 | Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - 1815 - 452 Seiten
...atmosphere and unconnected with the soil; such are the houseleek,- and different species of the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves: and it is a beautiful circumstance in the ceconomy of nature, that aqueous vapour... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 Seiten
...atmosphere and unconnected with the soil ; such are the house-leek, and different species of the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves ; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that aqueous vapor... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 Seiten
...atmosphere and unconnected with the soil; such are the house-leek, and different species of the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves ; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that aqueous vapor... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 Seiten
...unconnected with the soil; such are the house-leek, and different species of the aloe. In veryintense heats, and when the soil is dry, the life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that aqueous vapor... | |
 | 1829 - 488 Seiten
...intense heats, when the soil is dry, the life of the plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature that the aqueous vapours are most abundant in the atmosphere, when it is most needed for the purj poses... | |
 | 1829 - 906 Seiten
...intense heats, when the soil is dry, the life of the plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that the aqueous vapours are most abundant in the atmosphere, whe'h they are most needed for the purposes... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 298 Seiten
...cause when suspended in the atmosphere and unconnected with the soil, as the house-leek and the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves." It follows from what has already been said, that, with an increasing heat of... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 416 Seiten
...cause when suspended in the atmosphere and unconnected with the soil, as the house-leek and the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves." It follows from what has already been said, that, with an increasing heat of... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 Seiten
...atmosphere and unconnected with the soil ; such are the house-leek, and dînèrent species of the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves ; and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that aqueous vapour... | |
 | 1836 - 784 Seiten
...atmosphere and unconnected with the soil ; such as the house leek, and different species of the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the...of nature, that aqueous vapour is most abundant in Ihe atmosphere, when it is most needed for the purposes of life ; and that, when other sources of its... | |
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... the aloe. In very intense heats, and when the soil is dry, the life of plants seems to be preserved by the absorbent power of their leaves : and it is a beautiful circumstance in the economy of nature, that aqueous vapour is most abundant in the atmosphere... 
