The Student, and Intellectual Observer, Volume 1Groombridge and Sons, 1868 - Science |
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... remarkable for their uniform spiral arrangement round the axis of the stem , and forming tufts at the ends of the branches , which are arranged at the top of the tall , straight stem , or trunk , in some species , thus giving the plants ...
... remarkable for their uniform spiral arrangement round the axis of the stem , and forming tufts at the ends of the branches , which are arranged at the top of the tall , straight stem , or trunk , in some species , thus giving the plants ...
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... remarkable . The stem of this was straight as that of a fir - tree , and the branches horizontal with feathery tips of flag or short ribbon - formed leaves . The tree was frequently forty or fifty feet high , crowned with an upright ...
... remarkable . The stem of this was straight as that of a fir - tree , and the branches horizontal with feathery tips of flag or short ribbon - formed leaves . The tree was frequently forty or fifty feet high , crowned with an upright ...
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... accordingly the price has receded to a mere nothing . It is not a little remarkable that the employment of this jacket of a tropical animal should have a direct influence upon the value of one mainly confined to 18 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT .
... accordingly the price has receded to a mere nothing . It is not a little remarkable that the employment of this jacket of a tropical animal should have a direct influence upon the value of one mainly confined to 18 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT .
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... remarkable for their courage . In the Cimbric wars of Marius , about a century before Christ , we find both Teutons and Gauls accompanied to battle by their wives and families . In the great defeat of the Cimbri and Ambrones by that ...
... remarkable for their courage . In the Cimbric wars of Marius , about a century before Christ , we find both Teutons and Gauls accompanied to battle by their wives and families . In the great defeat of the Cimbri and Ambrones by that ...
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... remarkable chiefly for their excess of licentiousness and debauchery . This is the character which they bore when their example began to exercise an influence over the inhabitants of Western Europe , the people of Gaul and Britain . But ...
... remarkable chiefly for their excess of licentiousness and debauchery . This is the character which they bore when their example began to exercise an influence over the inhabitants of Western Europe , the people of Gaul and Britain . But ...
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Page 8 - According to their quality, more or less time is occupied in their completion : the coarser ones may be finished in two or three days, the finest take as many months. The best times for plaiting are the morning hours and the rainy season, when the air is moist: in the middle of the day and in dry clear weather, the straw is apt to break, which, when the hat is finished, is betrayed by knots, and much diminishes the value.
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Page 8 - straw,' previous to plaiting, has to go through several processes. The leaves are gathered before they unfold, all their ribs and coarser veins removed, and the rest, without being separated from the base of the leaf, is reduced to shreds. After having been put in the sun for a day, and tied into a knot, the straw is immersed in boiling water until it becomes white.
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