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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... Fruit Fancy Woods CHAPTER VIII . Applications of Timber Roofs , & c . of Buildings Wooden Bridges • Ships , construction of Light - Houses Forests and Planting Duties on Foreign Timber CHAPTER I. The Lime INTRODUCTION The Orange The ...
... Fruit Fancy Woods CHAPTER VIII . Applications of Timber Roofs , & c . of Buildings Wooden Bridges • Ships , construction of Light - Houses Forests and Planting Duties on Foreign Timber CHAPTER I. The Lime INTRODUCTION The Orange The ...
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... fruit which was used as food . The Quercus ilex ( the evergreen oak ) , which is still common in Spain , in Italy , in Greece , in Syria , in the south of France , and on the shores of the Mediterranean , bears a fruit which , in its ...
... fruit which was used as food . The Quercus ilex ( the evergreen oak ) , which is still common in Spain , in Italy , in Greece , in Syria , in the south of France , and on the shores of the Mediterranean , bears a fruit which , in its ...
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... fruit - tree which is transplanted lives , it always at least forms fruit the first year , although it may not bear again for several years after . About the middle of the seventeenth century , there were some operations of a similar ...
... fruit - tree which is transplanted lives , it always at least forms fruit the first year , although it may not bear again for several years after . About the middle of the seventeenth century , there were some operations of a similar ...
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Timber trees, fruits. for burning in lamps . When the leaves and recent husks , in their green state , are macerated in ... fruit , all the varieties may be obtained by sowing the nuts of the same tree . In cultivated vegetables , indeed ...
Timber trees, fruits. for burning in lamps . When the leaves and recent husks , in their green state , are macerated in ... fruit , all the varieties may be obtained by sowing the nuts of the same tree . In cultivated vegetables , indeed ...
Pàgina 145
... fruit , the mulberry , unlike most other fruit - trees , produces fruit in greater abund- ance and of larger size as it gets older ; and , as its dense and dark foliage forms a fine contrast with trees of more airy form and lighter hue ...
... fruit , the mulberry , unlike most other fruit - trees , produces fruit in greater abund- ance and of larger size as it gets older ; and , as its dense and dark foliage forms a fine contrast with trees of more airy form and lighter hue ...
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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.