 Greece ; further, the countries of the East, Persia, northern India, Arabia, Egypt, Nubia, Barbary, and the Canary Islands ; in these latter countries, however, the culture of maize or rice, towards the south, is always more considerable, and in some...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 1351825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Webster - 1855 - 678 pages
...is always more considerable ; and in some of them several kinds of Lorghum (Doura) and Poa Abyssmica come to be added. In both these regions of wheat, rye only occurs at considerable elevations ; oats, however, more seldom, and at last entirely disappear, barley affording... | |
 | John Lindley, John Torrey - 1831 - 486 pages
...towards the south, is always more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura) and Poa Abyssinica come to be added. In both these...the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the Old Continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequent, and rice is found to... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 538 pages
...towards the south, is always more considerable ; and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura), and Poa Abyssinica, come to be added. In both these regions of wheat, rye only occurs at considerable elevations ; oats, however, more seldom, and at last entirely disappear ; barley affording... | |
 | John Lindley - 1836 - 570 pages
...towards the south, is always more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura) and Poa Abyssinica come to be added. In both these...disappear ; barley affording food for horses and mules. of the Old Continent appears to, be in the manners and peculiarities of the people. In .North America,... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum, Doura, and Poa Abyssinica,* cometo be added. In both these regions of wheat, rye only...however, more seldom, and at last entirely disappear; barely affording food for horses and mules. In the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the Old Continent,... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1076 pages
...towards the south, is always more considerable, and in some of them several lands of sorghum (doura) and Poa Abyssinica come to be added. In both these...the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the Old Continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequent, and rice is found to... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1066 pages
...is always more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of sorghum (doura) and Poa Abyssiniea come to be added. In both these regions of wheat,...the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the Old Continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequcnt, and rice is found to... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1857 - 680 pages
...the region of wheat, rye only occurs at considerable elevations and oats still more seldom until both entirely disappear, barley affording food for horses and mules. In the eastern part of the temperate zone of the old continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are... | |
 | 1858 - 814 pages
...towards the south is always more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura) and Poa Abyssinica come to be added. In both these...the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the old continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequent, and rice is found to... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...is alwa\s more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura) and Poa Abyssinien come to be added. In both these regions of wheat,...the eastern parts of the temperate zone of the old continent, iu China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequeut, and rice is found to... | |
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