The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
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... inches in length , and the roots , like all the species of the magnolia , are branched , and sparingly supplied with fibres . The bark of the trunk is grayish , and of a bitterish taste . The leaves are five or six inches long ...
... inches in length , and the roots , like all the species of the magnolia , are branched , and sparingly supplied with fibres . The bark of the trunk is grayish , and of a bitterish taste . The leaves are five or six inches long ...
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... inches broad , and are produced at the extremity of the last year's shoots . They have six white concave petals ... Long Island , New York , nearly forty feet in height , and six or eight inches in diameter , which con- tained about ...
... inches broad , and are produced at the extremity of the last year's shoots . They have six white concave petals ... Long Island , New York , nearly forty feet in height , and six or eight inches in diameter , which con- tained about ...
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... inches long , and seven or eight inches broad . They are thin , oval , and acuminate at both extremities . They are often disposed in rays at the extremity of vigorous shoots ; and these display a surface of two and a half feet in ...
... inches long , and seven or eight inches broad . They are thin , oval , and acuminate at both extremities . They are often disposed in rays at the extremity of vigorous shoots ; and these display a surface of two and a half feet in ...
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... inch in diameter . The flowers emit a fragrant odour , and their beauty is heightened by the luxu- riant foliage which surrounds them . The fruit is about four inches long , nearly cylindrical , and of a vivid rose - colour when.
... inch in diameter . The flowers emit a fragrant odour , and their beauty is heightened by the luxu- riant foliage which surrounds them . The fruit is about four inches long , nearly cylindrical , and of a vivid rose - colour when.
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... inches in diameter , at a foot from the ground , with a head seventeen feet ... inches in diameter . Soil and Situation . In its natural habitat this species ... long duration . The only mode of general adoption is , to raise it from ...
... inches in diameter , at a foot from the ground , with a head seventeen feet ... inches in diameter . Soil and Situation . In its natural habitat this species ... long duration . The only mode of general adoption is , to raise it from ...
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