 For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and...  Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy ... - Page 486by William Bingley - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 268 pages
...entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them ; by boring, perforating, and loosening...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1897 - 196 pages
...worms seem 'to be the great promoters of vegetation,' which would proceed but lamely without them, by1 boring, perforating, and loosening /the soil, and...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them ; by boring, perforating, and loosening...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... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1900 - 412 pages
...in natural history.' ' Vegetation would proceed but lamely without it, so great are its services in boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering...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
...Harrington he remarks: " Worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening...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... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1902 - 308 pages
...in natural history." "Vegetation would proceed but lamely without it, so great are its services in boring, perforating, and loosening the 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... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely withoftt them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil,...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
...seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without of Selborne 185 them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil,...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
...lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For . . . worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation ... by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and...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,... | |
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