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" Many vegetable productions, if all their seeds were put into the earth, would in a few years cover the.whole surface of the globe. The hyosciamus, which of all the known plants produces perhaps the greatest number of seeds, would for this purpose require... "
Rational arithmetic - Page 211
by Sarah Porter - 1852 - 263 pages
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - Mathematics - 1803 - 548 pages
...produces perhaps the greatest number of seeds, would for this purpose require no more than four years. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyosciamus produces sometimes more ; than 50000 seeds: now if we admit the number to be only 10000, at the fourth crop...
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Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics: Including Arithmetic ...

William Enfield (M.A.) - Amusements - 1821 - 302 pages
...produces, perhaps, the greatest number of seeds, would, for this purpose require no more than four years. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyosciamus produces sometimes more than 50000 seeds : now, if we admit the number to be only 10000, at the fourth crop...
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Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 1

Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1824 - 394 pages
...plants, produces the greatest number of seeds, would for this purpose require no more than four years. According to some experiments, it has been found that...of the hyosciamus produces more than 50,000 seeds, and/ if we admit the number to be only 10,000, it would amount, at the fourth crop, to 1,000,000,000,000,000,0...
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A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and ..., Volume 2

Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...plants, produces the greatest number of seeds, would for this purpose require no more than four years. According to some experiments, it has been found, that one stem of the hyosciamus produces more than 00,000 seeds, and if we admit the number to be only 10,000, it would amount, at the fourth crop, to...
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Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy, recomposed by m. Montucla ...

Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...produces perhaps the greatest number of seeds, would for this purpose require no more than four years. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyosciamus produces sometimes more than 50000 seeds : WJYV if we admit the number to be only 10000, at the fourth crop...
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Arithmetic, Practically Applied ...

Horace Mann - 1851 - 384 pages
...produced a fish ? Ans. . 2 septillion, a number which would make a mass larger than the whole globe. 14. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyoscyamus sometimes produces more than 50000 seeds. At this rate, if every seed should produce a fertile...
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Arithmetic, Practically Applied, for Advanced Pupils, and for Private ...

Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...produced a fish ? Ans. 2 septillion, a number which would make a mass larger than the whole globe. 14. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyoscyamus sometimes produces more than 50000 seeds. At this rate, if every seed should produce a fertile...
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Arithmetic: Practically Applied, for Advanced Pupils, and for Private ...

Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 398 pages
...produced a fish ? Ans. 2 septillion, a number which would make a mass larger than the whole globe. 14. According to some experiments, it has been found that one stem of the hyoscyamus sometimes produces more than 50000 seeds. At this rate, if every seed should produce a fertile...
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