 | Gilbert White - 1861 - 528 pages
...think, worms eat their green corn. But these men would find, that the earth without worms would soou become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation...sterile : and, besides, in favour of worms, it should bo hinted, that green corn, plants and flowers are not so much injured by them as by many species of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers, arc not so much injured liy them as by many species of coleoptera (scarabs), and tipulae (long-legs),... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, George Johnston - 1865 - 446 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work ; and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently sterilej." This species deposits its eggs in capsules at a considerable depth in the soil. They are... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1868 - 228 pages
...walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their groen corn. But these men would find that the earth without worms would soon become cold, bard-bound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile : and besides, in favour of worms,... | |
 | 1869 - 542 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work ; and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." Mr. Darwin maintains a similar theory, and in an elaborate paper read before the Geological Society,... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - 408 pages
...make them much work ; and the latter, because (as they think) worms eat their green corn. But those men would find that the earth without worms would...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. Besides, in favour of worms it should be hinted, that green corn, plants, and flowers are not so much... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...they render the walks unsightly, and make them much work ; and the latter, because they imagine that worms eat their green corn. But these men would find...and void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile. It should also be observed, that green corn, plants, and flowers, are not so much injured by worms,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...and besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...hardbound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently steril : and besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers,... | |
 | 1878 - 740 pages
...grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, when the rain washes the earth away . . . Earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." 2. FROSTS. — In temperate zones, frost is a deadly enemy to vegetation in several forms. In the matter... | |
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... provide new soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ; the former because they render their walks unsightly,... 
