 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1805 - 534 pages
...sand ; and its absorbent power was so small, that one-hundred parts lost only two by drying at 400 Fahrenheit. , Plants and trees, the roots of which...will vegetate to advantage in almost all common soils which are moderately dry, and which do not contain a. - very great excess of vegetable matter. . .... | |
 | 1805 - 534 pages
...sand ; and its absorbent power was so small, that one-hundred parts lost only two by drying at 400 Fahrenheit. Plants and trees, the roots of which are...will vegetate to advantage in almost all common soils •which are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. I found... | |
 | Friedrich Christian Accum - 1808 - 492 pages
...near the opening- of Hie river 1'arret into the British Channel: but, I am told, is never overflowed. Plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and...vegetate to advantage in almost all common soils, which are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. I found... | |
 | F. ACCUM - 1828 - 526 pages
...— Carbonate of lime 63 Silica 15 Alumina 11 Oxide ofiron 3 Vegetable and saline matter 5 Moisture 3 Plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and...will vegetate to advantage in almost all common soils which are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. I (Sir... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 614 pages
...siliceous sand; and its absorbent power was so small, that 100 parts lost only two by drying, at 400 Fahrenheit. Plants and trees, the roots of which are...of vegetable matter. The soil taken from a field at Sheffield Place, in Sussex, remarkable for producing flourishing oaks, was found to consist of six... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 594 pages
...siliceous sand ; and its absorbent power was so small, that 100 parts lost only two by drying, at 400 Fahrenheit. Plants and trees, the roots of which are...penetrating deep into the earth, will vegetate to advantage iu almost all common soils that are moderately dry, and do not contain a very great excess of vegetable... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...to certain laws, to which He had chosen to restrict Himself.' Dr. Prout's Brid. Treat, p. 178-9. f ' Plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and...almost all common soils that are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. I found the soil taken from a field at... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 pages
...to certain laws, to which He had chosen to restrict Himself.' Dr. Front's Brid. Treat, p. 178-9. * ' Plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and...almost all common soils that are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. I found the soil taken from a field at... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 pages
...absorbent power was so small, that one hundred parts lost only two by drying at four hundred degrees, Fahrenheit. Plants and trees, the roots of which are...vegetable matter. " The soil taken from a field at Sheffield Place, in Sussex, remarkable for producing flourishing oaks, was found to consist of six... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 470 pages
...fitly and adaptedly has the vegetable struc"j.'t been made for the earthy masses of our planet, that " plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and...deep into the earth, will vegetate to advantage in aln.ost all common soils that are moderately dry, and which do not contain a very great excess of vegetable... | |
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Fahrenheit. Plants and trees, the roots of which are fibrous and hard, and capable of penetrating deep into the earth, will vegetate to advantage in almost all common soils that are moderately dry, and do not contain a very great excess of vegetable matter. 
