 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1837 - 470 pages
...sunflower four thousand. A capsule of the poppy has been found to contain eight thousand seeds. It has been calculated that a single thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twenty-four thousand, and atthe second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventy-six millions. In... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1849 - 228 pages
...thousands. A stalk of Indian corn is said to have produced in oneseason, two thousand seeds. It has been calculated that a single Thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twenty-four .housand, and at the second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventy-six millions.... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1850 - 476 pages
...sunflower four thousand. A capsule of the poppy has been found to contain eight thousand seeds. It has been calculated that a single thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twenty-four thousand, and at the second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventy-six millions.... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - Botany - 1853 - 444 pages
...Woodward has calculated, that one thistle-seed will produce at the first crop twenty-four thousand, and consequently five hundred and seventy-six millions of seeds at the second crop. Martyn's Virgilii Georg. p. 34, edit. 1819. wede away, for the gay and gorgeous effect they produce,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1854 - 230 pages
...thousands. A stalk of Indian corn is said to have produced in one season, two thousand seeds. It has been calculated that a single Thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twenty-four .housand, and at the second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventy-six millions.... | |
 | William Baird - Libraries--Special collections--Rare books - 1858 - 642 pages
...prolific in seeds. One thistle teed, it has been calculated, will produce at the first crop 24,000, and consequently, five hundred and seventy-six millions of seeds at the second crop ! Carduut nutiau is one of our handsomest species, and the fine large flowers and the under sides of... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1873 - 228 pages
...thousands. A stalk of Indian corn is said to have produced in one season, two thousand seeds. It has been calculated that a single Thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twenty-four .housand, and at the second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventy-six millions.... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1927 - 824 pages
...360,000. The same learned naturalist estimates the annual produce of a single stalk of Spleen-wort (Asplenium) to be upwards of one million of seed....Thistle seed will produce at the first cro.p, 24,000 seeds; and, consequently, five hundred and seventy-six millions of seeds, at the second crop! Well... | |
 | Henry D. Thoreau - Nature - 1993 - 320 pages
...the source for an allusion made by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps in Familiar Lectures on Botany: "It has been calculated that a single thistle seed will produce, at the first crop, twentyfour thousand, and at the second crop, at this rate, five hundred and seventysix millions" (p.... | |
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... equal in weight to one grain; and that the weight of the whole quantity of seed in a single stalk of Tobacco, is such, that the number of seeds, according to the above-mentioned proportion, must be 3 60, 000. 
