A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber trees, fruitsC. Knight, 1829 - 422 |
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... mentioned twenty - four others , which they found during the course of their travels in South America . Of the various species of oak , some may be classed with shrubs , others with the most majestic trees of the forest ; some are ...
... mentioned twenty - four others , which they found during the course of their travels in South America . Of the various species of oak , some may be classed with shrubs , others with the most majestic trees of the forest ; some are ...
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... mention : -One of the three in Dennington Park , the King's Oak , was fifty feet high before a bough or even a knot appeared , and the base of it squared five feet entirely solid ; the Queen's Oak was straight as a line for forty feet ...
... mention : -One of the three in Dennington Park , the King's Oak , was fifty feet high before a bough or even a knot appeared , and the base of it squared five feet entirely solid ; the Queen's Oak was straight as a line for forty feet ...
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... mentioned , was a tree of immense size , - being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its circumference was sixty - eight ...
... mentioned , was a tree of immense size , - being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its circumference was sixty - eight ...
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... mention of such things proves , that the oak can reach an age several times exceeding that of the longest lived of the human race . Since oak was so much in demand , it has become an object of great attention to planters ; and the ...
... mention of such things proves , that the oak can reach an age several times exceeding that of the longest lived of the human race . Since oak was so much in demand , it has become an object of great attention to planters ; and the ...
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... mentioned by Theophrastus , Pliny , and some other ancient natu- ralists as being well known in the days of the Greeks and Romans , -the latter of whom used it for a variety of purposes , and among the rest for the stop- ping of bottles ...
... mentioned by Theophrastus , Pliny , and some other ancient natu- ralists as being well known in the days of the Greeks and Romans , -the latter of whom used it for a variety of purposes , and among the rest for the stop- ping of bottles ...
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