 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1805 - 622 pages
...worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but ill without them,•by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering...the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks cf leaves and twigs into it : and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps called... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed hut lamely without them, by boring, perforating and loosening...rains, and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws, stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such an infinite number of lumps... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...Though considered a great nuisance by gardeners, they bore, perforate, and loosen the soil, and render it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by...straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and chiefly by throwing infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grass... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...back of each segment of its body, bearing a small bristle in each. SYNONYM. Lumbricus marimis, Linn. and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and chiefly, by throwing up infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grass... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 514 pages
...quadrupeds, which are almost entirely »upported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vei^ tation — which would proceed but lamely without them— by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and renderinc it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing «talk "' leaves and twigs into it... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supjsirted by them, worms seem to be great promoters ot' vegetation — which would proceed but lamely without...them — by boring, perforating, and loosening the snil, and rendering it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing stalks <•( leaves and twigs... | |
 | Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1831 - 510 pages
...half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed...rains, and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws, stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such an infinite number of lumps... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1832 - 498 pages
...age and debility. HABITS OF THE EARTH-WORM. — According to White, of Selborne, earth-worms are " great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed...the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks ofleaves and twigs into it ; and most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but slowly without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening...of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts,... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...seem to be the great promoters of vegetation. They bore, perforate, and loosen thesoil, and render it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by...straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it; and, chiefly, by throwing up infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a finemanure for grass... | |
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For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and... 
