The Journal of a Naturalist ...Carey & Lea, 1831 - 286 pages |
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... gardener to the great Lord Burleigh . That the wych elm , when permitted , will attain large dimensions , is manifest by the size of several we have observed in many places ; but that gigantic one , which grew in Staffordshire , exceeds ...
... gardener to the great Lord Burleigh . That the wych elm , when permitted , will attain large dimensions , is manifest by the size of several we have observed in many places ; but that gigantic one , which grew in Staffordshire , exceeds ...
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... garden long since erased , where the good wife was the simple doctress of the village , when perhaps mortality was not more extensive than in these days of greater pretension and display . Modern practice yet retains preparations of ...
... garden long since erased , where the good wife was the simple doctress of the village , when perhaps mortality was not more extensive than in these days of greater pretension and display . Modern practice yet retains preparations of ...
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... garden can afford , till it presents a very bush of flowers , forms the appendage of their bosoms , and , with the gay knots in their hats , their best garments , and the sprightly hilarity of their looks , constitutes a pleasing ...
... garden can afford , till it presents a very bush of flowers , forms the appendage of their bosoms , and , with the gay knots in their hats , their best garments , and the sprightly hilarity of their looks , constitutes a pleasing ...
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... garden , and mixing with its congeners . It has not , perhaps , been generally observed , that the flowers of this plant , " bull - dogs , " as the boys call them , are per- fect insect traps ; multitudes of small creatures seek an ...
... garden , and mixing with its congeners . It has not , perhaps , been generally observed , that the flowers of this plant , " bull - dogs , " as the boys call them , are per- fect insect traps ; multitudes of small creatures seek an ...
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John Leonard Knapp. 62 THE DOGSBANE . But we have one plant in our gardens , a native of North America , than which none can be more cruelly destruc- tive of animal life , the dogsbane ( apocynum androsæ- mifolium ) , which is generally ...
John Leonard Knapp. 62 THE DOGSBANE . But we have one plant in our gardens , a native of North America , than which none can be more cruelly destruc- tive of animal life , the dogsbane ( apocynum androsæ- mifolium ) , which is generally ...
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Page 160 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 7 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Page 57 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 290 - Arts, the work will be exceedingly rich. Great attention was given to this in the German work, and the Editors have been anxious to render it, by the necessary additions, as perfect as possible. To gentlemen of the Bar, the work will be peculiarly valuable, as in cases where legal subjects are treated, an account is given of the provisions of Anieri-, can, English, French, Prussian, Austrian, and Civil Law.
Page 129 - ... as it is appointed the earliest of risers, it would commonly be famished. In the hot summer of 1825, many of the young brood of the season perished from want; the mornings were without dew, and consequently few or no worms were to be obtained ; and we found them dead under the trees, having expired on their roostings. It was particularly distressing, for no relief could be- given, to hear the constant clamor and importunity of the young for food.
Page 147 - We observed this summer two common thrushes frequenting the shrubs on the green in our garden. From the slenderness of their forms, and the freshness of their plumage, we pronounced them to be birds of the preceding summer. There was an association and friendship between them that called our attention to their actions ; one of them seemed ailing or feeble from some bodily accident, for, though it hopped about, yet it appeared unable to obtain a sufficiency of food.
Page 31 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 291 - The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as profit.