The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... tree with thorny branches ; fruit delicious to the taste , and exquisitely fragrant : seeds An æolipile of great antiquity , made of imbedded in an extremely tenacious trans- brass , was lately dug up in the site of the Ba- parent ...
... tree with thorny branches ; fruit delicious to the taste , and exquisitely fragrant : seeds An æolipile of great antiquity , made of imbedded in an extremely tenacious trans- brass , was lately dug up in the site of the Ba- parent ...
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... trees is in lawns and parks , where they may be planted singly , and where their fruit will be serviceable to the deer , who are fond of it . This tree is of quick growth ; and in a few years it will afford a good shade in summer , and ...
... trees is in lawns and parks , where they may be planted singly , and where their fruit will be serviceable to the deer , who are fond of it . This tree is of quick growth ; and in a few years it will afford a good shade in summer , and ...
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... tree in Madagascar , with an aromatic rufous bark . AGAVE , in botany , a genus of the Hex- andria Monogynia class and order , of the natural order of Coronariæ : it has no calyx ; the corolla is one - petalled and funnel - shaped ; the ...
... tree in Madagascar , with an aromatic rufous bark . AGAVE , in botany , a genus of the Hex- andria Monogynia class and order , of the natural order of Coronariæ : it has no calyx ; the corolla is one - petalled and funnel - shaped ; the ...
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... trees has been often very long protracted . The pear tree is of much longer duration than the apple . Both should be extirpated without reluc- tance , when their produce no longer com- pensates for the ground occupied by them . TIMBER TREes ...
... trees has been often very long protracted . The pear tree is of much longer duration than the apple . Both should be extirpated without reluc- tance , when their produce no longer com- pensates for the ground occupied by them . TIMBER TREes ...
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... trees in particular situations . Where the practice is thought judicious with a view to the melioration of the soil , the ... tree seeds should be put across the land in drills . Acorns and nuts must be dibbled , and the key berries scat ...
... trees in particular situations . Where the practice is thought judicious with a view to the melioration of the soil , the ... tree seeds should be put across the land in drills . Acorns and nuts must be dibbled , and the key berries scat ...
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