10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOOSEBERRY STONE»
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Vol. III. - Caclyciflorae
Fruit resembling a common gooseberry. Stone Gooseberry. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 8 R
. um'rs'LLuu (Michx. fl. bor. amer. l. p. 4-79.) spinules nearly axillary; branches
beset with a few short bristly hairs; leaves small, semi-trifid ; lobes few-toothed; ...
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A General History of the Dichleamydeous Plants ... Arranged ...
Fruit resembling a common gooseberry. Stone Gooseberry. Shrub 8 to 4- feet. 8
R. HIRTE'LLUM (Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 479.) spinules nearly axillary; branches
beset with a few short bristly hairs; leaves small, semi-trifid; lobes few-toothed; ...
3
A General System of Gardening and Botany: Founded Upon ...
Fruit resembling a common gooseberry. Stone Gooseberry. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 8 R
. hirte'llum (Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 479.) spinules nearly axillary ; branches
beset with a few short bristly hairs ; leaves small, semi-trifid ; lobes few-toothed ...
George Don, Philip Miller, 1834
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Rock Roles: Facts, Properties, and Lore of Gemstones
Garnet is sometimes called the “Gooseberry Stone” due to its resemblance to
gooseberries. It is also colloquially known as “African Jade,” and makes a good
substitute for Jade in color and workability. (It is seldom faceted; it works better as
...
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Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and ...
A Garnet resembling Essonite in composition, but of green colour, is known as
Grossularza, or “ Gooseberry Stone." It is found chiefly in Siberia. ESSONITE.
Chemical Composition :— Silica 40 Alumina 23 Lime 32 Iron protoxide, &c.
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
... whitish, greenish, the different lines being so mixed in spots as to give the
stone the aspect of a breccia, or conglomerate, and to justify its local name of '
gooseberry stone.' It is in places a nearly pure carbonate of lime in massive beds,
but it ...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of ...
... whitish, greenish, the different lines being so mixed in spots as to give the
stone the aspect of a breccia, or conglomerate, and to justify its local name of '
gooseberry stone.' It is in places a nearly pure carbonate of lime in massive beds,
but it ...
Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge, 1840
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The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
... the clays, and partake of the same colours, reddish, whitish, greenish, the
different lines being so mixed in spots as to give the stone the aspect of a breccia,
or conglomerate, and to justify its local name of ' gooseberry stone.' It is in places
a ...
Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, George Long, 1840
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Manual of geology: practical and theoretical
In Caermarthenshire, it is particularly remarkable in the cliffs near Laugharne,
from which specimens may be obtained not distinguishable from the ' gooseberry'
stone of Monmouth. Comparing these enormous masses of conglomeritic ...
10
Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, with ...
Give the meaning and derivation of these words — beadle, burgess, Bradburn,
Copenhagen, dawn, Snowdon, farewell, frog, gooseberry, Stone- hengp, leasing,
shire, Wales. 2. From what languages are these words derived, and how?
Great Britain. Privy Council. Committee on Education, 1853
