The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
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... forty feet in height ; but , during the civil war of La Vendée , it was mutilated , and lost most of its branches . Afterwards , the burning of a house , near where it stands , having damaged its fine head , it was treated as an orange ...
... forty feet in height ; but , during the civil war of La Vendée , it was mutilated , and lost most of its branches . Afterwards , the burning of a house , near where it stands , having damaged its fine head , it was treated as an orange ...
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... forty feet in height , and six or eight inches in diameter , which con- tained about eighty concentric rings or annual layers . On the estate of Lemuel W. Wells , in Yonkers , ( formerly Philipsburgh , ) New York , there is a Magnolia ...
... forty feet in height , and six or eight inches in diameter , which con- tained about eighty concentric rings or annual layers . On the estate of Lemuel W. Wells , in Yonkers , ( formerly Philipsburgh , ) New York , there is a Magnolia ...
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... forty feet , with a diam- eter of five or six inches , it rarely attains this size . The stem is seldom erect , but generally inclined , and rises , from the root in twos or threes . The bark on the trunk is gray , smooth , and polished ...
... forty feet , with a diam- eter of five or six inches , it rarely attains this size . The stem is seldom erect , but generally inclined , and rises , from the root in twos or threes . The bark on the trunk is gray , smooth , and polished ...
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... forty years in one spot , has had its stems several times renewed during that period . Properties and Uses . The wood of the Magnolia umbrella is spongy , brittle , with a large pith , soft , porous , and of very little use . Hence it ...
... forty years in one spot , has had its stems several times renewed during that period . Properties and Uses . The wood of the Magnolia umbrella is spongy , brittle , with a large pith , soft , porous , and of very little use . Hence it ...
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... forty - three degrees . It grows along the whole mountainous tract of the Alleghanies to their termination in Georgia ; and is common on the Cumberland Mountains , which divide the state of Tennessee . " At the distance of forty or ...
... forty - three degrees . It grows along the whole mountainous tract of the Alleghanies to their termination in Georgia ; and is common on the Cumberland Mountains , which divide the state of Tennessee . " At the distance of forty or ...
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abundance Acer acuminate ambitus American Elm ANGLO-AMERICA appear apple Arboretum Britannicum attained the height attains a height bark beautiful botanic branches Britain BRITAIN AND ANGLO-AMERICA buds Calyx Candolle carpels Cerasus cherry colour common corymbs Crataegus cultivated deciduous derived Drupe England Engravings Europe European European Ash feet in diameter feet in height Field Elm flavour flowers foliage France French fruit garden genus Geography and History GERMANY glabrous grafting green ground growing growth inches in diameter insects introduced into Britain Italy larvæ leaves LINNEUS locust Loudon Magnolia maple Michaux Miller's Dict mulberry native nearly North American Sylva numerous orange ornamental petals petioles planted Prodromus produced propagated racemes resembling ripens roots season seeds serrated shoots shrub situations smooth soil sometimes Species Plantarum Specific Characters Stamens Synonymes Syst thirty feet TORREY AND GRAY tree trunk tulip-tree Ulmus variety vine wild wood yellow young