 | Gardening - 1830 - 802 pages
...Bonpland, who found it growing on the banks of the river Machangara, near Quito, at the altitude of 8910ft. above the level of the sea; so that there can be no...sufficiently hardy to endure our winters, if planted about 0 in. deep in a warm border in a sheltered situation; a rich loamy soil, that is very sandy, will be... | |
 | Agriculture - 1830 - 780 pages
...Bonpland, who found it growing on the banks of the river Machangara, near Quito, at the altitude of 8910ft. above the level of the sea ; so that there can be...sufficiently hardy to endure our winters, if planted about 6 in. deep in a warm border in a sheltered situation ; a rich loamy soil, that is very sandy, will... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 632 pages
...Bonpland, who found it growing on the banks of the river Machangara, near Quito, at the altitude of 8910 feet above the level of the sea, so that there can be no doubt but it is sufficiently hardy to endure our winters. It should be planted about six inches deep in a warm border,... | |
 | 1862 - 476 pages
...devoid of projecting points, etc., it was ascertained that this limit is at least one thousand Swedish feet above the level of the sea; so that there can be no glacier formation at a lower altitude. Another experiment of much interest was also made with reference... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1862 - 446 pages
...devoid of projecting points, etc., it was ascertained that this limit is at least one thousand Swedish feet above the level of the sea ; so that there can be no glacier formation at a lower altitude. Another experiment of much interest was also made with reference... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1862 - 448 pages
...devoid of projecting points, etc., it was ascertained that this limit is at least one thousand Swedish feet above the level of the sea ; so that there can be no glacier formation at a lower altitude. Another experiment of much interest was also made with reference... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1865 - 458 pages
...devoid of projecting points, etc., it was ascertained that this limit is at least one thousand Swedish feet above the level of the sea ; so that there can be no glacier formation at a lower altitude. Another experiment of much interest was also made with reference... | |
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... supposed that the limit of eternal snow reached down nearly to the surface of the sea in the northern part of Spitzbergen ; but from observations made on a range of rounded and uniform mountains, devoid of projecting points, etc., it was ascertained... 