The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 5Longman, Rees, Orome, Brown and Green, 1829 - Agriculture |
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... Means of educating the Feelings of the Laborious Classes . By Variegata Some Account of the Public Orangeries , or Public Winter Gardens , of Berlin . By M. G. A. Fintelmann of Potsdam An Account of some Experiments in Physiolo- 251 ...
... Means of educating the Feelings of the Laborious Classes . By Variegata Some Account of the Public Orangeries , or Public Winter Gardens , of Berlin . By M. G. A. Fintelmann of Potsdam An Account of some Experiments in Physiolo- 251 ...
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... means bad of themselves , but actually good . Of all the obstacles to self - improvement which a traveller has to contend with , the greatest will generally be found his own preconceived notions . We , in Britain , are particularly ...
... means bad of themselves , but actually good . Of all the obstacles to self - improvement which a traveller has to contend with , the greatest will generally be found his own preconceived notions . We , in Britain , are particularly ...
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... means you can not only steam your house or frame , but increase its heat several degrees at will . I proved this by closing both lights of my frame , and opening the pipes of the tray : in ten minutes the heat had increased 10 ...
... means you can not only steam your house or frame , but increase its heat several degrees at will . I proved this by closing both lights of my frame , and opening the pipes of the tray : in ten minutes the heat had increased 10 ...
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... means set them in a shady situation . Bot- tom heat is not necessary . I have been the more minute , as I am convinced , from ocular observation as well as report , that there are a great many gardeners still unacquainted with the ...
... means set them in a shady situation . Bot- tom heat is not necessary . I have been the more minute , as I am convinced , from ocular observation as well as report , that there are a great many gardeners still unacquainted with the ...
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... means satisfactory , as it is impossible , on so small a scale , to do it justice . It will be evident , also , that , in order to show the flowers and fruit , I have been obliged to exhibit only a few leaves , and those in so stiff and ...
... means satisfactory , as it is impossible , on so small a scale , to do it justice . It will be evident , also , that , in order to show the flowers and fruit , I have been obliged to exhibit only a few leaves , and those in so stiff and ...
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Page 26 - If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy. that hill and valley ring.
Page 669 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life ; want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.
Page 79 - Swallows follow the flies and gnats, and flies and gnats usually delight in warm strata of air; and as warm air is lighter, and usually moister than cold air, when the warm strata of air are high, there is less chance of moisture being thrown down from them by the mixture with cold air; but when the warm and moist air is close to the surface, it is almost certain that, as the cold air flows down into it, a deposition of water will take place.
Page 78 - ... in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us ; whereas the rainbow in the east proves that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.
Page 141 - ... tree, in his banner that glances, Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line! Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew, Gayly to bourgeon, and broadly to grow, While every Highland glen Sends our shout back agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Page 79 - For anglers, in spring, it is always unlucky to see single magpies; but two may be always regarded as a favorable omen; and the reason is, that in cold and stormy weather one magpie alone leaves the nest in search of food, the other remaining sitting upon the eggs or the young ones; but when two go out together it is only when the weather is warm and mild, and favorable for fishing.
Page 305 - About the end of May the periodical rains again commence. The torrents of water discharged from the clouds are so great as to render the roads impassable in the course of a few hours, when all trucking ceases ; the cattle are turned into the pasture, and the trucks, gear, and tools, etc., are housed.
Page 78 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Page 139 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined.
Page 308 - Frenchman, who values all objects only as they please the eye, without reference to their being common -or searce, is willing to pay a greater price for a lovely rose-bush, than for the rarest plant from New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope, and as to the poor artizan of the French capital, he only thinks of vegetable productions as they are fit for culinary uses ; and whether they be blue or green to look at, is the same to him. Hence it arises that the Parisian flower-market offers a much more...