 | Howard Malcom - Burma - 1839 - 668 pages
...it hangs within reach. Like other palms, it has no branches. The PUota,o-Tree. Humboldt calculates that thirty-three pounds of wheat, and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes, require the same surface of ground, that will produce four thousand pounds of ripe plantains, which is to potatoes as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M.Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1837 - 474 pages
...forty plants, to exceed four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates, "that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is, consequently, to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1852 - 620 pages
...plantation would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 to 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Robert Sears - Curiosities and wonders - 1856 - 566 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 132 to 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | William Rhind - Botany - 1857 - 874 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1 , and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctic regions - 1871 - 776 pages
...and harvest upon harvest. A single bunch of bananas often weighs from sixty to seventy pounds, and Humboldt has calculated that thirtythree pounds of...ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space of ground to grow upon as will produce 4,000 pounds of bananas. This prodigality of nature, secmingly... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctica - 1877 - 876 pages
...of bananas often weighs from sixty to seventy pounds, and Humboldt has calculated that thirrjthree pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space of ground to grow upon as will produce 4,000 pounds of bananas. This prodigality of nature, seemingly... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - Agriculture - 1884 - 138 pages
...Africa and China. Regarding its productiveness, we may repeat that oft-quoted statement of Humboldt, that thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes, require the same space of ground to grow upon, as will produce four thousand pounds of bananas. From a year to eighteen months... | |
 | Frank Vincent - Botany - 1899 - 298 pages
...and harvest upon harvest. A single bunch of bananas often weighs from sixty to seventy pounds, and Humboldt has calculated that thirty-three pounds of...ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space of ground to grow upon as will produce four thousand pounds of bananas. 3. This prodigality of Nature,... | |
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Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas... 
