The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volumen14

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Hovey and Company, 1848
 

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Página 468 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Página 374 - STATED MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. The following gentlemen were elected members of the Academy : — Cecil Hobart Peabody, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 4.
Página 180 - ... females lay their eggs upon the top of their cocoons, and cover them with a large quantity of frothy matter, which, on drying, becomes white and brittle. Different broods of these insects appear at various times in the course of the summer, but the greater number come to maturity and lay their eggs in the latter part of August, and the beginning of September; and these eggs are not hatched till the following summer. The name of this moth is Orgyia* leucostigma, the white-marked Orgyia or tussock-moth.
Página 99 - In our science,' wrote Dr. JE Smith, in 1807 (Introduction to Botany), ' the names established throughout the works of Linnaeus are become current coin, nor can they be altered without great inconvenience. Perhaps, if he had foreseen the future authority and popularity of his writings, he might himself have improved upon many which he adopted out of deference to his predecessors, and it is in some cases to be regretted that he has not sufficiently done so.
Página 375 - An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the President in the chair.
Página 99 - I beg leave to offer a few reflections on changes of established names. It is generally agreed among mankind, that names of countries, places, or things, sanctioned by general use, should be sacred ; and the study of natural history is, from the multitude of objects with which it is conversant, necessarily so encumbered with names, that students require every possible assistance to facilitate the attainment of those names, and have a just right to complain of every needless impediment. The grateful...
Página 468 - Ib. lib. v. Be their number as it is, numberless millions and legions of millions, that is no part of my present inquiry ; Satan, the leader, guide, and superior, as he was author of the celestial rebellion, is still the great head and master-devil as before; and under his authority they still...
Página 415 - Hollyhock, with the view of converting the fibres of this plant into thread similar to that of hemp or flax. In the process of manufacture, it was discovered that the plant yields a fine blue dye, equal in beauty and permanence to the best indigo.
Página 263 - ... possible, avoiding severe frosts, and the most successful practice with our extensive orchardists is to place the good fruit directly, in a careful manner, in new, tight flour barrels as soon as gathered from the tree. These barrels should be gently shaken while filling, and the head closely pressed in ; they are then placed in a cool shady exposure under a shed open to the air, or on the north side of a building, protected by...
Página 275 - The kulit lawang of commerce is the aromatic bark of a wild species of cinnamon, and is produced in abundance.

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