Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with Their Propagation, Culture, Management, and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape-gardening; Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates Throughout the World, Tom 4author, and Sold, 1838 - 8 |
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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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Strona 2084 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
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 2122 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Strona 2084 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Strona 2404 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
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 2084 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton 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.
Strona 2083 - Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine.
Strona 2412 - L'homme superbe est renversé, Ses propres flèches l'ont percé. UNE AUTRE. J'ai vu l'impie adoré sur la terre; Pareil au cèdre, il cachait dans les cieux Son front audacieux; II semblait à son gré gouverner le tonnerre, Foulait aux pieds ses ennemis vaincus : Je n'ai fait que passer, il n'était déjà plus.
Strona 2404 - 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. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.