The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
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... Properties and Uses . Besides the value of the Magnolia conspicua as an ornamental plant or tree , the Chinese pickle the flower - buds , after having removed their calyxes , and use them for flavouring rice . Medicinally , the seeds ...
... Properties and Uses . Besides the value of the Magnolia conspicua as an ornamental plant or tree , the Chinese pickle the flower - buds , after having removed their calyxes , and use them for flavouring rice . Medicinally , the seeds ...
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... properties affected by the circumstances in which it is placed . But , according to M. Du Hamel , it neither thrives in France on a dry , arid , gravelly soil , nor on one with a subsoil of clay , or marl . The most rapid - growing ...
... properties affected by the circumstances in which it is placed . But , according to M. Du Hamel , it neither thrives in France on a dry , arid , gravelly soil , nor on one with a subsoil of clay , or marl . The most rapid - growing ...
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... Properties and Uses . The timber of the Liriodendron tulipifera , though classed among light woods , is yet , much heavier than that of the common poplar ; its grain is equally fine , but more compact , and the wood is easily wrought ...
... Properties and Uses . The timber of the Liriodendron tulipifera , though classed among light woods , is yet , much heavier than that of the common poplar ; its grain is equally fine , but more compact , and the wood is easily wrought ...
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... drops of laudanum . These properties were well known to the American Indians , who employed the bark of the roots of this tree for the cure of intermittents . " If Fever's fervid rage Glow'd in the boiling veins 29 LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA .
... drops of laudanum . These properties were well known to the American Indians , who employed the bark of the roots of this tree for the cure of intermittents . " If Fever's fervid rage Glow'd in the boiling veins 29 LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA .
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... Properties and Uses . The wood of the Annona triloba is spongy , extremely soft , destitute of strength , and applicable to no use in the mechanic arts . parts of the tree have a rank , if not a fetid , smell ; and the fruit is relished ...
... Properties and Uses . The wood of the Annona triloba is spongy , extremely soft , destitute of strength , and applicable to no use in the mechanic arts . parts of the tree have a rank , if not a fetid , smell ; and the fruit is relished ...
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