A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts, Volumen1Dutton and Wentworth, State printers, 1846 - 547 páginas |
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... recently furnished the most abundant supplies , agricul- ture is already taking the place of the lumber trade ; and the disforested region , now changing into beautiful farms , will never be allowed to resume its original wildness ; or ...
... recently furnished the most abundant supplies , agricul- ture is already taking the place of the lumber trade ; and the disforested region , now changing into beautiful farms , will never be allowed to resume its original wildness ; or ...
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... recent shoot , where they take the place of bundles of leaves . The anthers have two cells , from which is discharged a great quantity of sulphur- colored pollen . The fertile flowers are in cones , which are either solitary or two or ...
... recent shoot , where they take the place of bundles of leaves . The anthers have two cells , from which is discharged a great quantity of sulphur- colored pollen . The fertile flowers are in cones , which are either solitary or two or ...
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... recent shoots , usually on the lower limbs , occupying the place of the leaves for one or two inches , and , like them , rising from the axil of a membranaceous scale . Each cone is three - fourths of an inch long and one - fifth broad ...
... recent shoots , usually on the lower limbs , occupying the place of the leaves for one or two inches , and , like them , rising from the axil of a membranaceous scale . Each cone is three - fourths of an inch long and one - fifth broad ...
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... , each twig is terminated with a tuft of yellowish - green recent leaves , sur- mounting the darker green of the former year , the effect , as an object of beauty , is equalled by very few flowering I. 2 . 77 THE HEMLOCK .
... , each twig is terminated with a tuft of yellowish - green recent leaves , sur- mounting the darker green of the former year , the effect , as an object of beauty , is equalled by very few flowering I. 2 . 77 THE HEMLOCK .
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... the unvarying dark green of the foliage has a sombre and melancholy aspect . The recent shoots are pretty large , covered with a light brown surface . The leaves are dark green , two 12 I. 2 . 81 THE BLACK OR DOUBLE SPRUCE .
... the unvarying dark green of the foliage has a sombre and melancholy aspect . The recent shoots are pretty large , covered with a light brown surface . The leaves are dark green , two 12 I. 2 . 81 THE BLACK OR DOUBLE SPRUCE .
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Términos y frases comunes
acorn acuminate acute aments anthers astringent autumn axil bark base beautiful beneath berries birch bracts branches branchlets broad brown buds calyx catkins chestnut chestnut oak color corolla corymbs covered cultivated cymes dark deciduous diameter dots downy drupe England erect Europe feet high Figured in Michaux five fleshy foliage footstalks forest four fruit genus glaucous gray grayish green ground growing growth hairy half an inch height hickory inches long lanceolate larch leaf leaves lobes Maple Massachusetts mid-rib native nearly numerous oblong obtuse ornamental ovary ovate panicles petals petioles pistil pitch pine plants Plate purple racemes recent shoots reddish resemblance roots roundish scales scarlet seeds sepals serrate sessile short shrubs side slender small tree smooth soil sometimes species stalks stamens stem stigmas stipules style surface Sylva tapering terminal timber trunk usually variety veins white oak willow wood yellow yellowish young
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Página 244 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 127 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower With...
Página 10 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still : The Willow, worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The...
Página 241 - ... cabinet and toy making, and for boarded floors; for which last purpose it is well adapted, from its whiteness, and the facility with which it is scoured ; and, also, from the difficulty with which it catches fire, and the slowness with which it burns. In these respects, it is the very reverse of deal. Poplar, like other soft woods, is generally considered not durable; but this is only the case when it is exposed to the...
Página 160 - ... easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw ; because, besides their tenderness and loose lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years long, before which time straw becomes musty and hard.
Página 96 - The bark upon the body is slightly furrowed, smooth to the touch and very white when the tree stands exposed. The wood is reddish, somewhat odorous, very light, soft and fine-grained : in the northern part of the United States and in Canada it holds the first place for durability.
Página 522 - It is also remarkable for the irritability of its stamens, which, when the filament is touched on the inside with the point of a pin, or any other hard instrument, bend forward towards the pistil, touch the stigma with the anther, remain curved for a short time, and then partially recover their erect position : this is best seen in warm, dry we.ither.
Página 4 - At Guiana, in South America, within five degrees of the line, the inhabitants living amid immense forests, a century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold, by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season 'has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance. It thunders continually in the woods, rarely in the cultivated parts.
Página 5 - Atienza. The first cylinders were constructed by Gonzalo de Velosa, and the first sugar mills built by the Spaniards at that time were worked by hydraulic wheels and not by horses. M. de Humboldt, who examined the will of Cortes, informs us that the conqueror had left sugar plantations near Cuyoacan, in the valley of Mexico, where now, owing, it is supposed, to the cutting down of the trees, the cold is too great for sugar cane or any other tropical production to thrive.
Página 445 - Indians for making arrows and pipe stems ; and it is thence termed by the Canadian voyagers Bois de fleche. Its berries, which are about the size of a pea, are the finest fruit in the country ; and are used by the Cree Indians both in a fresh and in a dried state. They " make excellent puddings, very little inferior to plum-pudding.