The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described. Illustrated by Numerous EngravingsHarper, 1846 - 520 páginas |
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... sometimes caught by means of it . Michaux tells us that it is felled by them for constructing their dams and houses , in preference to any other tree , on account of the softness of the wood . Engravings . Michaux , North American Sylva ...
... sometimes caught by means of it . Michaux tells us that it is felled by them for constructing their dams and houses , in preference to any other tree , on account of the softness of the wood . Engravings . Michaux , North American Sylva ...
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... sometimes found ovate , nearly orbiculate , and cordate - acuminate . The flowers , which open in May , are five or six inches in diameter . They are bluish , and sometimes white , with a tint of yellow , and emit but a feeble odour ...
... sometimes found ovate , nearly orbiculate , and cordate - acuminate . The flowers , which open in May , are five or six inches in diameter . They are bluish , and sometimes white , with a tint of yellow , and emit but a feeble odour ...
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... sometimes found , however , on the steep banks of the rivers which rise in the Alleghanies , and on one side , roll their waters into the Atlantic , and on the other , to meet the Ohio . This tree was discovered by John Bartram , from ...
... sometimes found , however , on the steep banks of the rivers which rise in the Alleghanies , and on one side , roll their waters into the Atlantic , and on the other , to meet the Ohio . This tree was discovered by John Bartram , from ...
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... sometimes wrapped round with straw ropes ; but it never requires any other protection , even in the climate of Pekin . The tree was first introduced into England by Sir Joseph Banks , in 1789 ; but it was many years before it attracted ...
... sometimes wrapped round with straw ropes ; but it never requires any other protection , even in the climate of Pekin . The tree was first introduced into England by Sir Joseph Banks , in 1789 ; but it was many years before it attracted ...
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... sometimes constitutes , alone , considerable tracts of the forest , as was observed by the elder Michaux , on the road from Beardstone to Louisville , in Kentucky . The artificial geography of this tree may be said to embrace the middle ...
... sometimes constitutes , alone , considerable tracts of the forest , as was observed by the elder Michaux , on the road from Beardstone to Louisville , in Kentucky . The artificial geography of this tree may be said to embrace the middle ...
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