Garden Companion and Florists' GuideW.S. Orr and Company, 1852 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alpine apex appearance autumn axils base bearing beautiful beds bipinnate bloom blossoms Botanical bracts branches buds Calceolaria calyx caudiciform cells Chrysanthemum colour compost corolla cultivation deep dwarf Elevation epiphyte erect evergreen exhibited feet high Ferns fertile Flower Garden flowers foliage Fronds GARDEN PLANTS Gastrolobium genus glabrous glaucous green greenhouse ground growing growth habit hairy hardy Hooker hybrids inches long introduced kinds Klotzsch lanceolate leaves Lindley loam lobes manure margin Messrs native nearly Nursery oblong obtuse Orchid Orchidaceae Orchidaceae Orchid ornamental ornamental plant ovate panicle Paxton's Flower peat pedicels peduncles Pelargoniums petals petioles pinnæ pinnate pinnules pots pretty produced purple racemes rachis remarkable rhizome Rhododendron rich roots rose season seeds segments sepals sessile shoots showy shrub Sikkim slender soil species specimen spore-cases spores stamens stems sterile stove epiphyte surface terminal trees upper variegated variety vegetable Veitch wood yellow
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Página 16 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página 52 - The seeds yield about eight per cent, of tallow, which sells for about five cents per pound. The process for pressing the oil, which is carried on at the same time, remains to be noticed. It is contained in the kernel of the nut — the sebaceous matter which lies between the shell and the husk having been removed in the manner described. The kernel, and the husk covering it, are ground between two stones, which are heated to prevent clogging from the sebaceous matter still adhering.
Página 52 - With an unimportant exception the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine. When the candles, which are made by dipping, are of the required diameter, they receive a final dip into a mixture of the same material and insectwax, by which their consistency is preserved in the hottest weather.
Página 52 - ... adapted for receiving wedges, which are successively driven into it by ponderous sledge-hammers wielded by athletic men. The tallow oozes, in a melted state, into a receptacle below, where it cools. It is again melted and poured into tubs smeared with mud to prevent its adhering. It is now marketable, in masses of about eighty pounds each, hard, brittle, white, opaque, tasteless, and without the odor of animal tallow.
Página 5 - ... nutriment, and even for its indispensable wants and vital existence. The experiment has reference to the healthy life of fish preserved in a limited and confined portion of water. It was commenced in May 1849, and the subjects chosen were two small gold-fish. These were placed in a large glass receiver of about twelve gallons...
Página 52 - Artificial illumination in China is generally procured by vegetable oils ; but candles are also employed by those who can afford it, and for lanterns. In religious ceremonies no other material is used. As no one ventures out after dark without a lantern, and as the gods cannot be acceptably worshipped without candles, the quantity, consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine.
Página 18 - ovules ' of the other families, we can hardly help extending the same views to them, in which case we should have the remarkable phenomenon of a compound organism, in which a new individual, forming a second generation developed after a process of fertilization, remains attached organically to its parent, from which it differs totally in all anatomical and physiological characters.
Página 52 - The capsules are gently pounded in a mortar, to loosen the seeds from their shells, from which they are separated by sifting. To facilitate th,e separation of the white, sebaceous matter enveloping the seeds, they are steamed in tubs having convex open wicker bottoms, placed over caldrons of boiling water.
Página 6 - The slimy snail, finding its proper nutriment in the decomposing vegetable matter, prevents its accumulation by removal from the field, and by its vital powers, converts what would otherwise act as a poison, into a rich and fruitful nutriment, again to constitute a pabulum for the vegetable growth, whilst it also acts the important part of a purveyor to its finny neighbor.
Página 6 - ... of Matlock, and sandstone ; these were arranged so that the fish could get below them, if they wished so to do. At the same time that the fish were placed in this miniature pond...