Annals of Botany, Volume 1

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Charles Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (joint ed.)
R. Taylor and Company, 1806
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Page 396 - ... celery and parsley of Europe,) and it is in some parts of the country called Apio. Its stalk generally divides from the upper part of the root into several stems, thickly beset with large orbicular leaves, gashed into several sinuses, and supported by large tubular leaf-stalks, exceeding a goose-quill in thickness. The roots immediately divide into four or five > branches ; and each of these, if the soil be light and the weather be favourable, will grow to the size, and nearly the shape, of a...
Page 397 - Arracacha, they are of full as universal use as the potatoes are in England. The cultivation of the Arracacha requires a deep black mould, that will easily yield to the descent of its large vertical roots. The mode of propagating it is to cut the root into pieces, each having an eye or shoot, and to plant these in separate holes. After three or four months, the roots are of sufficient size and quantity to be used for culinary purposes ; but if suffered to remain...
Page 397 - ... in England. The cultivation of the Arracacha requires a deep black mould, that will easily yield to the descent of its large vertical roots. The mode of propagating it is to cut the root into pieces, each having an eye or shoot, and to plant these in separate holes. After three or four months, the roots are of sufficient size and quantity to be used for culinary purposes ; but if suffered to remain for six months in the ground, they will often acquire an immense size, without any detriment to...
Page 397 - ... not thrive in the hotter regions of the kingdom ; for there the roots will not acquire any size, but throw up a greater number of stems ; or, at best, they will be small and of indifferent flavour. In the countries which are there called temperate, being less hot than those at the foot of the Cordilleras, this vegetable is sometimes found to thrive, but never so well as in the elevated regions of those mountains, where the medium heat is between 58 and 60 deg. of Fahrenheit's scale. Here it is...
Page 54 - M»» de C*** sur la botanique, et sur quelques sujets de physique et d'histoire naturelle, suivies d'une méthode élémentaire de botanique; Strasbourg, 1802, 2 vol.
Page 397 - Like the potatoe, the Arracacha does not thrive in the hotter regions of the kingdom ; for there the roots will not acquire any size, but throw up a greater number of stems ; or, at best, they will be small and of indifferent flavour.
Page 396 - Of its fécula are made starch and a variety of pastry work : reduced to a pulp, this root enters into the composition of certain fermented liquors, supposed to be very proper to restore the lost tone of the stomach. In the city of Santa...
Page 58 - Flore Parisienne ou description des caractères de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement aux environs de Paris , distribuées suivant la méthode du Jardin des...
Page 62 - Delineations of exotick plants cultivated in the royal garden at Kew. Drawn and coloured and the botanical characters displayed according to the Linnean system.
Page 59 - Histoire des carex ou laiches, contenant la description et les figures coloriées de toutes les espèces connues et d'un grand nombre d'espèces nouvelles ; traduite de l'allemand et augmentée par C.-F. Delavigne. A Leipzig, 1802, jn-4, portrait de l'auteur et 54 planches gravées et coloriées, cart.

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