| 1891 - 906 páginas
...upon the Atlantic coast, and are so inferior in economic value that, as Professor Gray has said, " a passable wagon wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon." But California has, at the present time, no birch, beech, elm, holly, gum-tree, magnolia, catalpa,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 622 páginas
...these and the ashes are of so inferior economical value, that (as we are told) a passable waggon-wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon." Prof. Gray then illustrates graphically by diagrams, which we here reproduce, this poverty of the western... | |
| 1878 - 322 páginas
...these and the ashes are of so inferior economical ralue that (as we are told) a passable wagonwheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon." He then states that, whereas the Atlantic forests contain sixty-six genera and one hundred and fifty-five... | |
| Asa Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker - 1880 - 86 páginas
...these and the Ashes are of so inferior economical value that (as we are told) a passable wagon-wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good...which cannot fail to strike the eye more impressively thau when we say that, whereas the Atlantic forest is composed of 66 genera and 155 species, the Pacific... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1882 - 686 páginas
...these and the Ashes are of so inferior economical value that (as we are told) a passable wagon-wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good...genera and 155 species, the Pacific forest has only 31 genera and 78 species. " In the appended diagrams the short side of the rectangle is proportional... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1882 - 680 páginas
...these and the Ashes are of so inferior economical value that (as we are told) a passable wagon-wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good...whereas the Atlantic forest is composed of 66 genera and 15f> species, the Pacific forest has only 31 genera and 78 species. * In the appended diagrams the... | |
| 1882 - 660 páginas
...these and the Ashes are of so interior economical value that (as we are told) a passable wagon-wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good...fail to strike the eye more impressively than when we MV that, whereas the Atlantic forest is composed of 66 genera and 155 species, the Pacific forest has... | |
| Albert Kellogg - 1882 - 156 páginas
...the best combined qualities; yet people from abroad are wont to report that "a passable wagon wneei cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon." Reechoed assertions like these are, among those hasty conclusions, we hope to show, not warranted by... | |
| California. Legislature - 1883 - 497 páginas
...mechanical uses require the best combined qualities ; yet people from abroad are wont to report that " a passable wagon wheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon." Reechoed assertions like these are, among those hasty conclusions, we hope to show, not warranted by... | |
| Asa Gray - 1889 - 520 páginas
...these and the Ashes are of so inferior economical value, that (as we are told) a passable wagonwheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good...say that, whereas the Atlantic forest is composed of sixty-six genera and one hundred and fifty-five species, the Pacific forest has only thirtyone genera... | |
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