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, Band 4author, and Sold, 1838 - 8 Seiten |
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... natural order altogether distinct from any previously known , and connecting certain well - known natural orders in an unexpected and satisfactory manner . In its amen- * 6 Q.
... natural order altogether distinct from any previously known , and connecting certain well - known natural orders in an unexpected and satisfactory manner . In its amen- * 6 Q.
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... of the trees discovered and figured by Catesby in his Natural History of Carolina ( i . t . 56. ) ; and it was introduced about 1630 , by Mr. John Tradescant , in whose garden two small CHAP . CVII . 2045 PLATANA CEÆ . PLA'TANUS .
... of the trees discovered and figured by Catesby in his Natural History of Carolina ( i . t . 56. ) ; and it was introduced about 1630 , by Mr. John Tradescant , in whose garden two small CHAP . CVII . 2045 PLATANA CEÆ . PLA'TANUS .
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... natural colour , and are coated with varnish . The wood soon decays when exposed to the weather . Like the wood of the beech , it shrinks very much in drying , and is very apt to split . As fuel , it does not produce a very lively flame ...
... natural colour , and are coated with varnish . The wood soon decays when exposed to the weather . Like the wood of the beech , it shrinks very much in drying , and is very apt to split . As fuel , it does not produce a very lively flame ...
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... natural appearance which the spray of the oak , and that of many other trees , discover in winter ; nor , indeed , does its foliage , from the largeness of the leaf , and the mode of its growth , make the most picturesque appearance in ...
... natural appearance which the spray of the oak , and that of many other trees , discover in winter ; nor , indeed , does its foliage , from the largeness of the leaf , and the mode of its growth , make the most picturesque appearance in ...
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... natural woods and in artificial plantations . Ac- cording to Miller and Lamarck , both sexes are sometimes found on the same tree ; and the fact will be found confirmed in a future page . As far as we have been able to observe , says ...
... natural woods and in artificial plantations . Ac- cording to Miller and Lamarck , both sexes are sometimes found on the same tree ; and the fact will be found confirmed in a future page . As far as we have been able to observe , says ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.