 ... 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
 | 1896 - 844 pages
...renderinç it pervious to rains and the hbres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of all kinds into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth. . . . Worms probably provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1900 - 412 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, which is a fine manure for grain and grass.' Gardeners and farmers hated the worm in his... | |
 | 1900 - 898 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." There... | |
 | 1882 - 816 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." After... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 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... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - 1908 - 808 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 tine manure for grain and grass.' character,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 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... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 270 pages
...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 probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the ram washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 280 pages
...numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for gram and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the ram washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth... | |
 | 1914 - 588 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibers 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... | |
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