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... similar remark may be made as to our limestone rocks , to which incalculable multitudes of creatures that once had life have contributed their remains . When we turn our eyes to the animal and vegetable kingdoms , it might seem at the ...
... similar remark may be made as to our limestone rocks , to which incalculable multitudes of creatures that once had life have contributed their remains . When we turn our eyes to the animal and vegetable kingdoms , it might seem at the ...
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... similar situations , both in Switzer- land and elsewhere on the continent of Europe , different kinds of spelt are sown with great advan- tage . Their cultivation has scarcely been intro- duced into Britain , although it has been long ...
... similar situations , both in Switzer- land and elsewhere on the continent of Europe , different kinds of spelt are sown with great advan- tage . Their cultivation has scarcely been intro- duced into Britain , although it has been long ...
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... Similar effects have , however , been known to result from the use of other kinds of grain in bad condition , in which also some kind of minute fungus was probably present . In the Philosophical Transactions for 1762 , a most melancholy ...
... Similar effects have , however , been known to result from the use of other kinds of grain in bad condition , in which also some kind of minute fungus was probably present . In the Philosophical Transactions for 1762 , a most melancholy ...
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... similar to that of the common wild oat . There are two perfect florets in each spikelet . It is said that this was at one time the kind of oats chiefly cultivated in Scotland ; and until recently its cultivation has prevailed in some ...
... similar to that of the common wild oat . There are two perfect florets in each spikelet . It is said that this was at one time the kind of oats chiefly cultivated in Scotland ; and until recently its cultivation has prevailed in some ...
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... similar to the ordinary corn plants of Europe , more resembling oats , however , than any of the others . Its inflorescence is in the form of a panicle ; the spikelets are one - flowered ; the glumes small ; the paleæ nearly equal ...
... similar to the ordinary corn plants of Europe , more resembling oats , however , than any of the others . Its inflorescence is in the form of a panicle ; the spikelets are one - flowered ; the glumes small ; the paleæ nearly equal ...
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The Wealth of Nature: Our Food Supplies from the Vegetable Kingdom John Montgomery Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
The Wealth of Nature. Our Food Supplies From the Vegetable Kingdom John Montgomery Aucun aperçu disponible - 2023 |
The Wealth of Nature. Our Food Supplies from the Vegetable Kingdom John Montgomery Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |
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