 | 1821 - 438 pages
...before. To suppose they come from he continent is an idle conjecture, because the Engish specimen* are easily distinguished from all others by the superior...vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for several seasons, and not batch, until some extraordinary, but indiscovered coincidences awake them into active... | |
 | George Samouelle - Entomology - 1819 - 532 pages
...particular will not be seen by any one for eight, ten, or more years, and then appear as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the Continent,...vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until some extraordinary but undiscovered coincidence awake them into active... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...not be seen by any one for eight or ten or more years, and then appear again in as great abundance as before. To suppose they come from the continent...Perhaps, their eggs in this climate, like the seeds of pome vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for S several seasons, and not batch, until some extraordinary,... | |
 | Young lady - Great Britain - 1829 - 542 pages
...particular, will not be seen by any one for eight, ten, or more years, and then appear as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the continent...vegetables, may, occasionally, lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until some extraordinary, but undiscovered, coincidence awake them into active... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...more years, and 'lien appear again as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the ' ontinent is an idle conjecture, because the English specimens...the seeds of some vegetables, may occasionally lie uormant for several seasons, and not hatch, until some extraordinary but undiscovered coincidences... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - Insects - 1835 - 332 pages
...Antiopa will not be seen by any one for eight or ten or more years, and then appear again as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the Continent...vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until some extraordinary coincidences awake them into active life." And Mr.... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...Antiopa will not be seen by any one for eight or ten or more years, and then appear again as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the Continent...easily distinguished from all others by the superior whiieness of th< ir borders. Perhaps their eggs in this climate, like the seeds of some vegetables,... | |
 | John Obadiah Westwood - Butterflies - 1855 - 236 pages
...however, it has become rare, but appears periodically, after a lapse of eight, ten, or more years. " To suppose they come from the Continent is an idle...vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until some extraordinary but undiscovered coincidences awake them into active... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...English Channel. Haworth, however, in his " Lepidoptera Britannica," thus combats this opinion : — " To suppose they come from the Continent is an idle...specimens are easily distinguished from all others by the whiteness of their borders. Perhaps their eggs in this climate, like the seeds of some vegetables,... | |
 | Archery - 1857 - 474 pages
...ten, or more years, and then appear us plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the cont>n°nt is an idle conjecture; because the English specimens...vegetables, may, occasionally, lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until some extraordinary, but undiscovered, coioci dence awake them into active... | |
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Antiopa, in particular, will not be seen by any one for eight, ten, or more years, and then appear as plentiful as before. To suppose they come from the continent is an idle conjecture ; because the English specimens are easily distinguished from all... 
