The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described ... Illustrated by Numerous EngravingsHarper & brothers, 1851 - 520 páginas |
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... beautiful work on " British Forest Trees , " and to " L'Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale , " par M. F. André - Michaux . As the preparation of a treatise like the present necessarily requires time to be con ...
... beautiful work on " British Forest Trees , " and to " L'Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale , " par M. F. André - Michaux . As the preparation of a treatise like the present necessarily requires time to be con ...
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... beautiful column : and , from its dark - green foliage , silvered over with milk - white flowers , it is seen at a great distance . The roots are branched , and yet but sparingly supplied with fibres . The bark of the trunk is smooth ...
... beautiful column : and , from its dark - green foliage , silvered over with milk - white flowers , it is seen at a great distance . The roots are branched , and yet but sparingly supplied with fibres . The bark of the trunk is smooth ...
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... beautiful foliage and sweet - scented flow- ers . It sometimes attains an elevation of forty feet , with a diameter of ten or twelve inches ; but it does not ordinarily exceed fifteen or twenty feet in height , either in Britain or this ...
... beautiful foliage and sweet - scented flow- ers . It sometimes attains an elevation of forty feet , with a diameter of ten or twelve inches ; but it does not ordinarily exceed fifteen or twenty feet in height , either in Britain or this ...
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... beautiful rose - colour , and usually contains from fifty to sixty pale - red seed . Varieties . In 1836 , at Desio , near Milan , in Italy , several young hybrid plants were raised from seeds which had been fecundated with the pollen ...
... beautiful rose - colour , and usually contains from fifty to sixty pale - red seed . Varieties . In 1836 , at Desio , near Milan , in Italy , several young hybrid plants were raised from seeds which had been fecundated with the pollen ...
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... of the young shoots . The fruit is oval , three or four inches long , and , like the Magnola umbrella , of a beautiful rose - colour , when ripe . It differs from the fruit of the other species , by a little 3 Magnolia auriculata, ...
... of the young shoots . The fruit is oval , three or four inches long , and , like the Magnola umbrella , of a beautiful rose - colour , when ripe . It differs from the fruit of the other species , by a little 3 Magnolia auriculata, ...
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