 ... worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and...  Amphibious animals - Page 526by William Bingley - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...soil, and rendering it pen-ions to rains and the fibres of plants; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass '. Worms... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass *. Worms... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 pages
...and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of Jumps of earth, called worm-casts. * The earth-worm has been long considered a viviparous animal, but... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 348 pages
...throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth, called wormcasts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably...soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the %arth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid "being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws, and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth, called wormcasts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called wormcasts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.* Worms... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass." Respiration,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 pages
...the fibres of plants, by drawing into it straws and the stalks of leaves ; and chiefly by throwing infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grass and corn. They are, however, very injurious to plants in pots. THE LEECH (Hirudo medicinalis)... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth, called worm-casts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.f Worms... | |
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