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Strona 2034
... kind in the Horticultural Society's Garden , of which the plate in our last Volume is a portrait . Other Varieties might be selected from beds of seedlings , if it were thought worth while to keep them distinct ; and , if a pendulous ...
... kind in the Horticultural Society's Garden , of which the plate in our last Volume is a portrait . Other Varieties might be selected from beds of seedlings , if it were thought worth while to keep them distinct ; and , if a pendulous ...
Strona 2040
... considerable age ; after which it becomes brown , mixed with jasper - like veins ; and wood of this kind , being rubbed with oil , and then highly polished , resembles the wood 2040 PART III . ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM .
... considerable age ; after which it becomes brown , mixed with jasper - like veins ; and wood of this kind , being rubbed with oil , and then highly polished , resembles the wood 2040 PART III . ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM .
Strona 2047
... kind , only its leaf is more palmated ; nor has it so great a disposition to overshadow the ground as the Occidental plane ; at least , I never saw any in our climate form so noble a shade , though in the East it is esteemed among the ...
... kind , only its leaf is more palmated ; nor has it so great a disposition to overshadow the ground as the Occidental plane ; at least , I never saw any in our climate form so noble a shade , though in the East it is esteemed among the ...
Strona 2049
... kind of cone , composed of in- durated connected scales , in the cavities of which lie obconical , 2 - lobed , 2 - celled capsules . Seeds numerous , or solitary by abortion ; compressed , membranous , winged , attached internally to ...
... kind of cone , composed of in- durated connected scales , in the cavities of which lie obconical , 2 - lobed , 2 - celled capsules . Seeds numerous , or solitary by abortion ; compressed , membranous , winged , attached internally to ...
Strona 2051
... kind of firewood . Bosc says , speaking of this tree : " Its wood is too liable to decay to be used for any purpose where it will be exposed to the open air ; too brittle to be employed by the carpenter ; and too apt to warp to be of ...
... kind of firewood . Bosc says , speaking of this tree : " Its wood is too liable to decay to be used for any purpose where it will be exposed to the open air ; too brittle to be employed by the carpenter ; and too apt to warp to be of ...
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14 foot 40 years planted A'bies Abiétinæ álba Amer appearance bark black spruce Botanic Garden branches broad buds Castle catkins cedar Char circumference climate of London colour cones covered cypress deciduous diameter Dropmore Duke England Engravings evergreen excélsa feet flowers foliage forests France fungi genus glaucous green ground grows growth hardy height Hopetoun House Hort Horticultural Society's Garden Identification imbricated insert introduced Lamb larch leaves length Lindl Lodd Loddiges London male catkins Michaux Michx mountains native North nurseries paragraph headed pendulous Picea pine and fir pinetum Pinus plantations produced Pursh resin roots scales Schwein Scotch pine Scotland seedlings seeds sheaths shoots shrub silver fir soil Spec species specimens spruce fir stem stone pine sylvestris Synonymes thick timber trunk 2 ft turpentine variety Willd wood young trees
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Strona 2122 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Strona 2084 - Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore ; Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference, and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing 10 Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Strona 2084 - He gathers all the parish there ; Points out the place of either yew, Here Baucis, there Philemon, grew : Till once a parson of our town, ' To mend his barn, cut Baucis down ; At which, 'tis hard to be...
Strona 2418 - Behold the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. His boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long. The fir trees were not like his boughs, nor the chestnut trees like his branches, nor any tree in the garden of God like unto him in beauty."* In England the Cedar of Lebanon appears to have become quite naturalized.
Strona 2412 - These, however, from their size and general appearance, may be fairly presumed to have existed in Biblical times. Around these ancient witnesses of ages long since past there still remains a little grove of yellower Cedars, appearing to me to form a group of 1 Irby and Mangles.
Strona 2171 - Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Strona 2138 - When these tremendous fires are once in motion, or at least when the flames extend over a few miles of the forest, the surrounding air becomes highly rarefied, and the wind naturally increases to a hurricane.
Strona 2174 - Bothnia everywhere appeared of the grandest character, surrounded by noble forests, whose tall trees, flourishing luxuriantly, covered the soil quite down to the water's edge. From the most southern parts of Westro-Bothnia to the northern extremity of the gulf the inhabitants are occupied in the manufacture of tar, proofs of which are visible along the whole extent of the coast.
Strona 2230 - ... a longer stem. But as it attains maturity, its picturesque form increases fast. Its lengthening stem assumes commonly an easy sweep. It seldom indeed deviates much from a straight line, but that gentle deviation is very graceful, and above all other lines difficult to imitate. If accidentally either the stem or any of the larger branches take a larger sweep than usual, that sweep seldom fails to be graceful. It is also among the beauties of the stone pine, that, as the lateral branches decay,...
Strona 2174 - During this combustion, the tar exudes ; and a cast-iron pan being at the bottom of the funnel, with a spout, which projects through the side of the bank, barrels are placed beneath this spout, to collect the fluid as it comes away.