger - Trees - 1907 - 310 pages
...gives a striking case of this, illustrating the struggle for existence. Near Farnham, in Surrey, " there are extensive heaths, with a few clumps of old...multitudes, so close together that all cannot live. On looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a multitude of seedlings and little trees... | |
 | Natural history - 1903 - 326 pages
...that cattle could not enter. But how important an element enclosure is I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a...their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single... | |
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Firs on the distant hill-tops ; within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot live. When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted,... 
