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Example sentences for "vegetable growth"

  • In 1802 de Saussure wrote that it was unknown whether the constituents of many plants were due to the soils on which they grew, or whether they were the products of vegetable growth.

  • As near as can be ascertained, the amount of water applied to irrigated lands is scarcely anywhere less than the total precipitation during the season of vegetable growth, and in general it much exceeds that quantity.

  • Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.

  • The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

  • A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface.

  • Under the influence of sunshine, we have now seen these elements uniting into a mysterious bond, and the result is the formation of a cellular tissue, which possesses many of the functions of the noblest specimens of vegetable growth.

  • The first conditions of vegetable growth are, therefore, singularly similar to those which are found to prevail in the animal economy.

  • Vegetable growth is thus a cooling process; heat is withdrawn from use as heat, and is employed as force.

  • The summer's heat, employed in vegetable growth, reappears in the blazing billets of the kitchen fire.

  • That is, we have looked at each one of the elements separately, and considered its use in vegetable growth.

  • The more minute ingredients of the soil--those which enter into the construction of plants--exist in conditions which are more or less favorable or injurious to vegetable growth.


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