I have not in mind, at present, the revelations respecting the creation of the earth and of vegetable and animal life; but rather the revelations which speak of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Can the naturalist find out and comprehend the secret of the endless variety of life in the vegetable and animal kingdoms?
Similar compounds may possibly be made by experimentalists in the vegetableand mineral kingdoms, but the original elements remain the same.
Side by side with the above mentioned facts are others that sustain, it is claimed, the idea of common origin; and suggest an explanation of how the varieties of animal and vegetable forms were brought into existence.
And do you admit the great distinctions of animal and vegetable natures?
No doubt, sir; we do cultivate our tails, but it is on the vegetable principle, or as the skilful gardener lops the branch that it may throw out more vigorous shoots.
Thus is it shown that land (all vegetable matter being no more than fungi of the earth) is a.
For many months after leaving Amsterdam we sailed south, touching at some islands to obtain vegetable food and replenish our water-casks.
It was the number of the vegetablein which Mr. Chittenden's ring had been hidden, and it made her start violently.
The dissection and examination of vegetable forms, however exhaustive, is but an analysis of effects.
The relation of the nature spirit to the consciousness functioning through the vegetable kingdom generally is an interesting study too, for the twain appear quite separate.
They are the thought-forms of the Great Beings, or angels, who are in charge of the evolution of the vegetable kingdom.
The life which is now animating them has come up through grasses and cereals, such as wheat and oats, when it was in the vegetable kingdom, afterwards through ants and bees when it was in the animal kingdom.
Food: Food habit studies have shown that great crested flycatchers eat 94 percent animal and 6 percent vegetable material.
Food: The diet of the black-capped chickadee is comprised of 70 percent animal and 30 percent vegetable matter.
Food: The diet is about 75 percent animal and 25 percent vegetable material.
Food: The diet of the golden-fronted woodpecker consists of both insects and vegetable matter.
Mast, chiefly from coniferous trees, and fruits of bayberry, blackberry, blueberry, and poison ivy make up the bulk of the vegetable matter.
Food: There is little information on the food of these birds, but apparently both animal and vegetable matter are included in the diet.
Most of the animal food taken is ants, and most of the vegetable material is cambium.
More varied crops are being grown, and vegetable by-products are being economically looked after.
He wore clothes made of vegetable fibre, and ate only vegetable food.
The chief source is of course the remains of vegetable and animal tissue.
It is not, of course, only the vegetable or organic matter in a soil that decays, but also the mineral matter.
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.
A good example of the absorptive capacity of a soil containing a large quantity of vegetable matter is furnished by peat-bogs, which, sponge-like, can absorb enormous quantities of water.
The sources of the nitrogen of the ocean are the nitrates which it receives from the drainage of land, animal andvegetable matter, sewage, &c.
It is true that, since it is composed ofvegetable matter, it contains all the necessary plant ingredients.
While this is so, they show a preference for soils rich in decayed vegetable matter.
That it should prove a valuable manure is scarcely to be wondered at, as it is originally formed from vegetable substance, and as it therefore contains all the elements present in the plant itself.
Unlike the nitrogen of the surface-soil, that in the subsoil seems to be of very ancient origin, being probably derived from the remains of animal and vegetable life in the mud deposited at the bottom of the ocean.
As a considerable interval often elapses between the periods of rainfall, soils, if they are to support vegetable growth, must be able to store up their water-supply against periods of drought.
The presence of acidity in a soil is hurtful to vegetable life.
Baskett, in his valuable "Story of the Birds," says that the warbler forms feed variously, but they use little vegetable matter.
Both animal and vegetable foods supply the mineral substances which are essential to body growth and development.
Later on they used to save out for her any particularly choice vegetable they might have.
In 1802 he began to deliver, at the request of the Board of Agriculture, a course of lectures, "On the Connection of Chemistry with Vegetable Physiology.
Suppose a vegetable organism impregnated with a germ (a potato, for instance) is planted below the surface of the ground, in damp soil, under a temperature sufficient for vegetation.
In the case of fungi and other plants that grow in the dark, they derive the power and the pabulum from surrounding vegetable matter in process of decay, or in that of evolving power.
His first experiments were the effects of acids and alkalies on vegetable colors, the kind of air in the vesicles of common seaweed, and the solution and precipitation of metals.
At sunrise this vegetable spring is the richest: then the negroes and the natives come from all sides, provided with large vessels to collect the milk, which turns yellow and thickens on the surface.
In the vegetable section, which is also very large, there is not always quite so much care displayed or so much cleanliness enforced, refuse being sometimes allowed to accumulate liberally.
It is said that nowhere on the continent is so great a variety of vegetable growth presented in one locality, as is here to be seen in the full perfection of lusty growth.
The management of this important vegetablewe give in the words of the author.
There is one small vegetable and fruit market, but the cattle, beef, and fish markets, are miserable.
Nearly every kind of European vegetable production is to be met with here, to which may be added the sweet potato and yam.
Deeming that a large import of drugs and sugar caused a ruinous drain of specie, he sent experts hither and thither through the country to encourage the domestic production of these staples as well as of vegetable wax.
Another feature of the time was the cultivation of the sweet potato at the suggestion of Aoki Konyo, who saw in this vegetable a unique provision against famine.
But, after all, the hugest pleasure is reserved until these vegetable children of ours are smoking on the table, and we, like Saturn, make a meal of them.
But I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.
And beholding vegetable juice flow from his wound, the Rishi began to dance with wonder-expanded eyes.
Thus it is the sun himself, who, drenched by the lunar influence, is transformed, upon the sprouting of seeds, into holy vegetable furnished with the six tastes.
Dost thou not behold, O Brahmana, that vegetable juice floweth from the wound in my hand?
O king, it hath been heard by us that in days of old Mankanaka having cut his hand with the pointed blade of the Kusa grass, there flowed from his wound vegetable juice (instead of blood).
Some other vegetablefoods are also cooked and eaten by the Igorot.
All is salted down in an olla and tightly covered over with a vegetable leaf or a piece of cloth.
As it is worn on the back, the man appears to be wearing a cape made of hanging vegetable threads.
Kay-yub', a vegetable root, is rubbed over the forehead in cases of headache.
Na-wit' maintains and the Igorot believe that the vegetable springs up without planting.
He boils the expressed juice of the sugar cane about six hours, at which time he puts into it a handful of vegetable ferment obtained from a tree called "tub-fig'.
After the clay is mixed it is manipulated in small handfuls, between the thumb and fingers, in order that all stones and coarse pieces of vegetable matter may be removed.
The soil is sandy silt with a considerable admixture of vegetable matter.
Igorot it will be considered in the following sections first, after which data of other vegetable products will be given.
It is said that in some sections of Igorot land dry vegetable matter is burned so that ash may be had for fertilizing purposes.
This vegetable ferment is gathered from the tree as a flower or young fruit; it is dried and stored in the dwelling for future use.
In general, surface waters are more likely to be contaminated by vegetable and animal matter and to require purification for drinking purposes.
Bacterial action is an important factor in the earlier stages, in the partial decay of vegetable matter to form peat; accumulation of waste products from this action, however, appears to inhibit further bacterial activity.
The so-called pitch consists of a mixture of bitumen, water, mineral and vegetable matter, the whole inflated with gas, which escapes to some extent and keeps the mass in a state of constant ebullition.
Grasses, trees, and other plants growing in swamps and bogs decay and form a vegetablemold in the nature of peat.
The only important international trade in this commodity consists of exports from the United States to various countries for treating mineral oils, and exports from England for treating vegetable oils.
The source of the nitrogen was probably organic matter in the soil, such as former deposits of bird guano, bones (which are actually found in the same desert basin), and ancient vegetable matter.
Without moisture the vegetable material would completely oxidize, leaving practically no residue, as it does in dry climates.
Near the surface underground waters may carry bacteria, as well as animal and vegetable refuse, which from a sanitary standpoint are usually objectionable.
In time these surface accumulations of vegetable material may subside and be buried under clay, sand, or other rock materials.
Overhead a pencil of sunshine could be seen from time to time, but rarely, for the mighty forest trees interlaced their branches a hundred and fifty feet above his head, and the air was heavy with the moist odour of vegetable decay.
The seeds of plants (which are vegetable eggs) actually exist in the ovaries of flowers before the fertilization of these ovaries.
He restricts the term "fossils" tovegetable and animal remains, since the word in his time was by some loosely applied to minerals as well as fossils; to anything dug out of the earth.
This latter is caused by a vegetable parasite that invades the skin and eats it away.
Also, they have caught a new form of gari-gari, a sort of vegetable poisoning like poison oak or poison ivy.
