 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 páginas
...in preparing the ground for cultivation. By periodically exposing the mould to the air, by sifting it so that no stones larger than the particles which they can swallow are left in it, and by mingling the whole intimately together, they do the very work which a gardener would prescribe... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1883 - 362 páginas
...that many monoliths and some old walls have fallen down from having been undermined by worms. Worms prepare the ground in an excellent manner for the...air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the partides which they can swallow are left in it. They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 130 páginas
...that many monoliths and some old walls haver fallen down from having been undermined by worms. Worms prepare the ground in an excellent manner for the...air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the particleswhich they can swallow are left in it. They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 348 páginas
...excellent manner for the growth of fibrous-rooted plants and for seedlings of all kinds. They peiiodically expose the mould to the air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the partides which they can swallow are left in it They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener... | |
 | 1891 - 296 páginas
...been the subject of a well known work by DA.BWIN', who has shown how they periodically turn over and expose the mould to the air and sift it so that no stones larger than the particles they can swallow are left there. Bones, remains of insects, twigs, &c. are buried by them ; the leaves... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 348 páginas
...peiiodically expose the mould to the air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the parSTANFORC; tides which they can swallow are left in it. They mingle...together, like a gardener who prepares fine soil for liis choicest plants. In this state it is well fitted to retain moisture and to absorb all soluble... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 350 páginas
...excellent manner for the growth of fibrous-rooted plants and for seedlings of all kinds. They peiiodically expose the mould to the air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the partides which they can swallow are left in it They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1897 - 346 páginas
...They peiiodically expose the mould to the air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the partides which they* can swallow are left in it They mingle...together, like a gardener who prepares fine soil for his rhoicest plants. In this state it is well fitted to retain moisture and to absorb all soluble eiibsiances,... | |
 | 1906 - 670 páginas
...tiles, to aid their gizzards in crushing and grinding the earth which they so largely consume. Worms prepare the ground in an excellent manner for the...sift it so that no stones larger than the particles they can swallow are left in it. They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener who prepares... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 384 páginas
...annually passes through their bodies, and is brought to the surface, on each acre of land. . . . Worms prepare the ground in an excellent manner for the...gardener who prepares fine soil for his choicest plants. . . . The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions ; but long before... | |
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They periodically expose the mould to the air, and sift it so that no stones larger than the partides which they can swallow are left in it. They mingle the whole intimately together, like a gardener who prepares fine soil for his choicest plants. In... 
