 Prontenex, the owner stated that for years they followed the same order of succession at both epochs : those which were first to leaf were also the earliest to lose their leaves. A Chestnut in the gardens of the Tuileries from its habit of early leafing...  On Buds and Stipules - Pagina 233de Sir John Lubbock - 1899 - 239 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1904 - 790 pagini
...that man comes within the sweep of these profound and inviolate biological laws ; but it explains why nature — 'so careless of the single life, so careful of the type' — is so lavish with the human beads, and so haphazard in their manufacture, spoiling hundreds, leaving... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1899 - 280 pagini
...their leaves early. Four are common to A and D : leaf early but fall late. Two, Walnut and Gleditschia ferox, occur in both B and C, having an early fall,...promise of spring and the glorious pageant of summer. s hj DEVELOPMENT Oi! BUHS. Westj.Newina.ii lith 1TEV.EI OPMF.NT OF BUD S. ~ Ci DEVELOPMENT 0V BUDS.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1899 - 966 pagini
...spring, you will be amply rewarded. You will often be reminded of Tennyson's profound remark abont Nature : "So careless of the single life, So careful of the type she seems," and you will, I am sure, be more and more struck with wonder and admiration at the variety and beauty of... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1904 - 78 pagini
...that man comes within the sweep of these profound and inviolate biological laws, but it explains why nature — so careless of the single life, so careful of the type — is so lavish with the human beads, and so haphazard in their manufacture, spoiling hundreds, leaving... | |
 | 1918 - 664 pagini
...supremely precious, how comes it that it should be so differently valued in the State? It has been said of Nature, " So careless of the single life, so careful of the type, she seems." Docs civilisation invert the principle and make us, while reverent of the single life, indifferent... | |
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