Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with Their Propagation, Culture, Management, and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape Gardening; Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates Throughout the World, Volume 3 |
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Page 1263
... kind of garden culture which is applicable to ligneous plants is the best adapted for them . Besides , in the south of England , the stems of the species of both these genera assume a decidedly more ligneous character than they do in ...
... kind of garden culture which is applicable to ligneous plants is the best adapted for them . Besides , in the south of England , the stems of the species of both these genera assume a decidedly more ligneous character than they do in ...
Page 1265
... kind of plant , what- ever be its native country , in the open air , when they have an opportunity . We do not recommend the trial of scarce and valuable stove plants ; and from the palms , Orchidaceæ , and other endogenous orders or ...
... kind of plant , what- ever be its native country , in the open air , when they have an opportunity . We do not recommend the trial of scarce and valuable stove plants ; and from the palms , Orchidaceæ , and other endogenous orders or ...
Page 1293
... kind , by offering premiums for well grown specimens ; and for those who collect the greatest number of sorts . 3. T. POLY GAMUM Spr . The polygamous - sexed Goat Wheat . Identification . Spreng . Syst . Veg . , 2. p . 251 . Synonymes ...
... kind , by offering premiums for well grown specimens ; and for those who collect the greatest number of sorts . 3. T. POLY GAMUM Spr . The polygamous - sexed Goat Wheat . Identification . Spreng . Syst . Veg . , 2. p . 251 . Synonymes ...
Page 1314
... kind , and one that is much propagated in the London nurseries . It grows freely , has large handsome glossy leaves , and produces its purplish flowers , which have a most delightful fragrance , in great abundance . It is supposed to be ...
... kind , and one that is much propagated in the London nurseries . It grows freely , has large handsome glossy leaves , and produces its purplish flowers , which have a most delightful fragrance , in great abundance . It is supposed to be ...
Page 1340
... kind of skeleton wirework , or trellis - work , is put up for mural and architectural topiary work . Insects and Diseases . The box is very rarely attacked by insects , and has very few diseases . There is a proliferous growth of leaves ...
... kind of skeleton wirework , or trellis - work , is put up for mural and architectural topiary work . Insects and Diseases . The box is very rarely attacked by insects , and has very few diseases . There is a proliferous growth of leaves ...
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30 years planted acorns álba Amer appears arboretum bark beech beneath birch Borrer Botanic Garden Bracteas branches buds Calyx catkins Char circumference climate of London colour deciduous diameter downy Engravings female Flitwick foliage footstalks Forbes in Sal Forest France fruit genus girt glabrous glaucous green ground growing growth head height Henfield Hort Horticultural Horticultural Society's Garden Identification insect introduced kind Koch Comm lanceolate larvæ leaf leaves Lodd Loddiges Loddiges's London male Michaux Michx native nearly North nurseries obovate Ovary ovate peduncles petiole poplar produced Pursh Pursh Fl Rees's Cyclo seeds serrated sessile Sexes shoots shrub silky Smith Eng Smith in Rees's smooth soil Spec species specimens stalked Stamens Stigmas Stipules Synonymes Syst timber tree trunk 2 ft variety Willd Willow Woburn Woburn Abbey wood young
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Page 1958 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 1785 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
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Page 1962 - ... easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw ; because, besides their tenderness and loose lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years long, before which time straw becomes musty and hard.
Page 1829 - Martin• •* vnnt have seen, and our hands touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees...
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Page 1959 - Thrice twenty summers I have seen The sky grow bright, the forest green ; And many a wintry wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made ; And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name.
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