History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History; and Relation to Art, Science, and Commerce, Volym 1Henry Colburn and Company, 1822 - 430 sidor |
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Sida 52
... heat and cold have the same effect in producing corn . Thracia is , he says , ex- ceedingly cold , and thereby plentiful in corn : Egypt and other parts of Africa are hot , and yet abound in corn , although not so copiously . We know ...
... heat and cold have the same effect in producing corn . Thracia is , he says , ex- ceedingly cold , and thereby plentiful in corn : Egypt and other parts of Africa are hot , and yet abound in corn , although not so copiously . We know ...
Sida 57
... heating as wheat , and that it has a little abs- tersive , or cleansing quality . The ladies , in old times , mixed the meal of this corn with honey and vinegar , to take away freckles and other spots on the flesh . Dr. James says ...
... heating as wheat , and that it has a little abs- tersive , or cleansing quality . The ladies , in old times , mixed the meal of this corn with honey and vinegar , to take away freckles and other spots on the flesh . Dr. James says ...
Sida 114
... heat , produced flowers and fruit every year . This has been termed a real curiosity , and should induce the inhabitants of the warmer parts of Devonshire , Sussex , and Kent , to cultivate the caper bush , where they have chalk - pits ...
... heat , produced flowers and fruit every year . This has been termed a real curiosity , and should induce the inhabitants of the warmer parts of Devonshire , Sussex , and Kent , to cultivate the caper bush , where they have chalk - pits ...
Sida 117
... heat , dissipate , and attenuate ; and acidity , by which they inspissate , and prove astringent . ' We have procured four new species of this plant from the West Indies ; but , as these na- turally require the stove , we can only ...
... heat , dissipate , and attenuate ; and acidity , by which they inspissate , and prove astringent . ' We have procured four new species of this plant from the West Indies ; but , as these na- turally require the stove , we can only ...
Sida 118
... heat of its fruit ; some take it from capsa , a chest . This herbaceous plant was brought to Europe by the Spaniards , and we have ac- counts of its being cultivated in this country as early as the reign of Edward the Sixth , although ...
... heat of its fruit ; some take it from capsa , a chest . This herbaceous plant was brought to Europe by the Spaniards , and we have ac- counts of its being cultivated in this country as early as the reign of Edward the Sixth , although ...
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History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal ... Henry Phillips Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal ... Henry Phillips Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
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Sida 202 - ... where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Sida 194 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and. brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26. And all the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Sida 249 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Sida 299 - And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of II spikenard very precious ; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Sida vii - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas; Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!
Sida 270 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 17 - ... be admirable. Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel, [at Kew] brother to the Earl of Essex : it is an old timber-house ; but his garden has the choicest fruit of any plantation in England, as he is the most industrious and understanding in it.
Sida 65 - The latent rill, scarce oozing through the grass, Of growth luxuriant; or the humid bank, In fair profusion, decks. Long let us walk, Where the breeze blows from yon extended field Of blossom'd beans. Arabia cannot boast A fuller gale of joy than, liberal, thence Breathes through the sense, and takes the ravish'd soul.
Sida 194 - And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
Sida 337 - And pierc'd with pity, hastens her relief. A branch of healing dittany she brought, Which in the Cretan fields with care she sought...