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... results are correctly stated in such books , they are not unfrequently referred to wrong causes . In preparing the following pages for the press , my anxious desire has been to strike out all unne- cessary matter , even although it may ...
... results are correctly stated in such books , they are not unfrequently referred to wrong causes . In preparing the following pages for the press , my anxious desire has been to strike out all unne- cessary matter , even although it may ...
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... results ; but an intelligible explanation , founded upon well ascertained facts which he can judge of by his own means of ob- servation , of the general nature of vegetable ac- tions , and of the causes which , while they control the ...
... results ; but an intelligible explanation , founded upon well ascertained facts which he can judge of by his own means of ob- servation , of the general nature of vegetable ac- tions , and of the causes which , while they control the ...
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... result is worth when at- tained . No man understood this better than the late Mr. Knight , the best horticultural physiolo- gist that the world has seen , whose experiments - were conducted with a skill and knowledge which few X PREFACE .
... result is worth when at- tained . No man understood this better than the late Mr. Knight , the best horticultural physiolo- gist that the world has seen , whose experiments - were conducted with a skill and knowledge which few X PREFACE .
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... results must neces- sarily be uncertain ; and , I believe , a very able and experienced gardener , after having been the in- ventor of the most perfect machinery , might , in very many instances , have lost both his character and his ...
... results must neces- sarily be uncertain ; and , I believe , a very able and experienced gardener , after having been the in- ventor of the most perfect machinery , might , in very many instances , have lost both his character and his ...
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... result of all which is , that the insensible perspiration of plants is very con- Hales says his sunflower perspired siderable . * The amount of this force is strikingly illustrated by the following circumstance recorded by the late Mr ...
... result of all which is , that the insensible perspiration of plants is very con- Hales says his sunflower perspired siderable . * The amount of this force is strikingly illustrated by the following circumstance recorded by the late Mr ...
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