 | Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - 1815 - 452 páginas
...freely permeable to the atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime and animal and vegetable matter are of great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity : sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | 1816 - 442 páginas
...freely permeable to the atmosphere. \Vith respect to this .quality, ear.* bonate of lime and animal and vegetable matter are of great use in soils : they give absorbent power to the soil, •without giving it likewise tenacity; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 páginas
...matter are of great ua» in soil* ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity ; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent power. " 1 have compnred the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and 1 have... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 páginas
...freely permeable to the atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime, and animal, and vegetable matter, are of great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity ; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 páginas
...atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime, and animal and vegetable matter, агсоГ great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity ; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 páginas
...freely permeable to tlife atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime, and animal and vegetable matter, are of great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity ; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 páginas
...freely permeable to the atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime, and animal and vegetable matter, are of great use in soils; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - 784 páginas
...air, and the vegetation on them is generally burnt up almost as readily as on sands. and animal and vegetable matter are of great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil without giving it likewise tenacity ; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1831 - 1330 páginas
...the atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime, and animal and vegetable matter, arc of great use in soils; they give absorbent power to the soil, without giving it likewise tenacity; sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 páginas
...freely permeable by the atmosphere. With respect to mis quality, carbonate of lime, and animal and vegetable matter, are of great use in soils ; they give absorbent power to the soil, without giving it likewise tenacity. Sand, which also destroys tenacity, on the contrary, gives little absorbent... | |
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... clay, and carbonate of lime, with some animal or vegetable matter ; and which are so loose and light as to be freely permeable to the atmosphere. With respect to this quality, carbonate of lime and animal and vegetable matter are of great use in soils... 
