 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...upon something in the internal structure of vegetables. Alpine plants do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmelted snow. And this is still more remarkable in the naturalization of plants from... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 416 pages
...the internal structure of vegetables. Alpine plants do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heatr but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmelted snow. And this is still more remarkable in the naturalization of plants from... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...something in the internal structure of vegetables. 1 Alpine plants do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmelted snow. And this is still more remarkable in the naturalization of plants from... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1836 - 566 pages
...structure. It is ; and I quote Mr. WHEWELL'S own words, in his Essay on Astronomy and General Physics : l " When we transplant our fruit-trees to the temperate...nourishment, and however acted on by a change of temperature. DECANDOLLE discovered, by a series of experiments, that some plants are more tenacious than others... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1836 - 562 pages
...fruit-trees to the temperate regions, south of the equator, they continue for some years to Hourish, at the periods which correspond with our spring :...blossom, that their flowers are seen amongst the yet immelted snow?" This shews, I repeat, that, independent of every other cause, there is a something... | |
 | 1843 - 822 pages
...efforts, in their nature of action, resemble tho,-ч: Alpine plants which do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmcltud snow. J- DORAN. HYMN. From thc German. FROM the recesses of a lowly spirit My... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...extinction. 411. The flowering of plants is subject to a law of periodicity and habit ; alpine plants do not wait for the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom that the flowers are seen among the yet unmelted snow. 41-2. Warmth and light, soil and moisture, may in... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...upon something in the internal structure of vegetables. Alpine plants do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmcltcd snow. And this is still more remarkable in the naturalization of plants from... | |
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Alpine plants do not wait for the stimulus of the sun's heat, but exert such a struggle to blossom, that their flowers are seen among the yet unmelted snow. 