 | 1854 - 534 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such ffimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature...alone I thought them liable to be injured ; but when I learnt that bodies on the surface of the earth become often colder than the air, by radiating their... | |
 | 1858 - 396 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." 1262. Dew forms in very different quantities, under the same circumstances, upon different materials;... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 374 pages
...tender plants from cold ; as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." Even a thin cambric handkerchief, or, as Patrick Wilson found, a piece of gauze, spread out and supported... | |
 | 1861 - 588 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 pages
...tender plants from cold ; as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature...for the practice which I had before deemed useless.' formed in each vessel. This is the explanation of Wells, and it is, no doubt, the true one. I think,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature...for the practice which I had before deemed useless.< dition most suitable for the formation of ice, is not only a clear air, but a dry air. The nights,... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pages
...tender plunta from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature...alone, I thought them liable to be injured. But when I learned that bodies, on the surface of the earth, become, during a still and serene night, colder than... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pages
...any snch flimsy substance could prevent their attaining the temperature of the atmosphere. Bat when I learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their beat to the heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice which I had before deemed... | |
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I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the... 
