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, Volume 4 |
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Page 2040
... growing at his own villa , " to the late Sir George Crook of Oxfordshire ; " and he speaks of the true , or Oriental , plane " as being more common in England , in his time , than the American plane ; the reverse of which , it may be ...
... growing at his own villa , " to the late Sir George Crook of Oxfordshire ; " and he speaks of the true , or Oriental , plane " as being more common in England , in his time , than the American plane ; the reverse of which , it may be ...
Page 2041
... growing state , was greatly esteemed for its shade , and was planted near houses , in open groves , avenues , and rows ... grow in strong clays , and on elevated exposed places ; nor will it thrive in places where the lime tree does not ...
... growing state , was greatly esteemed for its shade , and was planted near houses , in open groves , avenues , and rows ... grow in strong clays , and on elevated exposed places ; nor will it thrive in places where the lime tree does not ...
Page 2050
... grows , also , in the great swamps that border the rivers ; and there , owing , doubtless , to the mildness of the winters , and the intense heat of the summers , it displays its amplest dimensions . " The largest trees grow in moist ...
... grows , also , in the great swamps that border the rivers ; and there , owing , doubtless , to the mildness of the winters , and the intense heat of the summers , it displays its amplest dimensions . " The largest trees grow in moist ...
Page 2054
... grow in a soil rather drier than the preceding species will ; though Du Hamel 1964 was informed that in its native country it grows in moist soil , by water , like the willow . It is therefore probable , that , if planted in similar ...
... grow in a soil rather drier than the preceding species will ; though Du Hamel 1964 was informed that in its native country it grows in moist soil , by water , like the willow . It is therefore probable , that , if planted in similar ...
Page 2063
... grow to their full size , form evergreen bushes ; not by the colour of their leaves , which are scarcely perceptible ... grows to the height of 3 ft . or 4 ft .; and flow- ers in June and July , ripening its berries a short time after ...
... grow to their full size , form evergreen bushes ; not by the colour of their leaves , which are scarcely perceptible ... grows to the height of 3 ft . or 4 ft .; and flow- ers in June and July , ripening its berries a short time after ...
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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 Conif covered cypress deciduous diameter Dropmore Duke England Engravings evergreen excélsa feet flowers fœm 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 Pináster 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 young trees
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Page 2084 - 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.
Page 2122 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 2122 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 2084 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 2404 - 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.
Page 2084 - He gathers all the parish there ; Points out the place of either yew, Here Baucis, there Philemon, grew : Till once a parson of our town, ' To mend his barn, cut Baucis down ; At which, 'tis hard to be...
Page 2084 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Page 2083 - Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine.
Page 2412 - L'homme superbe est renversé, Ses propres flèches l'ont percé. UNE AUTRE. 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.
Page 2404 - 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. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.