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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acuminate Amer apple arboretum axillary bark beneath berries Bollwyller Botanic Garden Bracteas branches Brit British gardens buds calyx Carpels Char cherry colour common common hawthorn Corolla corymbs Crataegus cultivated deciduous diameter Dict Don's Mill England Engravings Europe evergreen flowering in June flowers forms France fruit genus glabrous grafted green ground growing hairy half-hardy hardy heaths hedges height Hort Horticultural Society's Garden Identification introduced June and July lanceolate leaflets leaves Legume ligneous Lindl lobes Lodd Loddiges London Horticultural Society London nurseries Michx mountains native of North Nepal North America oblong ornamental ovate panicles pear pedicels Peduncles petals petioles plants prickles Prod produced propagated pubescent purple Pursh Fl racemes rose seeds Sepals serrated shoots shrub Siberia smooth soil sorts Spec species Stamens stem Synonymes Syst tomentose tree trunk variety wall wild Willd wood
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Page 839 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 699 - Nasus, chief of the Hussites, was so touched with this spectacle, that he received the young supplicants, regaled them with cherries and other fruits, and promised them to spare the city. The children returned crowned with leaves, holding cherries, and crying...
Page 786 - ... stems. *= ^ =* #= 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 757 - 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...
Page 837 - ... alder. We have seen it growing under the shelter, though not under the shade, of some stately oak ; embodying the idea of beauty protected by strength. Our eyes have often caught the motion of the busy mill-wheel over which its blossoms were clustering. We have seen it growing grandly on the green of the village school, the great object of general attraction to the young urchins who played in idle groups about its roots, and perhaps the only thing remaining to be recognised when the schoolboy...
Page 1105 - As I contemplated it I could not help thinking of Andromeda as described by the poets; and the more I meditated upon their descriptions, the more applicable they seemed to the little plant before me, so that if these writers had had it in view, they could scarcely have contrived a more apposite fable.
Page 786 - I was struck with the appearance of two rose-trees, full fourteen feet high, laden with thousands of flowers, in every degree of expansion, and of a bloom and delicacy of scent that imbued the whole atmosphere with the most exquisite perfume.
Page 1105 - 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.
Page 699 - ... ripe, is gathered by the respective proprietors of the land on which it grows : and, when these are anxious to preserve the fruit of any particular tree, it is, as it were, tabooed ; that is, a wisp of straw is tied in a conspicuous part to one of the branches, as vines by the...
Page 905 - June, are well knit, and consequently fit for the reception of its eggs, which it lays in the eyes, one only in each, by introducing its long ovipositor between the leaves of the calyx, which form a tent above it that effectually shields it from the inclemency of the weather, or any other casualty. As soon as the egg hatches, the little grub gnaws a hole in the crown of the apple, and soon buries itself in its substance ; and it is worthy of remark that the rind of the apple, as if to afford every...