The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Band 3

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Longman, Rees, Orome, Brown and Green, Paternoster-Row and and A. and C. Black, Edinburgh, 1828
 

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Seite 451 - It is emollient and mucilaginous in all its parts. The leaves dried and reduced to powder constitute Lalo, a favourite article with the Africans, which they mix daily with their food, for the purpose of diminishing the excessive perspiration to which they are subject in those climates ; and even Europeans find it serviceable in cases of diarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. The fruit is, perhaps, the most useful part of the tree. Its pulp is slightly acid and agreeable, and frequently eaten ; while...
Seite 97 - ... undertake to clear a farm, the means of subsistence are at once secured : should his habits unfit him for such an undertaking, the price of labour is so high, that he is sure of lucrative employment in whatever capacity he chooses to enter the service of a master. So far the prospects of the emigrant are encouraging and agreeable. But let us turn for a moment to the other side of the picture. Let us contemplate the exile seeking the portion allotted to him in the wilds of the forest, with the...
Seite 186 - Besides this, there is a greater risk of explosion in a hot-house steamboiler than in that of a steam-engine; for steam-engines generally have persons properly instructed to manage them, but gardeners or their assistants cannot be so competent. " The heating with hot water has none of the objections I have mentioned as belonging to flues and steam.
Seite 446 - March, from seven o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the evening...
Seite 442 - the Pine-apple, in its wild state, is found near the sea-shore ; the sand accumulated there in downs serving for its growth, as well as for that of most of the species of the same family. The place where the best Pine-apples are cultivated is of a similar nature. In the sandy plains of Praya velha and Praya grande, formed by the receding of the sea, and in which no other plant will thrive, are the spots where the Pine-apple grows best.
Seite 450 - Such trunks are then hollowed into chambers, and within them are suspended the dead bodies of those to whom are refused the honour of burial. There they become mummies, perfectly dry and well preserved, without further preparation or embalming, and are known by the name of Guiriots.
Seite 186 - ... pits. Brick flues, from the numerous joints, and the mortar cracking, are subject to give out at times a sulphurous gas, which is injurious to plants ; and even with two fireplaces in a house forty or fifty feet long, it is impossible to keep up an equal temperature in the whole length ; the houses get over-heated in the neighbourhood of the fire-place, and it is difficult to keep up a proper temperature at the extremities of the flues. Steam may do very well on a large scale, and when there...
Seite 200 - Botanic painter, say, that while he was drawing this plant, the smell or effluvia rendered him so giddy, that he was several times obliged to quit the room, and walk out in the fresh air to recover himself ; but recollecting at last what might probably be the cause of his repeated illness, he opened the door and windows of the room, and the free air then enabled him to finish his work without any more returns of his giddiness.
Seite 133 - ... been observed to be absorbed by them; yet it is one of their chief constituents, and is readily absorbed in any combination which renders it fluid. Roots, then, obtain such nourishment to plants from a soil as is in a gaseous or liquid state; we may next, therefore, consider what constituents of soils are capable of being presented in such forms. Water can be the only solvent employed; indeed, so essential is this liquid itself that no plant can exist where it is entirely absent, and on the other...
Seite 213 - ... rose, three willows, a raspberry, and a pear ; several plants discovered by him are so remarkable as to constitute themselves new genera. Among the latter may be mentioned one which has been called Amherstia, in compliment to the Lady Amherst. This constitutes probably the most beautiful and noble plant of the Indian Flora. Two trees of it only are known to exist, and these are found in the gardens of a monastery on the banks of the Salwen. The number of specimens brought to Calcutta amount to...

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