The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 - Agriculture |
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... curator of the College garden , is so well known as an indefati- gable botanist , that any observation here regarding him would be quite superfluous . All these botanic gardens are ably Present State of Gardening in Ireland . 11.
... curator of the College garden , is so well known as an indefati- gable botanist , that any observation here regarding him would be quite superfluous . All these botanic gardens are ably Present State of Gardening in Ireland . 11.
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... botanist . In the botanical investigation of the different species , a high interest is kept up from a consideration of the various properties and separate habits peculiar to each individual species , yet all tending to one great and ...
... botanist . In the botanical investigation of the different species , a high interest is kept up from a consideration of the various properties and separate habits peculiar to each individual species , yet all tending to one great and ...
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... botanist has not been attached , with ample means of prose- cuting his pursuits . Resident botanists and collectors have been placed in every colony belonging to the French govern- ment , whose foreign possessions have scarcely been ...
... botanist has not been attached , with ample means of prose- cuting his pursuits . Resident botanists and collectors have been placed in every colony belonging to the French govern- ment , whose foreign possessions have scarcely been ...
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... botanists celebrated in their day , has acquired a high degree of reputation ; the Jar- din des Plantes at Paris is also an establishment of great cele- brity , and numbers of the rarest plants have been reared with- in its walls : but ...
... botanists celebrated in their day , has acquired a high degree of reputation ; the Jar- din des Plantes at Paris is also an establishment of great cele- brity , and numbers of the rarest plants have been reared with- in its walls : but ...
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... botanist , and an ample retinue of attendants , among whom were two draughtsmen , reached Lima in April 1778. The results of this famous enterprise are too well known to require repetition here . Suffice it to say , that the advantages ...
... botanist , and an ample retinue of attendants , among whom were two draughtsmen , reached Lima in April 1778. The results of this famous enterprise are too well known to require repetition here . Suffice it to say , that the advantages ...
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