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 2033
... tree is applied , in Scotland , to the Acer Pseudo - Plátanus ( see p . 414. ) ; probably because the French , according to Parkinson , first called that the plane tree , from the mistake of Tragus , who fancied , from the broadness of ...
... tree is applied , in Scotland , to the Acer Pseudo - Plátanus ( see p . 414. ) ; probably because the French , according to Parkinson , first called that the plane tree , from the mistake of Tragus , who fancied , from the broadness of ...
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... tree against which Marsyas was hanged up when he was flayed by Apollo . Plane trees were planted near all the public ... tree . Socrates swore by the plane tree ; and this was one of the things which offended Melitus , who thought it a ...
... tree against which Marsyas was hanged up when he was flayed by Apollo . Plane trees were planted near all the public ... tree . Socrates swore by the plane tree ; and this was one of the things which offended Melitus , who thought it a ...
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... tree ( Quam cænam appellavit ille nidum ) . " ( Id . ) Pliny also speaks of a tree in Arcadia , which , he says , was planted by Agamemnon ; and he states that canoes , and other vessels for the sea , were formed of the excavated trunks ...
... tree ( Quam cænam appellavit ille nidum ) . " ( Id . ) Pliny also speaks of a tree in Arcadia , which , he says , was planted by Agamemnon ; and he states that canoes , and other vessels for the sea , were formed of the excavated trunks ...
Page 2040
... tree . Poetical Allusions . Homer frequently mentions " the shady plane ; " Theo- critus tells us that the virgins of Sparta used to assemble round a plane tree , singing , " Reverence me , for I am the tree of Helen ! " and Moschus ...
... tree . Poetical Allusions . Homer frequently mentions " the shady plane ; " Theo- critus tells us that the virgins of Sparta used to assemble round a plane tree , singing , " Reverence me , for I am the tree of Helen ! " and Moschus ...
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... trees are from one another , is always pro- portionate to the size of the leaves , hence the tree , in winter , is more than usually open to the sun's rays . As an ornamental tree , no one , which attains so large a size , has a finer ...
... trees are from one another , is always pro- portionate to the size of the leaves , hence the tree , in winter , is more than usually open to the sun's rays . As an ornamental tree , no one , which attains so large a size , has a finer ...
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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.