A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts, Volume 1 |
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... height of only thirty or forty feet ; others rise to seventy or a hundred . Judiciously grouped in planting , they are capable of giving to a level plain the appearance of any desired inequality of surface . The tall pines , elms and ...
... height of only thirty or forty feet ; others rise to seventy or a hundred . Judiciously grouped in planting , they are capable of giving to a level plain the appearance of any desired inequality of surface . The tall pines , elms and ...
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... height . When a belt of trees is once established , in such a situation , it should be kept undisturbed as long as it will serve the purpose of protecting the trees within , though it may be of no other value . A course altogether ...
... height . When a belt of trees is once established , in such a situation , it should be kept undisturbed as long as it will serve the purpose of protecting the trees within , though it may be of no other value . A course altogether ...
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... height than any other trees known . The white pine is much the tallest of our native trees . Some are still found in New England reaching nearly to 200 feet ; and it is not many years since pines were standing in the eastern part of New ...
... height than any other trees known . The white pine is much the tallest of our native trees . Some are still found in New England reaching nearly to 200 feet ; and it is not many years since pines were standing in the eastern part of New ...
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... height . In some , as the hemlock , the yew and the ginkgo tree , the branches have no regular order , but in most , and especially in the firs and pines , they are disposed circularly , in imperfect whorls , around the * L. C. Richard ...
... height . In some , as the hemlock , the yew and the ginkgo tree , the branches have no regular order , but in most , and especially in the firs and pines , they are disposed circularly , in imperfect whorls , around the * L. C. Richard ...
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... height . The root , in most species , penetrates at once , in the first or second year , to the depth of one or two feet , but never to a much greater depth . The evergreens are transplanted with less facility and success than most ...
... height . The root , in most species , penetrates at once , in the first or second year , to the depth of one or two feet , but never to a much greater depth . The evergreens are transplanted with less facility and success than most ...
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acorn acuminate acute aments anthers astringent autumn axil bark base beautiful beneath berries birch bracts branches branchlets broad brown buds calyx catkins chestnut chestnut oak color corolla corymbs covered cultivated cymes dark deciduous diameter dots downy drupe England erect Europe feet high Figured in Michaux five fleshy foliage footstalks forest four fruit genus glaucous gray grayish green ground growing growth hairy half an inch height hickory inches long lanceolate larch leaf leaves lobes Maple Massachusetts mid-rib native nearly numerous oblong obtuse ornamental ovary ovate panicles petals petioles pistil pitch pine plants Plate purple racemes recent shoots reddish resemblance roots roundish scales scarlet seeds sepals serrate sessile short shrubs side slender small tree smooth soil sometimes species stalks stamens stem stigmas stipules style surface Sylva tapering terminal timber trunk usually variety veins white oak willow wood yellow yellowish young
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Page 244 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 127 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower With...
Page 10 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still : The Willow, worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The...
Page 241 - ... cabinet and toy making, and for boarded floors; for which last purpose it is well adapted, from its whiteness, and the facility with which it is scoured ; and, also, from the difficulty with which it catches fire, and the slowness with which it burns. In these respects, it is the very reverse of deal. Poplar, like other soft woods, is generally considered not durable; but this is only the case when it is exposed to the...
Page 160 - ... 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 96 - The bark upon the body is slightly furrowed, smooth to the touch and very white when the tree stands exposed. The wood is reddish, somewhat odorous, very light, soft and fine-grained : in the northern part of the United States and in Canada it holds the first place for durability.
Page 522 - It is also remarkable for the irritability of its stamens, which, when the filament is touched on the inside with the point of a pin, or any other hard instrument, bend forward towards the pistil, touch the stigma with the anther, remain curved for a short time, and then partially recover their erect position : this is best seen in warm, dry we.ither.
Page 4 - At Guiana, in South America, within five degrees of the line, the inhabitants living amid immense forests, a century ago, were obliged to alleviate the severity of the cold, by evening fires. Even the duration of the rainy season 'has been shortened by the clearing of the country, and the warmth is so increased, that a fire now would be deemed an annoyance. It thunders continually in the woods, rarely in the cultivated parts.
Page 5 - Atienza. The first cylinders were constructed by Gonzalo de Velosa, and the first sugar mills built by the Spaniards at that time were worked by hydraulic wheels and not by horses. M. de Humboldt, who examined the will of Cortes, informs us that the conqueror had left sugar plantations near Cuyoacan, in the valley of Mexico, where now, owing, it is supposed, to the cutting down of the trees, the cold is too great for sugar cane or any other tropical production to thrive.
Page 445 - Indians for making arrows and pipe stems ; and it is thence termed by the Canadian voyagers Bois de fleche. Its berries, which are about the size of a pea, are the finest fruit in the country ; and are used by the Cree Indians both in a fresh and in a dried state. They " make excellent puddings, very little inferior to plum-pudding.