Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
...Beal of the class of 1893 has presented to the botanical museum, through Professor Farlow, an enormous fruit of Artocarpus, the species being that which is known in the tropics as the "Jack-fruit," allied to the well-known Bread-fruit...
...choose some single thing which he thinks needs reforming and do his best to bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit. Behind these small bodies there must be clubs and associations ready to give aid and influence to the more active reformers...
...inherent means for the distribution of plants were divided into three classes-by stem, by root, and by fruit-and these were still further subdivided-stem into suckers, runners and rhizomes; roots into aerial growth as is the case with the banyan and rattan; and fruit into dehiscence, both active and passive, and elasticity. Dehiscence is not necessarily elastic, and an ordinary observer cannot fail to corroborate the truth of this statement by seeing the workings of nature in regard to plant growth. Inherent means for dissemination, however, must always prove limited, and it is necessary to depend largely...
...forms of legality. With the German the tendency towards intellectual theory is natural. He thinks before he acts; does not get his knowledge from experience-as is the case with the English-but from a careful and deep insight into himself. Then, when it is time to reap the fruit of this study of his mind and conscience, he acts. In other words, internal activity precedes external activity. Owing to this ability of looking into himself, the German in his scientific works is comprehensive, systematic, systematic, and to the point. His process of going to work is as follows...