 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...manure for grain and grass.* Worms probably provide new * The important agency of worms in pastures, in forming mould, by bringing to the surface the finer... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass." Respiration, both in the Leech and in the Earth-worm, is carried on by means of pores and internal... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 pages
...rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.t Worms pro* The following interesting account of the earth-worm was communicated to me by ail... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.f Worms pro* The following interesting account of the earth-worm was communicated to me by au... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 pages
...rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers...manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably,... | |
 | John Fleming - 1859 - 262 pages
...pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1861 - 532 pages
...an excellent soil for many flowers, inch as carnations, pinks, &c. — ED. bnbly provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth...slopes, probably, to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and fanners express their detestation of worms ;* the former, because they render their walks unsightly,... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it : and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers...excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass." The opinions thus advanced by the Rev. Gilbert White, as to the importance and utility of earth-worms,... | |
 | Charles R. Baker - 1866 - 532 pages
...plants, by drawing straws, and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; they also throw up an infinite number of lumps of earth, called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grass and grain. Worms also probably provide new soil for hills and slopes when the rain has washed... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1867 - 672 pages
...pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks and leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps, called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for... | |
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... worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation., which would proceed but lamely without them ; by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and... 
