 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the... | |
 | 1888 - 926 páginas
...purposes to which the bamboo is applicable are almost endless, and well justify the opinion that " it is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions...of Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man" (A. R, Wallace, The Malay Archipelago). BAMBORO U (.JH, a village in Northumberland, on the sea-coast,... | |
 | Sydney John Hickson - 1889 - 440 páginas
...Indies ; and many of its uses must be familiar to everyone. It has \vith great justice been said that ' the bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful...tropics, and one of Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilised man ' (83). Next to the bamboo the most useful plant in Celebes is the sagoweer palm (Arcnga... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - 1894 - 400 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...beautiful productions of -the tropics, and one of God's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. 2. The inhabitants of Borneo floor their houses with... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized... | |
 | 1894 - 264 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions BAMBOO.... | |
 | Otis T. Mason - 1895 - 470 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the... | |
 | 1907 - 780 páginas
...purposes to which the bamboo is applicable are almost endless, and well justify the opinion that " it is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions...of Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man" (AR Wallace, The Malay Archipelago). BAMBOROUGH, a village in Northumberland, on the sea-coast, 14... | |
 | 1910 - 1110 páginas
...purposes to which the bamboo is applicable are almost endless, and well justify the opinion that " it is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions...of Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man " (AR Wallace, The Malay Arckipelago). A number of species of bamboo arc hardy under cultivation in... | |
 | Julia Ellen Rogers - 1913 - 434 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase are all qualities which...Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man." Then follows a long account of the Dyak houses, built and furnished with useful articles, even to cooking... | |
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... regularity with which they can be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes can be made through them, their hardness outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste... 
