 | 1806 - 604 pagine
...Re'cberebes sur VUsage ties Feuillct dans Us Plantes. much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but having attentively examined at...possess the power to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves, and the points of their shoots to the light, and their tendrils in any direction to attach... | |
 | 1806 - 836 pagine
...written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but, having attentively examined at least 20,OOO trees of this species, many of which had grown in...possess the power to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves and the points of their shoots to the light, and their tendrils in any direction to attach themselves... | |
 | 1807 - 532 pagine
...about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but having-Sttentively examined at least 20,000 trees of this species, many...and never having •found a single tree possessing a tap-root, I must be allowed to doubt that one ever existed. As trees possess the power to turn the... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1807 - 528 pagine
...written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but "having attentively examined at least 20iOOO trees of this species, many of which had grown in...and never having found a single tree possessing a tap-root, I must be allowed to doubt that one ever existed. As trees possess the power to turn the... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Knight - 1841 - 410 pagine
...the tree. The tap root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception; but having attentively examined at least...possess the power to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves, and the points of their shoots to the light, and their tendrils in any direction to attach... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Knight - 1841 - 406 pagine
...the tree. The tap root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly bo adduced as an exception ; but having attentively examined at...possess the power to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves, and the points of their shoots to the light, and their tendrils in any direction to attach... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1808 - 1408 pagine
...the tree. The tap root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but having attentively examined at...possess the power to> turn the upper surfaces of their leaves, and the points of their shoots to the light, and their tendrils ii any .direction tu attach... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1808 - 1122 pagine
...the tree. The tap root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception ; but having attentively examined at...deepest and most favourable soils of England, and never hirving found a single tree possessing a tap root, I must be allowed to doubt that one ever existed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1808 - 1408 pagine
...root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an ex. ception ; but having attentively examined at least 20,000 trees...single tree possessing a tap root, I must be allowed to daubt that one ever existed. As trees possess the power to turn the upper surfaces of their leaves,... | |
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... moisture to the plant, whilst young, is thus deprived of proper nutriment, and, ceasing almost wholly to grow, becomes of no importance to the tree. The tap root of the oak, about which so much has been written, will possibly be adduced as an exception;... 