 | Book - 1837 - 232 pàgines
...the soil and the climate. In Virginia and Kentucky it grows to the largest size, sometimes as much as seventy or eighty feet in height, and three or four feet in diameter; but in parts of the country less favourable to its growth, it rarely exceeds one-half that size. The... | |
 | 1837 - 260 pàgines
...the soil and the climate. In Virginia and Kentucky it grows to the largest size, sometimes as much as seventy or eighty feet in height, and three or four feet in diameter ; but in parts of the country less favourable to its growth, it rarely exceeds one- half that size.... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pàgines
...the soil and the climate. In Virginia and Kentucky it grows to the largest size, sometimes as much as seventy or eighty feet in height, and three or four feet in diameter; but in parts of the country less favourable to its growth, it rarely exceeds one-half that size. The... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 442 pàgines
...overflowing in the spring. On the banks of the Genessee, where the winter is rigorous, the cotton wood is seventy or eighty feet in height and three or four feet in diameter. The leaves are deltoid, or trowel-shaped, approaching to cordiform, always longer than they are broad,... | |
 | George Sinclair - 1862 - 160 pàgines
...similar to the Populus leevigata. He calls our Canadian poplar cotton-wood, and states that it rises to seventy or eighty feet in height, and three or four feet in diameter ; and it is preferred as a useful tree. The Ontario, or smooth-leaved poplar, may rank next in order... | |
 | Rochester Academy of Science - 1906 - 378 pàgines
...Canadtnsis) as being found in that part of Genesee which borders on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Of Popultis Canadcnsis, he speaks particularly of its growing...shellbark hickory and black walnut, as being abundant m the Genesee country. 1792. — Reflections offertes aux Capitalistes de 1'Europe. By Capt. Van Pradelles.... | |
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... mountains, it is found two or three degrees further to the north, and it abounds in all the valleys of the Alleghany chain. The dimensions it attains in its native country vary according to the nature of the soil and the climate. In Virginia and Kentucky... 