10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULMIFEROUS»
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The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...
Culmiferous plants, having small leaves and few in number, depend mostly on
the soil for nourishment, and little on the air. During the ripening of the seed they
draw their nourishment from the soil, as the leaves, by this time being dry and ...
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The New and Complete American Encyclopedia: Or, Universal ...
A feed is that part of a plant which requires the must nourishment; and for that
nourishment a culmiferous plant must be indebted entirely to the foil. A
leguminous crop, on the contrary, when cut green for food, must be very gentle to
the ground.
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
Culmiferous plants having small leaves and few in number, depend mostly on the
(oil for nourishment, and little on the air. During the ripening of the feed they draw
their nourifh- fneortrom the soil ; as the leaves by this time, being dry and ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816
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The cabinet of arts, or, General instructor in arts, ...
But such plants, while young, are all leaves, and in that state draw their food
chiefly from the air ; hence it is, that when cut green for feeding cattle, a
culmiferous crop is far from being • robber. A liay crop, accordingly, even where it
consists ...
Hewson Clarke, John Dougall, 1817
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The cabinet of arts: or, General instructor in arts, ...
But such plants, while young, .are all leaves, and in that state draw their food
chiefly from the air ; hence it is, that when cut green for feeding cattle, a
culmiferous crop is far from being a robber. A hay crop, accordingly, even where
it consists ...
Hewson Clarke, John Dougall, 1817
But if leguminous plants be allowed to ripen the seeds, their effects on the ground
are still much less severe than of culmiferous crops in a similar condition. Other
remarkable circumstances distinguish those plants. All the seeds of culmiferous ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; or A dictionary of arts, sciences, ...
Dew falling on a culmiferous crop after the ground begins to harden, rests on the
surface, and is sucked up by the next sun. Dew that falls on a leguminous crop, is
shaded from the sun by the broad leaves, and sinks at leisure into the ground.
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
Dew falling on a the ground always in heart, and yet to draw out of it culmiferous
crop after the ground begins to harden, the greatest profit pofiible. Some plants
rob the soil, rests on the surface, and is sucked up by the next sun. others are ...
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, 1797
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
The difference therefore, with respect to the soil, between a culmiferous and
leguminous crop, is great. The latter, growing till cut down, keeps the ground in
constant motion, and leaves it to the plough loose and mellow. The former gives
over ...
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The Agricultural Magazine, Or, Farmers' Monthly Journal of ...
Writers on agriculture , have usually assigned three reasons why the culmiferous
plants, such as wheat, Oats, and barley are impoverishing crops, in. contradiction
to the leguminous plants, such , as beans, turnips, lentils, potatoes, &c. which ...
