 | Thomas Francis Gordon - America - 1831 - 260 pages
...proportion to the ground it occupies. It develops its clusters eight or nine months after planting, and may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut, there is constantly another (pimpollo,) which, having two-thirds of the height of the mother plant, bears fruit... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 644 pages
...eight or nine months after the sucker is planted, the Banana begins to show its flowering stem, and the fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut down, one among the many shoots is always found, which is about twothirds as high as the parent plant,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 640 pages
...eight or nine months after the sucker is planted, the Banana begins to show its flowering stem, and the fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut down, one among the many shoots is always found, which is about twothirds as high as the parent plant,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1839 - 646 pages
...eight or nine months after the sucker is planted, the Banana begins to show its flowering stem, and the fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut down, one among the many shoots is always found, which ia about twothirds as high as the parent plant,... | |
 | John Bell - Diet - 1842 - 504 pages
...In eight or nine months after the sucker is planted, the banana begins to show its flowery stem, and the fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut down, one among the many shoots is always found, which is about two-thirds as high as the parent plant,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commerce - 1852 - 882 pages
...other ptant that produces so grea la quantity of nutritive substance In so small a space. Eight or 9 months after the sucker is planted, it begins to develop« its cluster. The fruit may be gathered In the 10th or llth month. When the stalk i» cut, there is always found, among the numerous shoots that have... | |
 | Great exhibition, 1851 - 1853 - 372 pages
...substance, and this into sugar, so that in the ripe fruit no starch can be detected at all. Humboldt says, " I doubt whether there be any other plant that produces...nine months after the sucker is planted it begins to develope its cluster. The fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut,... | |
 | Mexico - 1863 - 368 pages
...suckers ; and eight or nine months after the sucker is planted the banana begins to come to maturity. The fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stem is cut after gathering the fruit, there is generally found among the numerous shoots a scion which... | |
 | Charles Marion Tyler - Ethnology - 1885 - 386 pages
...these marked crabs were caught on their own grounds. PLANTAIN OR BANANA. Of this fruit Humboldt says : I doubt whether there be any other plant that produces...gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stock is cut there is always found, among the numerous shoots that have taken root, a sprout, being... | |
 | Charles Marion Tyler - Ethnology - 1885 - 392 pages
...these marked crabs were caught on their own grounds. PLANTAIN OR BANANA. Of this fruit Humboldt says: I doubt whether there be any other plant that produces so great a (juantity of nutritive substance in so small a space. Eight or nine months after the sucker is planted,... | |
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... it was resolved to test the question. So about a thousand crabs were caught and marked in various ways, and taken a distance of twenty miles, and put overboard, and in less than a week hundreds of these marked crabs were caught on their own grounds.... 