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... plants are twice hand - weeded , and afterwards thinned , The expense attending this is considerable , but the value of the crop amply compensates it . In 1804 I had an acre and a rood , which had been pre- viously occupied by cabbages ...
... plants are twice hand - weeded , and afterwards thinned , The expense attending this is considerable , but the value of the crop amply compensates it . In 1804 I had an acre and a rood , which had been pre- viously occupied by cabbages ...
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... plants or weeds which afford the mineral alkali ; or fur- mitary , wormwood , heath , or other plants or weeds which afford the vegetable alkali ; and after slightly dry- ing the same , by exposure to the air , or by any other cheap and ...
... plants or weeds which afford the mineral alkali ; or fur- mitary , wormwood , heath , or other plants or weeds which afford the vegetable alkali ; and after slightly dry- ing the same , by exposure to the air , or by any other cheap and ...
Page 88
... plants during ex- posure to the air , and is carried off from time to time by the showers that fali , so that the plant or weed becomes exhausted previous to the combustion to which it is after- wards subjected . And I do farther ...
... plants during ex- posure to the air , and is carried off from time to time by the showers that fali , so that the plant or weed becomes exhausted previous to the combustion to which it is after- wards subjected . And I do farther ...
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... Plants , when their fruit begins to swell , is probably very old in this country : the name of the fruit bears testimony in favour of this conjecture , for the plant has no relation to straw in any other way , and no other European ...
... Plants , when their fruit begins to swell , is probably very old in this country : the name of the fruit bears testimony in favour of this conjecture , for the plant has no relation to straw in any other way , and no other European ...
Page 108
... plant that bears it . When Sir Joseph Banks came to Spring Grove , in 1779 , he found this practice in the garden ... plants , and of course requiring four rows of straw to be laid under them . The whole consists of 600 feet of beds , or ...
... plant that bears it . When Sir Joseph Banks came to Spring Grove , in 1779 , he found this practice in the garden ... plants , and of course requiring four rows of straw to be laid under them . The whole consists of 600 feet of beds , or ...
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Page 262 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 87 - Bullough, do hereby declare that the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained in...
Page 396 - I do make use of some one of the compounds of combustible. matter, such as sulphur, or sulphur and charcoal, with an oxy.muriatic salt; for example, the salt formed of dephlogisticated marine acid and potash (or...
Page 75 - ... habits and virtues. Neither can they omit to notice its favourable tendencies on the health and morals of a large and important class of the community. But while your committee thus freely recognize the merits and value of the domestic system, they at the same time feel it their duty to declare it as their decided opinion, that the apprehensions entertained of its being rooted out by the factory system, are, at present at least, wholly without foundation.
Page 76 - ... they make their fancy goods, and any articles of a newer, more costly, or more delicate quality, to which they are enabled by the domestic system to apply a much larger proportion of their capital. Thus, the two systems, instead of rivalling, are mutual aids to each other; each supplying the other's defects, and promoting the other's prosperity.
Page 345 - Chickweed. — When the flower expands boldly and fully, no rain will happen for four hours or upwards : if it continues in that open state, no rain will disturb the Summer's day : when it half conceals its miniature flower, the day is generally showery ; but if it entirely shuts up or veils the white flower with its green mantle, let...
Page 395 - for a method of discharging or giving fire to artillery, and all other fire-arms, mines, chambers, cavities, and places in which gunpowder, or other combustible matter is, or may be put, for the purpose of explosion.
Page 161 - To all to whom these presents shall come, &c.: — Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso. I, the said John Henry Cassell, do hereby declare that the nature of my invention, and the manner in which the same...
Page 74 - L continually continually accumulating weight of taxes, and with all the necessaries and comforts of life gradually increas-- ing in price, the effects of which on the wages of labour could not but be very considerable, our commerce and manufactures have also been increasing in such a degree as to surpass the most sanguine calculations of the ablest political writers who have speculated on the improvements of a future age.
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