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, Volum 4author, and sold, 1838 |
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Pàgina 2032
... become fully expanded is cast off , and , floating in the atmosphere , is inhaled by gardeners and others who have occasion to be much among the trees , and produces a cough which is extremely disagreeable , and is not got rid of for ...
... become fully expanded is cast off , and , floating in the atmosphere , is inhaled by gardeners and others who have occasion to be much among the trees , and produces a cough which is extremely disagreeable , and is not got rid of for ...
Pàgina 2042
... become such an object of ad . miration to recent travellers , Gillies takes no notice of it , nor even Tournefort , whose botanical pur . suits would naturally have led him to do so . " ( Residence in Constantinople , & c . ) Near ...
... become such an object of ad . miration to recent travellers , Gillies takes no notice of it , nor even Tournefort , whose botanical pur . suits would naturally have led him to do so . " ( Residence in Constantinople , & c . ) Near ...
Pàgina 2046
... become more common than P. orien- talis . The tree propagating readily by cuttings , and growing with great rapidity , was , in Miller's time , and indeed till 1809 , considered hardier than the Oriental plane ; but , in the May of that ...
... become more common than P. orien- talis . The tree propagating readily by cuttings , and growing with great rapidity , was , in Miller's time , and indeed till 1809 , considered hardier than the Oriental plane ; but , in the May of that ...
Pàgina 2049
... . or 20 ft .; and its secondary branches become co- vered with a dry flaky bark , the plates of which are attached at the edge , in- 1961 stead of the face , as is the case with 6 R 2 CHAP . CVIII . 2049 BALSAMA CEE . LIQUIDAMBAR .
... . or 20 ft .; and its secondary branches become co- vered with a dry flaky bark , the plates of which are attached at the edge , in- 1961 stead of the face , as is the case with 6 R 2 CHAP . CVIII . 2049 BALSAMA CEE . LIQUIDAMBAR .
Pàgina 2056
... become compound . The scales of the male catkins are of a red shining brown ; and the lower ones of the female catkins have a circlet of red hairs towards the tip . The berries are very small , and covered with resinous dots , like the ...
... become compound . The scales of the male catkins are of a red shining brown ; and the lower ones of the female catkins have a circlet of red hairs towards the tip . The berries are very small , and covered with resinous dots , like the ...
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Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of ..., Volum 4 John Claudius Loudon Visualització completa - 1838 |
Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of ..., Volum 4 John Claudius Loudon Visualització completa - 1844 |
Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of ..., Volum 4 John Claudius Loudon Visualització completa - 1854 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 2398 - 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.
Pàgina 2088 - 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.
Pàgina 2404 - 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.
Pàgina 2161 - 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.
Pàgina 2088 - 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 Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Pàgina 2400 - 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.
Pàgina 2107 - The water at this period is exceedingly cold; yet for weeks the lumberers are in it from morning till night, and it is seldom less than a month and a half, from the time that floating the timber down the streams commences, until the rafts are delivered to the merchants. No course of life can undermine the constitution more than that of a lumberer and raftsman. The winter snow and frost, although severe, are nothing to endure in comparison to the extreme coldness of the snow water of the freshets;...
Pàgina 2533 - Thus having said, the bowls (removed for fear) The youths replaced, and soon restored the cheer. On sods of turf he set the soldiers round: A maple throne, raised higher from the ground, Received the Trojan chief; and, o'er the bed, A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread.
Pàgina 2173 - Duke perceived that the plantation required thinning, in order to admit a free circulation of air, and give health and vigour to the young trees. He accordingly gave instructions to his gardener, and directed him as to the mode and extent of the thinning required. The gardener paused, and hesitated, and at length said, "Your Grace must pardon me, if I humbly remonstrate against your orders, but I cannot possibly do what you desire: it would at once destroy the young plantation, and, moreover, it...
Pàgina 2364 - ... as a tree, it is less than any other pleasing ; its branches (for boughs it has none) have no variety in the youth of the tree, and little dignity even when it attains its full growth; leaves it cannot be said to have, consequently neither affords shade nor shelter.