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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 13

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 13

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 13 by United States Congress Senate

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 13
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Author: United States Congress Senate
Number of Pages: 692 pages
Published Date: 14 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781234130336
File size: 38 Mb
Download Link: The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 13
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...most valuable for the dessert, and so hardy as not to require the warmth and shelter of walls, and consequently capable of being cultivated by every farmer and cottager in the country. His seedling plums, strawberries, nectarines, and potatoes are also of great value, and an important addition to the luxuries and necessaries of life. The great object of this distinguished man seems to have been in all cases utility. It was chiefly to questions which he thought likely to lead to important practical results that his attention was directed, and the numerous papers communicated by him to the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, in the chair of which he succeeded his friend Sir Joseph Banks, have all this distinguishing feature. No one who has traced the progress of horticultural skill for the last twenty or thirty years can be ignorant that it is mainly due to the writings and practice of Mr. Knight; he was probably the best practical gardener of his day. It is however not a little remarkable that with so very extensive a knowledge of the facts of vegetable physiology, he should have been so unfortunate as he certainly was in many of his explanations of them. This arose no doubt from his unacquaintance with vegetable anatomy, and consequently with the minute means by which Nature brings about her results in organised matter. Mr. Knight's experiments were not confined to vegetable physiology. He was a close observer of the habits of animals, and one of his last communications to the Royal Society was on the subject of animal instinct. At a late period of his life he also made some attempts to improve the breed of draught horses, by crossing the large London dray-horse with the strong and compact"Norwegian P.C., No. 819. mare, the...

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