Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life : Comprising the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the Natural History Society, at the Museum, Torquay, in February, 1863, Opseg 2John Henry and James Parker, 1863 - Broj stranica: 144 |
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... wheat and other kinds of corn are obtained , because the summer tem- perature rises to the requisite point for ripening the seed , whilst in the north of Scotland , the Orkneys , and the Faroe Islands , although the mean temperature of ...
... wheat and other kinds of corn are obtained , because the summer tem- perature rises to the requisite point for ripening the seed , whilst in the north of Scotland , the Orkneys , and the Faroe Islands , although the mean temperature of ...
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... wheat and other grain ripen , inasmuch as the mean summer temperature rises nearly to 60 ° , none but the hardiest kind of barley will grow in the Hebrides , between the parallels of 56 ° and 58 ° ; and the trees are there reduced to a ...
... wheat and other grain ripen , inasmuch as the mean summer temperature rises nearly to 60 ° , none but the hardiest kind of barley will grow in the Hebrides , between the parallels of 56 ° and 58 ° ; and the trees are there reduced to a ...
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... Wheat - Barley - Rye - Oats- Potatoes - Native country of our common cereals - whether derived from other Grasses by natural selection . Comments upon Mr. Darwin's theory on that subject . HAVING in the two preceding Lectures pointed ...
... Wheat - Barley - Rye - Oats- Potatoes - Native country of our common cereals - whether derived from other Grasses by natural selection . Comments upon Mr. Darwin's theory on that subject . HAVING in the two preceding Lectures pointed ...
Stranica 88
... Wheat . The Banana seems to require a temperature of more than 68 ° Fahr . in order to ripen well its fruit . It , however , is cultivated with some success in a few of the very warmest localities of Europe , as for instance on the ...
... Wheat . The Banana seems to require a temperature of more than 68 ° Fahr . in order to ripen well its fruit . It , however , is cultivated with some success in a few of the very warmest localities of Europe , as for instance on the ...
Stranica 93
... , and in Hungary , where the heat is several de- grees inferior . Notwithstanding that rice cultivation seems to be circum- scribed within narrow limits by the joint conditions of high 94 Millet - Chesnuts - Wheat . [ LECT .
... , and in Hungary , where the heat is several de- grees inferior . Notwithstanding that rice cultivation seems to be circum- scribed within narrow limits by the joint conditions of high 94 Millet - Chesnuts - Wheat . [ LECT .
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