 | Henry Baker Tristram - 1875 - 544 pages
...particularly flouriih there in vast plentv ; there are palm trees also, which grow but in hot air; fig trees also, and olives grow near them, which yet require...temperate. One may call this place the ambition of nature, where it forces those plants that are naturally enemies to one another to agree together. ... It supplies... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 836 pages
...temper of the air is so well mixed that it agrees very well with these several sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there...temperate. One may call this place the ambition of Nature, where it forces those plants that are naturally enemies to one another to agree together ; it is a... | |
 | Samuel Ives Curtiss - 1879 - 140 pages
...temper of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there...them, which yet require an air that is more temperate. . . . It is a happy contention of the seasons, as if every one of them laid claim to this country;... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1879 - 706 pages
...temper of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty ; there are palm trees also, which grow best in hot air ; fig trees also and olives grow near them, which yet require... | |
 | William Stevens Balch - 1881 - 466 pages
...flourisheth there in vast plenty ; there are palm trees, also, which grow best in hot air ; fig trees also, and olives grow near them, which yet require...temperate. One may call this place the ambition of nature, where it forces those plants that are naturally enemies to one another, to agree together ; it is a... | |
 | John Welsh Dulles - 1881 - 538 pages
...wonderful, as well as its beauty. Its soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it. Walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty. There are palm trees also, which grow best in hot air. Fig trees also, and olives, grow near them, which yet... | |
 | James Morison - 1882 - 644 pages
...greatest " abundance ; palm trees also, which grow best in heat ; fig trees likewise, and " olives, which require an air that is more temperate. One may call this place "the Ambition of nature, where it constrains those plants which are naturally " enemies to one another to agree together. It... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...temper of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several sorts ; particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there...vast plenty ; there are palm-trees also, which grow hest in hot air ; fig-trees also and olives grow near them, which yet require an air that is more temperate.... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1890 - 90 pages
...palmtrees also, which grow but ln hot air; ntj-trees also, and olives grow near them, which yet require on air that Is more temperate. One may call this place the ambition of nature, where it forces those plants that are naturally enemies to one another to agree together. ... It supplies... | |
 | Isaac Errett - 1893 - 396 pages
...temper of the air is so very well mixed that it agrees very well with those several sorts ; particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty; there are palm trees also, which grow best in hot air; fig trees, also, and olives, grow near them, which yet... | |
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... also and olives grow near them which yet require an air that is more temperate. One may call this place the ambition of nature, where it forces those plants that are naturally enemies to one another to agree together ; it is a happy contention of... 
