 Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first stamped on any species by Nature ; but all know that this tendency does exist, and in a most remarkable degree in many species. There...  The Farmer's Magazine - Page 351839Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 586 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barnyard fowl are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domes ticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without,... | |
 | George Lindley - 1831 - 648 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits arc a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without,... | |
 | George Lindley - Fruit-culture - 1831 - 674 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without,... | |
 | William Robert Prince, William Prince - Fruit - 1831 - 236 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a parallel casein the vegetable world. " Without,... | |
 | George Lindley - 1831 - 662 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. Without,... | |
 | Gardening - 1831 - 780 pages
...acquiring new or improved varieties of fruit, or in increasing their good qualities when acquired. . . . There is in all beings a disposition to deviate from...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. " Cultivators... | |
 | Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...acquiring new or improved varieties of fruit, or in increasing their good qualities when acquired. . . . There is in all beings a disposition to deviate from...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. "... | |
 | William Robert Prince - Fruit - 1832 - 430 pages
...operate down to very modern times. Philosophers are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...instance, the dog, the pigeon, and the barn-yard fowl, arc cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals; and domesticated fruits are a... | |
 | 1833 - 494 pages
...know that this tendency does exist, and in a most remarkable degree in many species. There is, _in all beings, a disposition to deviate from their original...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals ; and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world. "... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Espaliers - 1839 - 528 pages
...the worse. " Philosophers," says Mr. Lindley, " are unacquainted with the reason why there should be any tendency to variation from the characters first...barn-yard fowl, are cases in which this tendency is most strongly marked in animals, and domesticated fruits are a parallel case in the vegetable world." "... | |
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