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" I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the... "
The young gardener's educator - Page 168
by William Keane (gardener.) - 1861
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 12

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...had often,' says Dr. Wells, p. 120, ' in tlie pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth...
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An Essay on Dew: And Several Appearances Connected with it

William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,...
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An Essay on Dew: And Several Appearances Connected with it

William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,...
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Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other on Dew

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 530 pages
...or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the...
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Two Essays: One, Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other, On Dew; A ...

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...

Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...heat. " 1 had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...

Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...« I had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth...
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An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, comprehending the theory and practice of ...

John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...corered with dew. •' I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the...
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An encyclopędia of agriculture

John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...cold. I had often, observes Dr. Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the...
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An Encyclopędia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the ...

John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...cold. I had often, observes Dr. Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from...alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I liad learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder...
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