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When the nuts reach the ground , their travels are by no means finished . Every gust of wind catches the bract and carries it farther . In winter , on ice or frozen snow , the bract forms an admirable ice boat , and often travels for ...
When the nuts reach the ground , their travels are by no means finished . Every gust of wind catches the bract and carries it farther . In winter , on ice or frozen snow , the bract forms an admirable ice boat , and often travels for ...
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Cultivation has rendered them so heavy that the wind is unable to bear them aloft . ground , which offers a thousand obstacles to the seeds ' advance . The ground nut , or ground cherry , bears its fruit in a thin , paper - like sac ...
Cultivation has rendered them so heavy that the wind is unable to bear them aloft . ground , which offers a thousand obstacles to the seeds ' advance . The ground nut , or ground cherry , bears its fruit in a thin , paper - like sac ...
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The accompanying photograph shows a view in the Chinese burial ground in Portland , Ore . , where there are now about one hundred burials a year . Formerly there were nearly a thousand but the restriction laws have materially reduced ...
The accompanying photograph shows a view in the Chinese burial ground in Portland , Ore . , where there are now about one hundred burials a year . Formerly there were nearly a thousand but the restriction laws have materially reduced ...
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professional money lender is helpless to escape and how tragedy not infrequently follows the borrowing | 159 |
Making Charity | 251 |
made real financial successes alone in the cultivation of land and she points out some new ways | 299 |
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