A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volum 1C. Knight, 1830 - 422 pàgines |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 56.
Pàgina v
... growth , & c . , producing very hard timber : Elm , Common Mountain Ash , Common 94 1. The Thorn . 153 White Beam 153 95 107 Mountain 110 True Service 111 2. Holly CHAPTER V. Wild Service Indian Hawthorn White Thorn 3. Box , Dwarf 153 ...
... growth , & c . , producing very hard timber : Elm , Common Mountain Ash , Common 94 1. The Thorn . 153 White Beam 153 95 107 Mountain 110 True Service 111 2. Holly CHAPTER V. Wild Service Indian Hawthorn White Thorn 3. Box , Dwarf 153 ...
Pàgina 6
... growth . A writer in a recent number of the Quarterly Review has ascribed this evil to the substitution of a foreign species of oak , in our own plantations , instead of continuing the true native tree * . In the same way , the real ...
... growth . A writer in a recent number of the Quarterly Review has ascribed this evil to the substitution of a foreign species of oak , in our own plantations , instead of continuing the true native tree * . In the same way , the real ...
Pàgina 7
... growth . The same celebrated planter mentions oaks in Donnington Park , near Newbury , once the residence of Chaucer , which could * Planter's Guide , p . 476 . not have arrived at the size which they possessed in THE OAK . 7 Branches ...
... growth . The same celebrated planter mentions oaks in Donnington Park , near Newbury , once the residence of Chaucer , which could * Planter's Guide , p . 476 . not have arrived at the size which they possessed in THE OAK . 7 Branches ...
Pàgina 10
... growth a little , the advantage thereby gained is more than compensated by the deterioration of the timber , which is neither so strong , nor so durable , as that sown by the hand of Nature , or where it is to be allowed to remain ...
... growth a little , the advantage thereby gained is more than compensated by the deterioration of the timber , which is neither so strong , nor so durable , as that sown by the hand of Nature , or where it is to be allowed to remain ...
Pàgina 21
... growth is comparatively rapid , and its wood is straight , elastic , and easily worked . Accordingly , as oak is the chief timber in building ships for the sea , pine is the principal one in the construction of houses upon land . It is ...
... growth is comparatively rapid , and its wood is straight , elastic , and easily worked . Accordingly , as oak is the chief timber in building ships for the sea , pine is the principal one in the construction of houses upon land . It is ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
abundant almond America appearance apple apricot Asia bark bear beautiful berries bogs branches bread-fruit bridge called cedar century cherry chesnut climate colour common common hazel considerable contains cultivated date-tree decay diameter duced durable England Europe feet flavour flowers forest France fruit garden gooseberries green grenadilla grows growth guava height hundred inches inferior insect islands Italy juice land Lapland larch leaves longan mahogany melon mentioned moss mountains mulberry native nearly nectarine North America orange ornamental palm peach pear Persia pine pine-apple places planted plum pomegranate poplar principal probably produced pulp purposes quantity resemblance ripe ripen river roots Scotland season seeds shrub situations soil sorts Spain species stem strawberry surface sweet Syria taste timber timber tree tion tropical trunk turpentine varieties vegetable veneers vine walnut West Indies wild wine wood yellow
Passatges populars
Pàgina 272 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pàgina 57 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pàgina 288 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Pàgina 287 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Pàgina 224 - And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you : it shall not be eaten of.
Pàgina 258 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Pàgina 318 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Pàgina 60 - 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.
Pàgina 240 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Pàgina 74 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together, and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still, and stirred not for all that.