 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 520 pages
...leaves are necessarily renewed every year, so also are the other essential organs of the plant. The tree is gradually developed by the successive addition...restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of early youth, — the most recent branchlets being placed, by means of the latest layer of wood, in... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 552 pages
...leaves are necessarily renewed every year, so also are the other essential organs of the plant. The tree is gradually developed by the successive addition...concerned in its life and growth. Thus, like the fabled .Ksim, being restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of early youth, — the most recent... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - Logic - 1896 - 202 pages
...leaves are necessarily renewed every year, so also are the other essential organs of the plant. The tree is gradually developed by the successive addition...concerned in its life and growth. Thus, like the fabled jtson, being restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of early youth, — the most recent... | |
 | Rodney Sydes Ellsworth - Coast redwood - 1924 - 200 pages
...But the leaves are necessarily renewed every year, so are the other essential organs of the plant. It annually renews not only its buds and leaves, but...and its roots; everything, indeed, that is concerned with its life and growth. "Though the wood in the center and large branches — the produce of buds... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - Logic - 1930 - 240 pages
...like an animal. His opinion was that a tree is like a coralgrove, a community of individuals. The tree is gradually developed by the successive addition...everything indeed that is concerned in its life and growth. Why has not the tree all the conditions of existence in the thousandth year of its age that it possessed... | |
 | Botanical Society of Edinburgh - Botany - 1905 - 552 pages
...commit themselves either for or against it. We will quote Dr. Asa Gray's explanation of the theory :l " For the tree (unlike the animal) is gradually developed...concerned in its life and growth. Thus, like the fabled ./Eson, being restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of youth, the most recent branchlets... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1919 - 476 pages
...MELROSE. WHY SHOULD A TREE DIE? Dr. Bernard E. Fernorv. So impressed was Dr. Asa Gray with the persistence of individual tree life that he questioned whether...restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of youth,—the most recent branchlets being placed by means of the latest layer of wood in favorable... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1895 - 676 pages
...arborescent flora this final victory over its competitors. So impressed was Dr. Asa Gray with the persistence of individual tree life that he questioned whether...concerned in its life and growth. Thus, like the fabled ¿Eson, being restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of early youth, the most recent branchlets... | |
 | J. W. Niesigh, C. J. B. Watson - Forests and forestry - 1920 - 330 pages
...the successive addition of new parts (writes Dr. Bernard E. Fernow in The Canadian Forestry Journal). It annually renews not only its buds and leaves, but...being placed by means of the latest layer of wood in favourable communication with the newly-formed roots, and these extending at a corresponding rate into... | |
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Thus, like the fabled .AEson, being restored from the decrepitude of age to the bloom of early youth, — the most recent branchlets being placed, by means of the latest layer of wood, in favorable communication with the newly formed roots, and these... 