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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... twenty - five and thirty feet in height , with a large , well - proportioned head , and a trunk four feet in circumference , the lower branches sweeping the ground . It annually produces from three hundred and fifty to four hundred ...
... twenty - five and thirty feet in height , with a large , well - proportioned head , and a trunk four feet in circumference , the lower branches sweeping the ground . It annually produces from three hundred and fifty to four hundred ...
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... twenty or thirty years after being planted out , it is preferable to have those which have been propagated by layers from flowering trees of choice varieties . When propagated by layers , the shoots are put down in autumn , and require ...
... twenty or thirty years after being planted out , it is preferable to have those which have been propagated by layers from flowering trees of choice varieties . When propagated by layers , the shoots are put down in autumn , and require ...
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... twenty - seven to thirty pounds to a cubic foot . It is easily wrought , and is not liable to warp ; but when exposed to the alternations of moisture and dryness , it soon decays . For this reason the boards are used only in joinery in ...
... twenty - seven to thirty pounds to a cubic foot . It is easily wrought , and is not liable to warp ; but when exposed to the alternations of moisture and dryness , it soon decays . For this reason the boards are used only in joinery in ...
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... twenty - eight and a half feet high , with a trunk six inches in diameter , at a foot from the ground , with a head seventeen feet in diameter . In France , the largest Magnolia macrophylla is at Fromont , which in 1835 , measured twenty ...
... twenty - eight and a half feet high , with a trunk six inches in diameter , at a foot from the ground , with a head seventeen feet in diameter . In France , the largest Magnolia macrophylla is at Fromont , which in 1835 , measured twenty ...
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... twenty feet in height ; but those propagated from layers produce flowers in two or three years . Properties and Uses . The wood of this species is soft and light , weighing , when dry , twenty - six pounds to a cubic foot . Being ...
... twenty feet in height ; but those propagated from layers produce flowers in two or three years . Properties and Uses . The wood of this species is soft and light , weighing , when dry , twenty - six pounds to a cubic foot . Being ...
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