Outlines of the Geography of Plants: With Particular Enquiries Concerning the Native Country, the Culture, and the Uses of the Principal Cultivated Plants on which the Prosperity of Nations is Based, 7호Ray society, 1846 - 422페이지 |
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Abietinæ Acacia caven according Africa alpine plants altitude amongst appear arborescent arctic zone ascend beautiful belong branches bushes Canary Isles Cels character chiefly Chili China climate coast colder colour Coniferæ Cordilleras covered cultivated culture dicotyledonous dicotyledonous trees Ephedra equator equatorial zone Erica extend extremely families feet Ferns flora flowers foliage forests forms of plants fruit genera genus grasses greater number ground heat height Holland Humboldt India kingdom latitude leaves lichens limit of perpetual luxuriant maize Martius masses mean temperature Monocotyledones mountains nature northern hemisphere number of species observations Old World palm Pandanus parasites peculiar perpetual snow Peru phragmites physiognomy places plain plants Plantæ quantity region Reise remarkable resemblance Rhododendrons root Schouw Scitamineæ shrubby singular soil South America south of Europe South Sea Islands southern stems sub-tropical zone temperate zone thick tion toises torrid zone tracts tropical countries trunks vegetation vine warmer whole woods
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4 페이지 - If we now look over this immense variety of plants, we shall find that nature, under similar conditions of climate, has always produced similar, often even the same, forms. The naturalists, Banks and Solander, as well as the two Forsters, who accompanied Cook in his voyages round the world, and Sparmann, were not a little surprised when they found, in the region of Cape Horn, a vegetation similar to that of our northern zone. If we examine the vegetation of the plains from the extreme north to the...
321 페이지 - ... (Artocarpus incisa F.). The Bread-fruit is one of the most important plants to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, and alone is sufficient to furnish an agreeable and highly nutritious food, on which man can support himself. The native country of this useful tree is very extensive, but lies in the torrid zone only. On the islands of the Indian Archipelago and the island-groups in the South Sea which lie within the tropics, the bread-fruit is found. It has, however, never been observed in the...
352 페이지 - Luc^on, one of the Philippines, Meyen found in every corner of the house a little box or dish in which are kept the betel rolls (buyos)} prepared for the day's consumption ; and a buyo is there offered to every one who enters, just as a pinch of snuff or a pipe is with us. " Travellers, and those who work in the open air, carry the buyos for the day in little boxes or bags, as the Peruvians do their coca. The preparation of the betel falls on the female members of the family, who, during the forenoon,...
303 페이지 - ... bread. We do not know the exact polar limits of maize culture in the New World, yet so much is certain, that they lie in the 40th parallel ; even in the southern hemisphere, where, particularly in Chili, from many causes the climate is much * See Meyen's Reise, ii.
303 페이지 - Europe maize is grown in 45J north latitude : on the Rhine to 49°, and in our country even in 52°. Large and abundant crops are raised in gardens, yet with us there is little taste for this fine grain, and therefore its culture is neglected. Maize is only grown to adorn our gardens, and the rich produce is given to cattle in Germany. Maize is most extensively cultivated in the rich valley of the Rhine, known by the name of the Bergstrasse, but this district is also the warmest in all Germany.
177 페이지 - Relation d'un Voyage Botanique en Egypte, dans les trois Arables, en Palestine et en Syrie ' (Ann. des Sc. Nat. i. 72), says : ' Le mont Sainte Catherine est au sud-sud-ouest du mont Sinai. Dans les deserts qui environnent ces montagnes j'ai trouve Capparis spinosa,
294 페이지 - ... raising and transporting the produce of this important cereal. It is, that although wheat is very productive and of excellent quality in Chili and the republic of Rio de la Plata, and immense quantities are sent to Peru and even around Cape Horn to Rio Janeiro, yet North American flour is sold at the market of Valparaiso, and the bakers are obliged to buy it, as it is cheaper than the flour made in the country, because there are no roads in the interior, and wages are exceedingly high from want...
304 페이지 - Simmonds' states that it is raised in tropical countries at a height of 9000 feet and more. Professor Duges sent, in 1888, to the Cambridge Botanical Garden, Boston, several maize plants, which he collected at Moro Leon, otherwise Congregacion, near Uriangato, four Mexican leagues...
308 페이지 - ... corn-fields. On good soil this plant attains the height of three or four feet, and bears an immense quantity of seeds, which, unfortunately, for a long time feed an innumerable flock of birds, like sparrows, for this plant has the disadvantage that all its seeds do not ripen at the same time. The...
57 페이지 - ... the economy of the surrounding district. Indeed the people of that country would live in great wretchedness if nature had not bestowed on it these plants, for it lies far above the limit of trees, and only a few bushes grow in its neighbourhood.