 | George Lindley - Fruit-culture - 1831 - 674 pages
...which it is, above all things, necessary that the attention of the cultivator should be directed, viz. AMELIORATION and PROPAGATION. Amelioration consists...tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without, then, vainly endeavouring... | |
 | George Lindley - 1831 - 648 pages
...which it is, above all things, necessary that the attention of the cultivator should be directed, viz. AMELIORATION and PROPAGATION.. Amelioration consists...tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits arc a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without, then, vainly endeavouring... | |
 | William Robert Prince, William Prince - Fruit - 1831 - 236 pages
...necessary that the attention of the cultivator should be directed, viz. AMELIORATION and PBOPAGATION. " Amelioration consists either in acquiring new and...this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a parallel casein the vegetable world. " Without, then, vainly endeavouring... | |
 | George Lindley - 1831 - 662 pages
...necessary that the attention of the cultivator should be directed, viz. AMELIORATION and PROPAGATION. By what means the first tendency to change their nature...tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without, then, vainly endeavouring... | |
 | Gardening - 1831 - 780 pages
...acquiring new or improved varieties of fruit, or in increasing their good qualities when acquired. . . . There is in all beings a disposition to deviate from...this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. " Cultivators increase this disposition... | |
 | Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...acquiring new or improved varieties of fruit, or in increasing their good qualities when acquired. . . . There is in all beings a disposition to deviate from...tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. " Cultivators increase this disposition... | |
 | William Robert Prince - Fruit - 1832 - 430 pages
...necessary that the attention of the cultivator should be directed, viz. AMELIORATION and PIIOPAGATIOX. " Ameliorat'ion consists either in acquiring new and...instance, the dog, the pigeon, and the barn-yard fowl, arc cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a... | |
 | 1833 - 494 pages
...know that this tendency does exist, and in a most remarkable degree in many species. There is, _in all beings, a disposition to deviate from their original...tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. " Without, then, vainly endeavouring... | |
 | Agriculture - 1839 - 520 pages
...or the worse. Philosophers, says Mr. Lindley, are unacquainted with the reason why there should he any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strengly JIM i ii'ii in animals, and domesticated fruits are • parallel case in the vegetable world.... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Espaliers - 1839 - 528 pages
...produces this tendency to change for the better or the worse. " Philosophers," says Mr. Lindley, " are unacquainted with the reason why there should...this tendency is most strongly marked in animals, and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world." " Without, then, vainly endeavouring,"... | |
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It is probable that it was originally due to accident, and also that it was still mere chance which continued to operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters... 
