| Jacob Bigelow - 1817 - 736 páginas
...ob ovate leaves with recurved points. Class Tetandria, order Monogynia, natural or. der Stellatce, Lin. Caprifolia. Juss. The Cornus florida is of slow...intrusion of almost every other vegetable, affording us a moat desirable shelter from the fervid sun-beams at noon day. This admirable grove has by way of eminence... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 810 páginas
...a stratum of stiff yellowish clay. These trees were about 12ft. high, spreading horizontally ; and their limbs meeting, and interlocking with each other,...most desirable shelter from the fervid sunbeams at noonday. This admirable grove, by way of eminence, has acquired the name of the Dog Woods. During a... | |
| Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 548 páginas
...stratum of stiff, yellowish clay. These trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally; and their limbs meeting, and interlocking with each other,...a most desirable shelter from the fervid sunbeams of noonday. This admirable grove, by way of eminence, has acquired the name of the Dog Woods. During... | |
| 1846 - 460 páginas
...the Alabama river he entered a remarkable grove of Dogwood trees, nine or ten miles long ; they were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally, their limbs meeting and interlocking with each other, forming a vast, shady, cool grove, dense enough to exclude the sunbeams. The bark is rough and broken,... | |
| Thomas Nuttall - 1852 - 326 páginas
...stratum of stiff yellowish clay. These trees were about 12 feet high, spreading horizontally ; and their limbs meeting, and interlocking with each other,...most desirable shelter from the fervid sunbeams at noonday. This admirable grove, by way of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog Woods. During a... | |
| Lucius Daniel Davis - 1899 - 366 páginas
...stratum of stiff, yellowish clay. These trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally ; and their limbs, meeting and interlocking with each other,...sunbeams, and prevent the intrusion of almost every vegetable ; affording us a most desirable shelter 280 from the fervid sunbeams at noonday. This admirable... | |
| Lucius Daniel Davis - 1899 - 366 páginas
...stratum of stiff, yellowish clay. These trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally ; and their limbs, meeting and interlocking with each other,...sunbeams, and prevent the intrusion of almost every vegetable ; affording us a most desirable shelter from the fervid sunbeams at noonday. This admirable... | |
| Robbie Franklyn Ethridge - 2003 - 390 páginas
...twelve feet high, with interlocking branches.97 According to a tired and hot Bartram, the whole was "one vast, shady, cool grove so dense and humid as...intrusion of almost every other vegetable, affording a most desirable shelter from the fervid sunbeams at noon -day."98 Most white travelers through Creek... | |
| H. Peter Loewer - 2004 - 280 páginas
...ten miles unalterable, except here and there a towering Magnolia grandiflora. . . .These trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally; their...most desirable shelter from the fervid sun-beams at noon-day. This admirable grove by way of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog woods. Dogwoods... | |
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