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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... kinds of wood , in regard to their strength , durability , value as fuel , and a variety of other useful information respecting timber and trees never before published . In conclusion , the author requests that his readers will ...
... kinds of wood , in regard to their strength , durability , value as fuel , and a variety of other useful information respecting timber and trees never before published . In conclusion , the author requests that his readers will ...
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... kinds are green - house plants . Few of the species ripen their seeds in England , but most of them do in France . The American species are generally produced from seeds ; but those from Asia are increased by layers , or by inarching ...
... kinds are green - house plants . Few of the species ripen their seeds in England , but most of them do in France . The American species are generally produced from seeds ; but those from Asia are increased by layers , or by inarching ...
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... kinds . This shrub makes excellent hedges ; but there exists a prejudice against it among agriculturists both in Europe and in Amer- ica , from its supposed influence in producing blight , or mildew , on the corn or grain growing near ...
... kinds . This shrub makes excellent hedges ; but there exists a prejudice against it among agriculturists both in Europe and in Amer- ica , from its supposed influence in producing blight , or mildew , on the corn or grain growing near ...
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... kinds of cattle . This tree was highly esteemed by the Romans for its shade ; and , according to Pliny , for the numerous uses to which its wood might be applied . In modern times , the lime - tree was one of the first to attract the ...
... kinds of cattle . This tree was highly esteemed by the Romans for its shade ; and , according to Pliny , for the numerous uses to which its wood might be applied . In modern times , the lime - tree was one of the first to attract the ...
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... kinds , carved into toys , and turned into small boxes for apothecaries . The most elegant use to which it is applied , is for carving , for which it is superior to every other wood . Many of the fine carvings in Windsor Castle ...
... kinds , carved into toys , and turned into small boxes for apothecaries . The most elegant use to which it is applied , is for carving , for which it is superior to every other wood . Many of the fine carvings in Windsor Castle ...
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Página 162 - And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month...
Página 501 - It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.
Página 164 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Página 162 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge...
Página 57 - Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht — Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Möcht ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn!
Página 325 - ... the shealings, or summer pastures, with a rod of the Rowantree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy or summer-house, and drives them home again with the same.
Página 501 - Among other things, they were not to be molested in their lawful pursuits even in the territory they had alienated, for it was to be common to them and the English. They were to have the same liberty to do all things therein relating to the improvement of their grounds, and providing sustenance for their families, which the English had.
Página 205 - ... the passage becomes clogged and the burrow more or less filled with the coarse and fibrous fragments of wood, to get rid of which the grubs are often obliged to open new holes through the bark. The seat of their operations is known by the oozing of the sap and the dropping of the sawdust from the holes. The bark around the part attacked begins to swell, and in a few years the trunks and limbs will become disfigured and weakened by large porous tumors, caused by the efforts of the trees to repair...
Página 494 - The elm naturally grows upright, and, when it meets with a soil it loves, rises higher than the generality of trees ; and after it has assumed the dignity and hoary roughness of age, few of its forest brethren ^though, properly speaking, it is not a forester) excel it in grandeur and beauty. -The elm is the first tree that salutes the early spring with its light and cheerful green, a tint which contrasts agreeably with the oak, whose early leaf has generally more of the olive cast.
Página 500 - Coaquannoc, the Indian name for the place where Philadelphia now stands. On his arrival there he found the Sachems and their tribes assembling. They were seen in the woods as far as the eye could carry, and looked frightful both on account of their number and their arms.