Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Volume 7Sir William Jackson Hooker Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1855 - Botany |
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Page 219 - Encyclopaedia of Plants : Comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable Particular respecting all the Plants found in Great Britain.
Page 219 - OF PLANTS; Including all the Plants which are now found in, or have been introduced into, Great Britain ; giving their Natural History, accompanied by such descriptions, engraved figures, and elementary details, as may enable a beginner, who is a mere English reader, to discover the name of every Plant which he may find in flower, and acquire all the information respecting it which is useful and interesting.
Page 25 - They are embraced within a range of two hundred acres, and are enclosed in a basin of coarse, siliceous material, surrounded by a sloping ridge of sienitic rock, which in some places projects above the soil. The basin is reeking with moisture, and in the lowest places the water is standing, and some of the largest trees dip their roots into the pools or water-runs. The trees of very large dimensions number considerably more than one hundred.
Page 181 - ... and only dispose of the remaining fraction. This is the reason why it is impossible to give even a rough estimate of the quantity annually produced. About Hanover the nuts are gathered towards the end of October or the beginning of November. This is done either by picking up by hand those which have fallen to the ground, or by spreading out large sheets under the trees and beating the branches with poles, so as to cause the nuts to separate from them. The latter process appears, at first sight,...
Page 153 - Bryologia Britannica Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland systematically arranged and described according to the Method of Bruch and Schimper; with 61 illustrative Plates. Being a New Edition, enlarged and altered, of the Miucotogift Britannica of Messrs. Hooker and Taylor.
Page 25 - Camp,' on the Stanislaus. So far as known, the vegetable growth to which the name of ' Big Tree ' has been attached grows in no other region of the Sierra Nevada, nor on any other mountain range of the earth. It exists here only, and all the individuals of its kind, so far as I can learn, are localized to this vicinity. They are embraced within a range of...
Page 182 - Ib. selling for about sevenpence. The oil is of a pale yellow colour, and has an extremely agreeable taste. It is often adulterated with walnut-oil ; the latter is even sold as beech-oil, and that may account for the difference of opinion entertained respecting the quality of the beech-oil. The townspeople use it chiefly as salad oil, but the peasantry employ it generally as a substitute for butter, &c., and only when there has been a good harvest of nuts, for burning in their lamps. The husks...
Page 27 - English hero, a step indicating as much personal arrogance or weakness as scientific indelicacy ; for it must have been a prominent idea in the mind of that person that American naturalists would regard with surprise and reluctance the application of a British name, however meritoriously...
Page 25 - The latter can be measured four hundred and fifty feet from its head to its root(!). A large portion of this fallen monster is still to be seen and examined ; and by the measurement of Mr. Lapham, the proprietor of the place, it is said to be...
Page 183 - ... particular, without the aid of an engraver, designer, &c. ? Solution. — If the original be a plant, a flower, or an insect, a texture, or, in short, any lifeless object whatever, it is passed between a copper plate and a lead plate, through two rollers that are closely screwed together. The original, by means of the pressure, leaves its image impressed with all its peculiar delicacies — with its whole surface, as it were — on the lead plate.