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 2035
... sometimes 6 in . long ; the sexes being in distinct cat- kins . These catkins , or balls , vary very much in size , being sometimes 4 in . in circumfe- rence , and sometimes not quite 1 in . The flowers are so small as to require a ...
... sometimes 6 in . long ; the sexes being in distinct cat- kins . These catkins , or balls , vary very much in size , being sometimes 4 in . in circumfe- rence , and sometimes not quite 1 in . The flowers are so small as to require a ...
Pàgina 2040
... Sometimes , also , boats were made of two trunks hollowed out , and joined together so as to fit , and be water - tight . The wood of the Oriental plane , according to the experiments of M. Hassenfratz , weighs , when dry , 49 lb. 3 oz ...
... Sometimes , also , boats were made of two trunks hollowed out , and joined together so as to fit , and be water - tight . The wood of the Oriental plane , according to the experiments of M. Hassenfratz , weighs , when dry , 49 lb. 3 oz ...
Pàgina 2045
... sometimes grows upon the brink . Among the trees which compose these forests , the three species men- tioned are least liable to injury from the continued presence of water ; and , by their position , they are exposed to have their ...
... sometimes grows upon the brink . Among the trees which compose these forests , the three species men- tioned are least liable to injury from the continued presence of water ; and , by their position , they are exposed to have their ...
Pàgina 2046
... sometimes employed for bedsteads , which retain their 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 ...
... sometimes employed for bedsteads , which retain their 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 ...
Pàgina 2047
... sometimes in one part , and sometimes in another ; and , as the under bark is , immediately after its excoriation , of a lighter hue than the upper , it offers to the pencil those smart touches which have so much effect in painting ...
... sometimes in one part , and sometimes in another ; and , as the under bark is , immediately after its excoriation , of a lighter hue than the upper , it offers to the pencil those smart touches which have so much effect in painting ...
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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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14 foot 40 years planted Abiétinæ álba Amer appearance bark berries Botanic Garden branches buds Castle catkins cedar Char circumference climate of London colour common juniper cones covered cypress deciduous diameter Dropmore Duke Elvaston Castle England Engravings evergreen excélsa feet female flowers foliage forests France genus glaucous green ground grows growth hardy height Hopetoun House Hort Horticultural Society's Garden Identification imbricated insert introduced Lamb larch leaves length Lindl Lodd Loddiges London male catkins Michaux Michx mountains native North nurseries paragraph headed pine and fir pinetum Pinus plantations produced Pursh resin roots scales Scotch pine Scotland seedlings seeds sheaths shoots shrub silver fir soil Spec species specimens spruce fir stem stone pine sylvestris Synonymes thick timber transplanted trunk 2 ft turpentine variety Willd wood yew trees young trees
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.