Miller's Dictionary of Gardening, Botany, and Agriculture1834 |
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Acacia Amaranth Amaryllis annual axillary bark-stove tree beneath Bent Grass blunt branches bulbous-rooted perennial calyx Candolle Cape capsules clusters common earth common soil corolla cuttings in peaty cuttings in sandy D. C. Sp deciduous division in common downy East Indies evergreen flower-stalks flowers foot high foot-stalks fruit Garlic gland Grass greenhouse perennial greenhouse shrub hairy husks July and August June and July Jussieu Lamarck leaf-stalks leaf-stumps leaflets leaves egg-oblong leaves line-like leaves oblong Linnĉus lobes Loddiges Milfoil Mimosa Mulberry-leaf native offsets in common offsets in rich orna ornamental pairs of leafits panicle peaty loam petals plants propagated by cuttings propagated by division propagated by offsets propagated by seed rich mould roundish sandy loam sandy peat saw-toothed seed in common six feet high six inches high smooth spikes Spreng Sprengel stalks stamens stem stove perennial stove shrub taper-pointed three feet high toothed umbels velvety Willdenow yellow
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Page 97 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Page 98 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 109 - ... raised in every part of this realm ; which things thus used be principally to the high displeasure of Almighty God, to the decay of the hospitality of this realm, to the diminishing of the king's people, and to the let of the...
Page 96 - The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Page 96 - And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
Page 97 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Page 97 - And on all hills that shall be. digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns : but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Page 109 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands, as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial, sheep, putting such lands as they can get to pasture...
Page 109 - ... sheep, putting such lands as they can get to pasture, and not to tillage ; Whereby they have not only pulled down churches and towns, and enhanced the old rates of the...
Page 109 - Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass all other. And so much are our wools to be preferred before those of Milesia and other places that if Jason had known the value of them that are bred and to be had in Britain he would never have gone to Colchis to look for any there.