Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of Northeastern America |
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100 feet high Acer saccharum acorns Ailanthus alba alternate leaf-scars American elm aspen beautiful beech Betula black birch black oak black walnut branches bundle-scars butternut Buttonwood canoe birch catalpa chestnut chestnut oak close-grained coarse Colored plate conspicuous cultivated dark delicate distinguished downy English elm Europe European finish of houses fissures Florida flowers foliage forest found growing wild fruit genus gray bark green growth hard Hickory Hicoria honey locust hop hornbeam hornbeam horsechestnut Kentucky coffee tree larch large tree lateral buds leaves linden liquidamber magnolia mockernut moosewood native North Northeastern Norway maple nuts OAK Quercus pith planted poplar recent shoots red maple red oak reddish refers ridges sassafras scales scars shagbark shape shrub slender small tree smooth species specific name spring stems sugar maple summer sweet terminal buds trees in winter trunk tulip tree twigs Ulmus white ash white mulberry white oak willow wood is heavy yellow Yellow Birch
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Page 69 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Page 109 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Page 42 - Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love, delaying as the tender ash delays to clothe herself, when all the woods are green!
Page 10 - ... shade nor shelter. In spring the larch becomes green long before the native trees; and its green is so peculiar and vivid that, finding nothing to harmonize with it, wherever it comes forth, a disagreeable speck is produced. In summer, when all other trees are in their pride, it is of a dingy lifeless hue; in autumn of a spiritless unvaried yellow, and in winter it is still more lamentably distinguished from every other deciduous tree of the forest, for they seem only to sleep, but the larch...
Page 41 - I set off within an hour, and walked seven miles to Misselton (for the horses were not in the way) and ordered them. Now, what colour are ash-buds in March?" Is the man going mad? thought I. He is very like Don Quixote. "What colour are they, I say?" repeated he vehemently. "I am sure I don't know, sir," said I, with the meekness of ignorance.
Page 119 - And the plane-tree's speckled arms o'ershoot The swifter current that mines its root, Through whose shifting leaves, as you walk the hill, The quivering glimmer of sun and rill With a sudden flash on the eye is thrown, Like the ray that streams from the...
Page 156 - ... conspicuous. I then looked closely to see whether the peculiar forms could in any way be explained by the position of the leaves on the tree. I believe, however, that the cause is of a different nature, and has reference to the peculiar character of the bud. Each young leaf is, as in the family Magnoliacece generally, originally enclosed in and sheltered by the stipules of its predecessor. These are in Liriodendron oval, or in form resembling a shallow dish or spoon, so that when placed face...
Page 142 - The custom of making avenues of Lime-trees was adopted in the time of Lewis XIV., and accordingly the approaches to the residences of the French as well as the English gentry of that date were bordered with Lime-trees.