 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pages
...Pinaster ; commencing on the side next the sea, or on that from which the wind generally prevails, and sowing in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the wind ; the first-sown zone being protected by a line of hurdles, this zone protecting the second, the second the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 680 pages
...Pinaster ; commencing on the side next the sea, or on that from which the wind generally prevails, and sowing in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the wind ; the first-sown zone being protected by a line of hurdles, this zone protecting the second, the second the... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...; commencing on the side ext the sea, or on that from which the wind generally prevails, and owing in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the >'ind; the first-sown zone being protected by a line of hurdles, this one protecting the second, the... | |
 | The Westminster Review January-April 1841 - 1841 - 582 pages
...Finns Pinaster; commencing on the side next the sea, or on that from which the wind generally prevails, and sowing in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the wind; the first-sown zone being protected by a line of hurdles, this zone protecting the second, the second the... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...the pinaster; commencing on the side next the sea, or on that from vhich the wind generally prevails, and sowing in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the vind ; the first sown zone being protected by a line of lurdles, this zone protecting the second, the... | |
 | 1864 - 618 pages
...the eye but a monotonous repetition of white wavy hillocks perfectly destitute of vegetation. When violent storms of wind occurred, the surface of these...various ingenious modes, such as hurdles and thatching, The stone pine has not made equal progress. Its native lands being Spain, Italy, and Greece, it requires... | |
 | 1865 - 388 pages
...side next the sea, or on that from which the wind generally prevailed, and sowing in narrow zones, an a direction at right angles to that of the wind. The...ingenious modes, such as hurdles and thatching, and he had at last the gratification, after conquering many difficulties, of seeing his first zones firmly... | |
 | 1866 - 374 pages
...gradually rose among the crops, as if they were inundated with water, and the herbage and the topa of trees appeared quite green and healthy, even to...ingenious modes, such as hurdles and thatching, and he had at last the gratification, after conquering many diïïL'ulties, of seeing his first zones firmly... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1878 - 194 pages
...sea — or on that from which the wind generally prevailed, and sowing in narrow zones in directions at right angles to that of the wind. The first zone...ingenious modes, such as hurdles and thatching, and he had at last the gratification, after conquering many difficulties, of seeing his first zones firmly... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1880 - 456 pages
...next the sea, or from the quarter from whence the wind most commonly prevailed ; the sowing being done in narrow zones, in a direction at right angles to that of the wind, the first sown zone being shielded by a line of hurdles, this zone protecting the second, the second the third,... | |
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... green and healthy, even to the moment of their being submerged. On this moving and shifting sea M. Bremontier sowed seeds of the common broom, mixed with those of the pinaster; commencing on the side next the sea, or on that from which the wind generally... 