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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... buds , which are compressed , and cov- ered with a soft and silvery down ; whereas , in the Magnolia umbrella they are prominent and rounded at the end . The leaves in a wild state are about thirty- five inches long , and nine or ten ...
... buds , which are compressed , and cov- ered with a soft and silvery down ; whereas , in the Magnolia umbrella they are prominent and rounded at the end . The leaves in a wild state are about thirty- five inches long , and nine or ten ...
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... buds , with ovaries somewhat distant , and in having anthers bursting inwards . In young trees , the leaves are from six to eight inches in length , and from three to four inches broad . The flowers , which put forth in March , April or ...
... buds , with ovaries somewhat distant , and in having anthers bursting inwards . In young trees , the leaves are from six to eight inches in length , and from three to four inches broad . The flowers , which put forth in March , April or ...
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... buds prematurely in spring , as they are very liable to be injured by frost , from which they should be protected by some kind of covering . The tree shows itself in its greatest beauty against a wall , where it can be pro- tected more ...
... buds prematurely in spring , as they are very liable to be injured by frost , from which they should be protected by some kind of covering . The tree shows itself in its greatest beauty against a wall , where it can be pro- tected more ...
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... of the tree . In the development of its leaves it differs from most other trees . The leaf - buds , in general , are composed of scales closely imbricated , which in spring are distended by the growth Liriodendron tulipifera, ...
... of the tree . In the development of its leaves it differs from most other trees . The leaf - buds , in general , are composed of scales closely imbricated , which in spring are distended by the growth Liriodendron tulipifera, ...
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... bud of each shoot swells considerably before it gives birth to the leaf . It forms an oval en- velope , containing the young leaf , which is produced to the light as soon as it has acquired sufficient strength to endure the influences ...
... bud of each shoot swells considerably before it gives birth to the leaf . It forms an oval en- velope , containing the young leaf , which is produced to the light as soon as it has acquired sufficient strength to endure the influences ...
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