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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... side have corresponding parts on the other , is understood by , and gives satisfaction to the most ordinary observer : there is an obvious reason for every thing , for there is but one principle of guidance , symmetry : but , in an ...
... side have corresponding parts on the other , is understood by , and gives satisfaction to the most ordinary observer : there is an obvious reason for every thing , for there is but one principle of guidance , symmetry : but , in an ...
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... sides , as to education , parents will recollect that the better their children are educated , the fitter will they be to change their profession , if they should not succeed in it , or to suffer the disappointment with patience , and ...
... sides , as to education , parents will recollect that the better their children are educated , the fitter will they be to change their profession , if they should not succeed in it , or to suffer the disappointment with patience , and ...
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... side of the public road , and the trees around the residences we have just mentioned . A great many hawthorns have been irregularly scattered throughout the grounds , and during the administration of Earl Talbot several very formal ...
... side of the public road , and the trees around the residences we have just mentioned . A great many hawthorns have been irregularly scattered throughout the grounds , and during the administration of Earl Talbot several very formal ...
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... side of the cup towards the centre , and from a cavity capable of holding a considerable quantity of moisture . From the base of this cavity rises up an erect solid stalk , upon the top of which , above the stamens , is placed a little ...
... side of the cup towards the centre , and from a cavity capable of holding a considerable quantity of moisture . From the base of this cavity rises up an erect solid stalk , upon the top of which , above the stamens , is placed a little ...
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... sides or behind . The poplar is very generally planted before the cot- tages and residences which are to be found on the roads a few miles from the metropolis ; and , as forming a part of those re- sidences , nothing can be worse : you ...
... sides or behind . The poplar is very generally planted before the cot- tages and residences which are to be found on the roads a few miles from the metropolis ; and , as forming a part of those re- sidences , nothing can be worse : you ...
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Page 288 - Evaporation increases in a prodigiously rapid ratio with the velocity of the wind; and any thing which retards the motion of the latter is very efficacious in diminishing the amount of the former; the same surface, which in a calm state of the air would exhale 100. parts of moisture, would yield 125 in a moderate breeze, and 150 in a high wind.
Page 470 - I ihink it is about forty yards long. It is a great curiosity." In some of the villages near Northampton, are some elder trees of singularly unusual size.
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