 | Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - 1815 - Liczba stron: 452
...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 - Liczba stron: 1494
...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 - Liczba stron: 1250
...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 - Liczba stron: 1252
...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 - Liczba stron: 488
...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 - Liczba stron: 906
...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 - Liczba stron: 298
...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 - Liczba stron: 416
...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 - Liczba stron: 1326
...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 - Liczba stron: 784
...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... 
