 | Science - 1869 - 542 pages
...brilliant masses of colour as our England can show in her furze-clad commons, her heathery mountain sides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies,...buttercups and orchises — carpets of yellow, purple, azure blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit .... In the regions of the equator... | |
 | Robert Oliver Cunningham - Natural history - 1871 - 940 pages
...the landscape than in temperate climates," and that he has never seen in the tropics " such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad...of buttercups and orchises — carpets of yellow, azure-blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit." This, I think, may be partially... | |
 | Henry Walker (F.G.S.) - London (England) - 1871 - 160 pages
...such brilliant masses of colour as England can show in her furzeclad commons, her heathery hill-sides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies,...fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit. Our hawthorn and crab-trees, our holly and mountain ash, our broom, foxglove, and primroses and purple... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardens in literature - 1878 - 316 pages
...of England. Mr. Wallace bears this testimony:— " I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her Furze-clad commons, her glades of wild Hyacinths, her fields of Poppies, her meadows of Buttercups and Orchises, carpets of... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 320 pages
...colour to the landscape than in temperate climates. 7. I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad...fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit. s. We have smaller masses of colour in our hawthorn and crab-trees, our holly and mountain ash, our... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...masses, often of limestone, hanging from the roofs of caves like icicles. the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad...buttercups and orchises — carpets of yellow, purple, azure blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit. 6. We have smaller masses of colour... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 334 pages
...colour to the landscape than in temperate climates. r. I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad...fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit. 8 We have smaller masses of colour in our hawthorn and crab-trees, our holly and mountain ash, our... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - Animal behavior - 1902 - 508 pages
...such brilliant masses of colour as England can show in her furze-clad commons, her heathery hillsides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies,...fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit." AR WALLACE, Malay Archipelago. WE are glad at this season to see the little ladybird in our Kentish... | |
 | John Harvey Lovell - Bee culture - 1918 - 312 pages
...has her furze-clad commons," says Wallace, "her glades of wild hyacinths, her heathery mountainsides, her fields of poppies, her meadows of buttercups and...purple, azure-blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics rarely can exhibit. We have smaller masses of color in our hawthorn and crab-trees, our holly and mountain-ash,... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1890 - 410 pages
...colour to the landscape than in 'temperate climates. I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad commons, her heathery mountain sides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies, her meadows of buttercups and... | |
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... parts of the tropics, flowers are less abundant, on the average less showy, and are far less effective in adding colour to the landscape than in temperate climates. 
