Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volume 18Charles Mason Hovey Hovey and Company, 1852 |
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Page 315 - But the most beautiful tree found in this district is a species of weeping cypress, which I had never met with in any other part of China, and which was quite new to me. It was during one of my daily rambles that I saw the first specimen. About half a mile distant from where I was I observed a noblelooking...
Page 179 - Gothic" is presented to them as the style suggested for their home. Excuse me now, if I speak a little scientifically. Gothic is an architectural classification of principles of erection now determined simply to mean pointed, in contradistinction to those principles which recognized rectangular lines as their fundamental basis ; thus classic architecture, as it is called, with its upright columns and pilasters, and its entablature and cornice resting on...
Page 315 - Fir tree, about 60 feet in height, having a stem as straight as the Norfolk Island Pine, and weeping branches like the Willow of St. Helena. Its branches grew at first at right angles to the main stem, then described a graceful curve upwards, and bent again at their points. From these main branches others long and slender hung down perpendicularly, and gave the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. It reminded me of some of those large and gorgeous chandeliers, sometimes seen in theatres and public...
Page 231 - ... its own green surface, a power of suction capable of opposing that of the leaves. At that time, liquid manure may be applied freely, and continued, from time to time, as long as the fruit is growing. Bat, at the first sign of ripening, or even earlier, it should be wholly withheld.
Page 398 - RED. Solution of Carmine in Supersulphate of Ammonia This gives a spectrum nearly in all respects similar to that given by the ruby glass (1.) ; all the rays above a line drawn through the centre of the space occupied by the orange being cut off. B. YELLOW. A saturated Solution of Bichromate of Potash This beautifully transparent solution admits the permeation of the red and yellow rays, which are extended over the space occupied by the orange ray in the unabsorbed spectrum. The green rays are scarcely...
Page 315 - On visiting some of the flower-shops in Shanghae, in the middle of January, I was surprised to find a great many flowers which had been forced into bloom and were now exposed for sale. I was not previously aware that the practice of forcing flowers was common in China. Many plants of Magnolia purpurea were in full flower; as were also many kinds of doubleblossomed peaches, the pretty little Primus sinensis alba, and a variety of camellias.
Page 19 - It will be observed that there is a cavity, c, between the boarding and walls. This, I believe, is an important circumstance, and so is the wooden lining, because air and wood are known to be slow conductors of heat. The ceiling on the north side is double, and the floor is wood above a ceiling. We may therefore conclude that a uniformity of temperature in the interior of the room is insured to a considerable extent.
Page 340 - Their reputation for fertility is extensively known, as well as their general character and chemical composition, but I am not aware that any extended and thorough examination of a suite of specimens, from known localities, has heretofore been made by any chemist. The first and perhaps the most interesting fact noticed in the examination of these soils was the remarkable degree of fineness of their constituent particles. In this respect I...
Page 398 - BLUE GLASS. — The spectrum obtained under this glass is perfect from the extreme limits of the most refrangible rays down to the yellow, which is wanting. The green ray is diminished, forming merely a well-defined line between the blue and the yellow rays. The orange and red rays are partially interrupted.
Page 443 - ... ranunculuses. The first appearance of germination took place with the tulips under the orange glass (3.), which was followed in three days by those under the red glass (2.), then by those under the ruby glass (1.), and next by those under the influence of the yellow (4.), blue (5.), and green glasses (6.). The roots under the orange glass developed the cotyledons a week earlier than those under the yellow, blue, and green glasses. But that the ranunculuses observed the same relative order in...