The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 30
... fruit of a grate ful flavour , called anona , which signifies a mess , or dish of food , to be eaten with a spoon . Asimina was Latinized by M. Adanson , from a word of Canadian origin of a doubtful meaning . Orchidocarpum was probably ...
... fruit of a grate ful flavour , called anona , which signifies a mess , or dish of food , to be eaten with a spoon . Asimina was Latinized by M. Adanson , from a word of Canadian origin of a doubtful meaning . Orchidocarpum was probably ...
Página 34
... Fruit white . Those recognized by Messrs . De Candoll 2. B. V. VIOLACEA . Fruit violet - coloured . 3. B. v . PURPUREA . 4. B. V. NIGRA . Fruit purple . Fruit black ; leaves oblong ; ciliately serrated ; serratures few . Fruit red ...
... Fruit white . Those recognized by Messrs . De Candoll 2. B. V. VIOLACEA . Fruit violet - coloured . 3. B. v . PURPUREA . 4. B. V. NIGRA . Fruit purple . Fruit black ; leaves oblong ; ciliately serrated ; serratures few . Fruit red ...
Página 56
... fruits , must have attracted the attention of aboriginal man , long before other fruits of less bril- liancy , though more nutritious , and grateful to his senses . The " golden apples " of the heathens , and the " forbidden fruit " of ...
... fruits , must have attracted the attention of aboriginal man , long before other fruits of less bril- liancy , though more nutritious , and grateful to his senses . The " golden apples " of the heathens , and the " forbidden fruit " of ...
Página 58
... fruit just set , and in golden fruit , inviting the " hand to pull and the palate to taste , ' -it is hardly possible to conceive or imagine any object more delightful . There is something , too , peculiar in the organization of the fruit ...
... fruit just set , and in golden fruit , inviting the " hand to pull and the palate to taste , ' -it is hardly possible to conceive or imagine any object more delightful . There is something , too , peculiar in the organization of the fruit ...
Página 59
... fruit , and a thin rind , which separates spontaneously from the pulp . It is cultivated in China , where the fruit is chiefly consumed in presents to the officers of state , whence its name . Its sin- gularity consists in the rind so ...
... fruit , and a thin rind , which separates spontaneously from the pulp . It is cultivated in China , where the fruit is chiefly consumed in presents to the officers of state , whence its name . Its sin- gularity consists in the rind so ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
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