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... flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount- ing to about three hundred acres out of the four hundred . The rest is pasture , meadow , wood , or waste , including roads and paths . I may ...
... flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount- ing to about three hundred acres out of the four hundred . The rest is pasture , meadow , wood , or waste , including roads and paths . I may ...
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... flowers . But he employs a more regular and important agency for the spread and cultivation of those plants , which are especially destined for the support of man and of those creatures which subserve to his wants ; -even the mind and ...
... flowers . But he employs a more regular and important agency for the spread and cultivation of those plants , which are especially destined for the support of man and of those creatures which subserve to his wants ; -even the mind and ...
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... flowers of this plant appear , they are gathered by hand , in the morning , before they open ; a part of the flower is afterwards picked out ; this being subjected to heat and pressure , forms a cake , which is the drug that bears the ...
... flowers of this plant appear , they are gathered by hand , in the morning , before they open ; a part of the flower is afterwards picked out ; this being subjected to heat and pressure , forms a cake , which is the drug that bears the ...
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... flower - buds of this plant , which are the hops of commerce , our barley wine , or ale , would be unpalatable and a quick- ly - spoiling drink ; so that , unless some substi- tute for hops were used of old , we need not envy our ...
... flower - buds of this plant , which are the hops of commerce , our barley wine , or ale , would be unpalatable and a quick- ly - spoiling drink ; so that , unless some substi- tute for hops were used of old , we need not envy our ...
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... flowers . It might easily be passed by , as a weed of worthless form , by un- informed persons . There is , however , scarcely a plant that grows , excepting those essential for food , which ranks with this for importance . It forms the ...
... flowers . It might easily be passed by , as a weed of worthless form , by un- informed persons . There is , however , scarcely a plant that grows , excepting those essential for food , which ranks with this for importance . It forms the ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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