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 2 |
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Page 501
... probably prove hardy ; and which will be found described below . E. glaber Roxb . , a tree growing to the height of 15 ft . , in Chittagong , in the East Indies . E. fimbriatus Wall . , a tree from the Sewalfik Mountains , in India ...
... probably prove hardy ; and which will be found described below . E. glaber Roxb . , a tree growing to the height of 15 ft . , in Chittagong , in the East Indies . E. fimbriatus Wall . , a tree from the Sewalfik Mountains , in India ...
Page 505
... probably , a corruption of the word holy , as Turner in his Herbal calls it Holy , and Holy Tree , probably from its being used to comme- morate the holy time of Christmas , not only in houses , but in churches . The German name ...
... probably , a corruption of the word holy , as Turner in his Herbal calls it Holy , and Holy Tree , probably from its being used to comme- morate the holy time of Christmas , not only in houses , but in churches . The German name ...
Page 511
... probably adopted for deco- rating the churches at Christmas , because holly was used in the great festival of the Saturnalia , which occurred about that period , and it was the policy of the early fathers of the church to assimilate the ...
... probably adopted for deco- rating the churches at Christmas , because holly was used in the great festival of the Saturnalia , which occurred about that period , and it was the policy of the early fathers of the church to assimilate the ...
Page 519
... probably is the same as I. angustifolia of Willd . No. 6. I. nepalensis Spreng . ( the I. elliptica of D. Don ) is a Nepal shrub , growing to the height of 8 ft . As all these species are evergreens , they would form a most desirable ...
... probably is the same as I. angustifolia of Willd . No. 6. I. nepalensis Spreng . ( the I. elliptica of D. Don ) is a Nepal shrub , growing to the height of 8 ft . As all these species are evergreens , they would form a most desirable ...
Page 526
... probably be obtained from Italy , or from the French colo- nial garden at Algiers . Z. nitida Roxb . is a native of China , introduced in 1822. The fruit is 1 in . long , pale yellow when ripe , and edible ; the root produces ...
... probably be obtained from Italy , or from the French colo- nial garden at Algiers . Z. nitida Roxb . is a native of China , introduced in 1822. The fruit is 1 in . long , pale yellow when ripe , and edible ; the root produces ...
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Page 1019 - On Christmas eve the bells were rung, On Christmas eve the mass was sung: * That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.
Page 896 - He then pledges him in a curious toast: the company follow his example with all the other oxen, addressing each by his name. This being finished, the large cake is produced, and, with much ceremony, put on the horn of the first ox, through the hole above mentioned.
Page 958 - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...
Page 1202 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave; The lilac various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Page 782 - But in this delicious garden of Negaaristan, the eye and the smell are not the only senses regaled by the presence of .the Rose. The ear is enchanted by the wild and beautiful notes of multitudes of nightingales, whose warblings seem to increase in melody and softness with the unfolding of their favorite flowers. Here, indeed, the stranger is more powerfully reminded that he is in the genuine country of the nightingale and the Rose.
Page 896 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full! caps full! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Page 1099 - ... and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does this rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this plant forms a new genus, I have chosen for it the name of Andromeda...
Page 1099 - This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant.
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Page 753 - England by Master Nicholas Lete, a worthy merchant of London, and a great lover of flowers, from Constantinople, which (as we hear) was first brought thither from Syria...