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 1282
... according to the nature of the soil : they are then taken up , and the ground cropped for two or three years with turnips and other field crops ; after which the lavender plantation is renewed . The flowers are obliged to be either sold ...
... according to the nature of the soil : they are then taken up , and the ground cropped for two or three years with turnips and other field crops ; after which the lavender plantation is renewed . The flowers are obliged to be either sold ...
Page 1285
... according to Pliny , the Athenian matrons , during the festival in honour of Ceres , called Thesmophoria , when they were dressed in white robes , and enjoined to preserve the strictest chastity , strewed their beds with it . The seeds ...
... according to Pliny , the Athenian matrons , during the festival in honour of Ceres , called Thesmophoria , when they were dressed in white robes , and enjoined to preserve the strictest chastity , strewed their beds with it . The seeds ...
Page 1288
... according to the character of the order , 1 , and erect . Styles 2 , short . Stigmas obtuse . Fruit a utricle , invested by the calyx . Seed lens - shaped . Leaves alternate , generally lobed , bearing a friable , unctuous scurf . Flow ...
... according to the character of the order , 1 , and erect . Styles 2 , short . Stigmas obtuse . Fruit a utricle , invested by the calyx . Seed lens - shaped . Leaves alternate , generally lobed , bearing a friable , unctuous scurf . Flow ...
Page 1294
... According to some from a privative , and trepho , to nourish ; in allusion to the fruit , which , though in form like that of the buck wheat , is unfit for food ; according to others , para to athroos auxein , from its coming up quickly ...
... According to some from a privative , and trepho , to nourish ; in allusion to the fruit , which , though in form like that of the buck wheat , is unfit for food ; according to others , para to athroos auxein , from its coming up quickly ...
Page 1316
... according to Smith in Rees's Cyclopædia , Decandria Monogynia . Identification . Lin . Gen. , 551 .; Lin . Gen. , ed . Schreb . , No. 1599 .; Willd . Sp . Pl . , 4. p . 1112 .; Mill , Dict . v . 3 .; Rees's Cyclop . Derivation . From ...
... according to Smith in Rees's Cyclopædia , Decandria Monogynia . Identification . Lin . Gen. , 551 .; Lin . Gen. , ed . Schreb . , No. 1599 .; Willd . Sp . Pl . , 4. p . 1112 .; Mill , Dict . v . 3 .; Rees's Cyclop . Derivation . From ...
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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 flowers 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 oblong 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