I think this great Prolificness may be connected with the uniformly warm temperature of these islands and the great heat of the sun there all through the year rendering much incubation unnecessary.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Whether the honorable portion of their parentage is to be ascribed exclusively to the few abolitionists scattered over the South-and who, under such supposition, must, indeed, be prodigies of industry and Prolificness-or whether anti-abolitionists there have, notwithstanding all their pious horror of "amalgamation," been contributing to it, you can better judge than myself.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
Even though all the seedlings were of good size, yet the variation in time of ripening, quality, Prolificness, form and size would be against them.
"The Pecan and its Culture"
H. Harold Hume