 | 1866 - 808 pages
...previously, and planted with Scotch fir. The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the beath was most remarkable, — more than is generally seen...another ; not only the proportional numbers of the heath plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and i: ,ii ices)... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 pages
...previously and planted with Scotch fir. The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable — more than is generally seen...another ; not only the proportional numbers of the heath plants were wholly changed, but tirelvc species of plants (not counting grasses and sedges) flourished... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...and planted witlu Scotch .fix.. The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in...one quite different soil to another : not only the proper tional numbers of the heath plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1865 - 581 pages
...passing from one quite different soil to another; not only the proportional numbers of the heath plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and sedges) flourished in the plantation which could not be found on the heath." * Had the author informed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...previously and planted with Scotch fir. The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in...another: not only the proportional numbers of the heath -plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and carices)... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 pages
...passing from one quite different soil to another : not only the proportional numbers of the heath plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants...greater, for six insectivorous birds were very common in me plantations, which were not to be seen on the heath ; and the heath was frequented by two or three... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...planted with Scotch fir. The change in tht ll /( native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in...species of plants (not counting grasses and carices) nourished in the plantations, which could not be found on the heath. The effect on the insects must... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1873 - 506 pages
...the heath was most remarkable. " Not only the proportional numbers of the heath plants were whollv changed, but twelve species of plants, not counting grasses and carices, flourished iu the plantations which could not bo found on the heath." This sort of change was pointedly referred... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 pages
...and planted with Scotch fir. The change in the native vegetation lif the planted part of the heath was most remarkable — more than is generally seen...twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and sedges) flourished in the plantation which could not he found on the heath." * Had the author informed... | |
 | 1883 - 314 pages
...and planted with Scotch fir. " The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in...very common in the plantations, which were not to be seen on the heath ; and the heath was frequented by two or three distinct insectivorous birds. Here... | |
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... there was a large and extremely barren heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years previously and planted with Scotch fir. The change in the native... 
