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 211by Sarah Porter - 1852 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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