 | 1836 - 422 pages
...gives his authority to the statement:—" I had often," he says, " in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...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 of the atmosphere,... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...gives his authority to the statement :—" I had often," he says, " in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...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 of the atmosphere,... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...produced *^" radiation, Dr. Wells makes the following curious state:—' I had often, 1 he says, ' in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by tra-- dcncrs to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared ; • me impossible that a thin mat,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...the doctrines of latent heat. 'I had often,' says Dr. Wells, 'smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...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 of the... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1845 - 456 pages
...candidly remarks upon this anticipation of science: " I had often, in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...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 of the atmosphere,... | |
 | john murray - 1845 - 722 pages
...most beneficial, to the farmer. “I had often,” says Dr. Wells, “in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the tempe.. nature of the... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1847 - 132 pages
...the force of radiation. The method usually adopted is thus noticed by Dr. "Wells :— " I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | Josiah Parkes - 1848 - 96 pages
...most beneficial, to. the farmer. " I had often," says Dr. Wells, " in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...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 of the... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1851 - 502 pages
...from Dr. Wells on Dew is highly instructive :— " I had often smiled, in the pride of half-knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...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 of the... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1853 - 930 pages
...intercept the view of the sky, and thus prevent radiation with its mischievous consequences. " I had often," says Dr. Wells, " in the pride of half knowledge,...plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere,... | |
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