ISBN: 9780217723534

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... III. STRA WBERRIES. Side by side in our English hedgerows in early springtime there grow two sister plants, almost exactly alike in foliage, flower, and all other points except the fruit, but differing widely from one another in that solitary, and to us essential, particular. One of these plants is the wild strawberry, the other is the little three leaved, white potentilla. It is not often that a parent species and its more developed offspring survive together in the same district, but this is almost certainly the case with these two small English wayside flowers. Indeed, the similarity between them is so close that even the most unobservant passers-by have been greatly struck with it; and the common native English name of the white potentilla--'' barren strawberry''--bears witness to the striking character of the family likeness. Perhaps one ought rather to go a step further, and to say that, while the most unobservant have perceived the relationship, only the more observant have ever discovered the distinctness of the two plants. Nothing is more ordinary than to hear casual townsfolk exclaim that though there were lots of strawberry blossoms a little while ago in suchand-such a spot, there are no ripe strawberries to be seen now that the time has come for picking the fruit. In such cases, careful examination will generally show that the spot is really covered by white potentilla plants, whose little starry flowers were easily mistaken by the world at large for true strawberry blossom. Though there are some marked distinctive features even in the flower, to which I shall presently recur, it is in the fruit alone that the two plants really differ sufficiently to attract the attention of an unbotanical eye. But here the difference is one which touches humanity... Grant Allen, Books, History, Flowers and their pedigrees Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: D. Appleton and company in 1884 in 288 pages; Subjects: Botany; Wild flowers; Flowers; Gardening / Flowers / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Flowers & Plants; Nature / Flowers; Nature / Plants; Science / Life Sciences / Botany;<

ISBN: 9780217723534

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE ROMANCE OF A WAYSIDE WEED. You will not find many pleasanter or breezier walks in England than this open stretch of Claverton Down: certainly you will find very few with more varied interest of every conceivable sort for every cultivated mind. The air is fresh and laden from the brine of the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream; the clear wind is blowing straight from seaward, not keen and dry from the Eastern plains, but soft and pure from a thousand leagues of uninterrupted ocean; and the view over the broken dale of Avon, where it cuts its way in a veritable gorge through the high barrier of the Bath oolite, stretches for miles over one of the loveliest and greenest valleys in all our lovely green England. More than that-the whole history of Britain is visibly unfolded before my very eyes. That bald roundish hill to the right, with its smooth summit artificially levelled, and its sides planed down into a long glacis, is Little Solisbury; and Little Solisbury, as its name clearly shows, is the very oldest Bath of all. For it isthe bury or hill-fort of Solis, the ancient fortified town of the Keltic and Euskarian natives; and when, long ages afterwards, the Romans planted their station in the valley below, they naturally called the hot springs Fig. 13-Hairy Wood-spurge (Euphorbia pilosa). which they found there by the name of Aquae Solis; and equally naturally misinterpreted the second word (really a native term, Sulis) as the genitive of Sol, and accordingly dedicatedtheir great temple on the spotto Apollo. Those straight white lines and green- grown ridges on the flanks of Banagh Down and the eastern heights are the vestiges of the old Roman causeways-the Fosse and its branches-now totally disused or else degraded into modern cai t-roads; Books History~~General Flowers-And-Their-Pedigrees~~Grant-Allen General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: D. Appleton and company in 1884 in 288 pages; Subjects: Botany; Wild flowers; Flowers; Gardening / Flowers / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Flowers & Plants; Nature / Flowers; Nature / Plants; Science / Life Sciences / Botany;<

ISBN: 9780217723534

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE ROMANCE OF A WAYSIDE WEED. You will not find many pleasanter or breezier walks in England than this open stretch of Claverton Down: certainly you will find very few with more varied interest of every conceivable sort for every cultivated mind. The air is fresh and laden from the brine of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE ROMANCE OF A WAYSIDE WEED. You will not find many pleasanter or breezier walks in England than this open stretch of Claverton Down: certainly you will find very few with more varied interest of every conceivable sort for every cultivated mind. The air is fresh and laden from the brine of the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream; the clear wind is blowing straight from seaward, not keen and dry from the Eastern plains, but soft and pure from a thousand leagues of uninterrupted ocean; and the view over the broken dale of Avon, where it cuts its way in a veritable gorge through the high barrier of the Bath oolite, stretches for miles over one of the loveliest and greenest valleys in all our lovely green England. More than that-the whole history of Britain is visibly unfolded before my very eyes. That bald roundish hill to the right, with its smooth summit artificially levelled, and its sides planed down into a long glacis, is Little Solisbury; and Little Solisbury, as its name clearly shows, is the very oldest Bath of all. For it isthe bury or hill-fort of Solis, the ancient fortified town of the Keltic and Euskarian natives; and when, long ages afterwards, the Romans planted their station in the valley below, they naturally called the hot springs Fig. 13-Hairy Wood-spurge (Euphorbia pilosa). which they found there by the name of Aquae Solis; and equally naturally misinterpreted the second word (really a native term, Sulis) as the genitive of Sol, and accordingly dedicatedtheir great temple on the spotto Apollo. Those straight white lines and green- grown ridges on the flanks of Banagh Down and the eastern heights are the vestiges of the old Roman causeways-the Fosse and its branches-now totally disused or else degraded into modern cai t-roads; Books, History~~General, Flowers-And-Their-Pedigrees~~Grant-Allen, 999999999, Flowers And Their Pedigrees, Grant Allen, 0217723535, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217723534

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... III. STRA WBERRIES. Side by side in our English hedgerows in early springtime there grow two sister plants, almost exactly alike in foliage, flower, and all other points except the fruit, but differing widely from one another in that solitary, and to us essential, particular. One of these plants is the wild strawberry, the other is the little three leaved, white potentilla. It is not often that a parent species and its more developed offspring survive together in the same district, but this is almost certainly the case with these two small English wayside flowers. Indeed, the similarity between them is so close that even the most unobservant passers-by have been greatly struck with it; and the common native English name of the white potentilla--'' barren strawberry''--bears witness to the striking character of the family likeness. Perhaps one ought rather to go a step further, and to say that, while the most unobservant have perceived the relationship, only the more observant have ever discovered the distinctness of the two plants. Nothing is more ordinary than to hear casual townsfolk exclaim that though there were lots of strawberry blossoms a little while ago in suchand-such a spot, there are no ripe strawberries to be seen now that the time has come for picking the fruit. In such cases, careful examination will generally show that the spot is really covered by white potentilla plants, whose little starry flowers were easily mistaken by the world at large for true strawberry blossom. Though there are some marked distinctive features even in the flower, to which I shall presently recur, it is in the fruit alone that the two plants really differ sufficiently to attract the attention of an unbotanical eye. But here the difference is one which touches humanity... Grant Allen, Books, History, Flowers and their pedigrees Books>History, General Books LLC<