The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer

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Journal of Horticulture, 1881

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第 275 頁 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; — go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
第 252 頁 - After stopping one day at Adrianople, we set out to finish the last stage of our journey to Constantinople, which is not far distant. As we passed through these districts we were presented with large nosegays of flowers, the narcissus, the hyacinth, and the tulipan (as the Turks call this last) . We were very much surprised to see them blooming in midwinter, a season which does not suit flowers at all. There is a great abundance of the narcissus and hyacinth in Greece ; their fragrance is perfectly...
第 67 頁 - ... means of defraying the expense of instruments of the best construction, which were gratuitously distributed to all parts of Europe and even to America. One of the first acts of the Association was to write to all the principal universities, scientific academies, and colleges, soliciting their co-operation and offering to present them with all the necessary instruments properly verified by standards and free of expense. The offer was...
第 67 頁 - The cost of the publication of this volume exhausted the funds of the Society, but in 1841 Mr. Gutch undertook personally the pecuniary risk of a new publication entitled the Quarterly Journal of Meteorology, but this does not appear to have been very successful, owing to the high rate of postage. Shortly after this the Society practically came to an end. On April 3, 1850, a meeting of some friends of the science was convened by Dr. Lee at Hartwell, when the British Meteorological Society was established,...
第 67 頁 - ... society, but in 1841 Mr. Gutch undertook personally the pecuniary risk of a new publication entitled the Quarterly Journal of Meteorology; but this does not appear to have been very successful owing to the high rate of postage. Shortly after this the society practically came to an end. On April 3, 1850, a meeting of some friends of the science was convened by Dr. Lee, at Hartwell, when the "British Meteorological Society
第 67 頁 - Society was held on the 13th inst. at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. GJ Symons, FRS, President, in the chair. The report of the Council for the year...
第 286 頁 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
第 49 頁 - The cones shed their seeds, which are two to two and a half inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad ; they are sweet before being perfectly ripe, and after that resemble roasted chestnuts in taste. They are plentiful once in three years, and when the ripening season arrives, which is generally in the month of January, the aboriginals assemble in large numbers from a great distance around, and feast upon them. Each tribe has its own particular set of trees, and of these each family has a certain...
第 114 頁 - the priest would say ; " have faith, and thy prayer will be answered ! Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet ; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert.
第 174 頁 - By and by the egg bursts, and out comes a little white maggot, with neither legs nor wings, which, directly it is hatched, begins to devour the young and tender stamens : next to these, the style is attacked, and eaten down to the fruit, the upper part of which is quickly consumed ; the maggot is then full fed ; it casts its skin, becomes a chrysalis, and lays perfectly still.

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