A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber trees, fruitsC. Knight, 1829 - 422 pàgines |
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... cultivated principally on account of Cherries , Apricots , Wild Plum , Pear , Apple their Fruit Fancy Woods CHAPTER VIII . Applications of Timber Roofs , & c . of Buildings Wooden Bridges • Ships , construction of Light - Houses Forests ...
... cultivated principally on account of Cherries , Apricots , Wild Plum , Pear , Apple their Fruit Fancy Woods CHAPTER VIII . Applications of Timber Roofs , & c . of Buildings Wooden Bridges • Ships , construction of Light - Houses Forests ...
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... cultivated as a garden shrub , and grows well in the open air . The gall is a morbid excrescence produced by the puncture of a winged insect , to which Olivier has given the name of Diplolepis Galle Tinctoriæ . This ex- crescence is of ...
... cultivated as a garden shrub , and grows well in the open air . The gall is a morbid excrescence produced by the puncture of a winged insect , to which Olivier has given the name of Diplolepis Galle Tinctoriæ . This ex- crescence is of ...
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... the country which it had invaded was , at least , fifteen feet . The bursting of the Solway Moss resembled , to a certain extent , the letting out of a dam . Between it 66 and the cultivated plain , the bottom of the THE PINE . 31.
... the country which it had invaded was , at least , fifteen feet . The bursting of the Solway Moss resembled , to a certain extent , the letting out of a dam . Between it 66 and the cultivated plain , the bottom of the THE PINE . 31.
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Timber trees, fruits. 66 and the cultivated plain , the bottom of the moss was lower than the general level of a sort of ridge that formed the boundary between them . But in this ridge there was one depression , not unaptly called the ...
Timber trees, fruits. 66 and the cultivated plain , the bottom of the moss was lower than the general level of a sort of ridge that formed the boundary between them . But in this ridge there was one depression , not unaptly called the ...
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... cultivated in bleak situations as those species . The timber which it produces is softer and less durable than that of either of them ; and , therefore , it is not so well adapted for general pur- poses : but its lightness renders it a ...
... cultivated in bleak situations as those species . The timber which it produces is softer and less durable than that of either of them ; and , therefore , it is not so well adapted for general pur- poses : but its lightness renders it a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - 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 282 - 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 266 - 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 281 - 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 289 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Pàgina 252 - 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 54 - 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 234 - 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 68 - 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.
Pàgina 244 - Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banian grew. It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree; For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propped its lofty head; And many a long, depending shoot, Seeking to strike its root, Straight, like a plummet, grew towards the ground.