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Page ix
By what means the first tendency to change their nature was given to domesticated plants , we are entirely ignorant . It is probable that it was originally due to accident , and also that it was still mere chance which continued to ...
By what means the first tendency to change their nature was given to domesticated plants , we are entirely ignorant . It is probable that it was originally due to accident , and also that it was still mere chance which continued to ...
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A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are concentrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity . How this concentration takes place , we are as ignorant as ...
A seedling plant will always partake more or less of the character of its parent , the qualities of which are concentrated in the embryo when it has arrived at full maturity . How this concentration takes place , we are as ignorant as ...
Page xviii
The usual mode of increasing plants , that mode which has been more especially provided by nature , is by seeds ; but , while seeds increase the species without error , the peculiarities of varieties can rarely be perpetuated in the ...
The usual mode of increasing plants , that mode which has been more especially provided by nature , is by seeds ; but , while seeds increase the species without error , the peculiarities of varieties can rarely be perpetuated in the ...
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It is upon the existence of such a remarkable physiological peculiarity in plants , that propagation entirely ... no art will succeed in ever making it become a new plant , no matter how considerable the size of the internodium may be .
It is upon the existence of such a remarkable physiological peculiarity in plants , that propagation entirely ... no art will succeed in ever making it become a new plant , no matter how considerable the size of the internodium may be .
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system of life , or a bud , from a given plant , placing it in due heat and moisture , and surrounding it with fitting food , and thus causing it to grow as a solitary individual , instead of as one of the community to which it ...
system of life , or a bud , from a given plant , placing it in due heat and moisture , and surrounding it with fitting food , and thus causing it to grow as a solitary individual , instead of as one of the community to which it ...
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Page 509 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, DEFECTS, AND INJURIES, | IN ALL KINDS OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES." WITH AN ACCOUNT OF | A PARTICULAR METHOD OF CURE, | PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.
Page 577 - ... sowing of seed for general crops until June or July. If a small quantity of each esteemed variety be sown two or three times in these months, they will produce a plentiful supply for use in autumn and the early part of winter. One ounce of good Endive-seed will produce about five thousand plants. When the plants...