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Notices Respecting Jamaica, in 1808-1809-1810

Notices Respecting Jamaica, in 1808-1809-1810

Mathison, Gilbert Farquhar

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151726192
ISBN13: 9781151726193
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... which present a large surface of leaf to the atmosphere, absorbing atmospheric air in larger proportions, are found to deprive the land of its fertilizing matter in proportionably a less degree. Some plants, particularly such as grow upon rocky places, live almost entirely upon water and carbonic acid gas, or the nourishing matter they derive from the atmosphere; and perhaps the sweet potatoe, and cassava or manioc, which grow luxuriantly on soil of poor or indifferent quality, maybe indebted chiefly to the atmosphere for the means of their growth. The knowledge of this fact may afford a rule to the planter for selecting the cane-plants most suitable to the condition of his land; and it may encourage him to bring again some of his waste lands, which are supposed to be worn out and no longer useful, into a state of productiveness, by the cultivation of different sorts of provisions.. Upon the same principle, it is proper to caution the planter against the common practice of trashing high, or stripping the trash and redundant leaves too indiscriminately from his canes at an early period of their growth. The nourishing matter derived from the soil by the roots are water, and its constituent parts; and a coaly carbonaceous matter, which is the product of decayed vegetables and of animal dung. This coaly or carbonaceous matter is administered in a state of solution, approaching perhaps to a gaseous state; and if we reflect on the great expansibility of fluids by heat, and the easy manner in which they may be supposed to be admitted into the minute pores of the roots in their most expanded state, we might probably be able to account, in a satisfactory manner, for the rapid growth of plants in hothouses and tropical climates, or in more northern climates during the ho...

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