| Richard Bradley - Gardening - 1739 - 708 pages
...in their Flowers or Seed-Veffeh : For Example, the Carnation and Sweet William are in fome refpects alike ; the Farina of the one will impregnate the...from either, as may now be feen in the Garden of Mr. 'Thomas Faircbild of Hoxton, a Plant neither Sweet William nor Carnation, but refembling both equally,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...BOTANY. The carnation and sweet-william being somewhat alike in their parts, particularly their flowers, the farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the seed so enlivened will produce a plant differing from both. This furnishes a hint for altering the properties... | |
| Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) - Botany - 1900 - 370 pages
...in their flowers or seed vessels; for example, the Carnation and Sweet William are in some respects alike : the farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the seed so enlivened will produce a plant differing from either, as may now be seen in the garden of Mr. Thomas... | |
| Rebecca W. Bushnell - Gardening - 2003 - 220 pages
...their Flowers of Seed-Vessels; as for Example, the Carnation and Sweet William are in some respect alike, the Farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the Seed so enliven'd will produce a Plant differing from either, as may now be seen in the Garden of Mr. Thomas... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1899 - 686 pages
...in their Flowers or Seed vessels ; for example, the Carnation and Sweet William are in some respects alike, the Farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the Seed so enlivened will produce a Plant differing from either, as may now be seen in the garden of Mr. Thomas... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1899 - 682 pages
...in their Flowers or Seed vessels ; for example, the Carnation and Sweet William are in some respects alike, the Farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the Seed so enlivened will produce a Plant differing from either, as may now be seen in the garden of Mr. Thomas... | |
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