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 3The Author, 1844 - Botany |
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Page 1265
... ground ; but the stool sends out fresh shoots every spring , which generally attain the height of 3 ft . or 4 ft . in the course of the summer , and make a fine appear . ance , from the large size of their leaves . The circumstance of a ...
... ground ; but the stool sends out fresh shoots every spring , which generally attain the height of 3 ft . or 4 ft . in the course of the summer , and make a fine appear . ance , from the large size of their leaves . The circumstance of a ...
Page 1286
... ground , it seldom fails to spring up with vigour the following spring , and continue flowering the greater part of the summer . In the Chelsea Bo- tanic Garden , there is a plant against the wall , which in six years has attained the ...
... ground , it seldom fails to spring up with vigour the following spring , and continue flowering the greater part of the summer . In the Chelsea Bo- tanic Garden , there is a plant against the wall , which in six years has attained the ...
Page 1318
... ground with the oaks and the walnuts , it is distinguished by no peculiarity of form : but in the lower part of the Carolinas and of Georgia , where it is found only in wet places , with the small magnolia or white bay ( Magnolia glaúca ) ...
... ground with the oaks and the walnuts , it is distinguished by no peculiarity of form : but in the lower part of the Carolinas and of Georgia , where it is found only in wet places , with the small magnolia or white bay ( Magnolia glaúca ) ...
Page 1337
... ground plan of a parterre laid out in this manner ; all the lines and dark parts of the figure being formed of box , in no part allowed to grow higher than 3 in . from the ground , and the finer lines being about 2 in . wide . The space ...
... ground plan of a parterre laid out in this manner ; all the lines and dark parts of the figure being formed of box , in no part allowed to grow higher than 3 in . from the ground , and the finer lines being about 2 in . wide . The space ...
Page 1339
... ground , In living box , by cunning artists traced ; And galleys trim , on no long voyage bound , But by their roots there ever anchor'd fast . " G. WEST . In modern Gardening , the tree box forms one of our most valuable evergreen ...
... ground , In living box , by cunning artists traced ; And galleys trim , on no long voyage bound , But by their roots there ever anchor'd fast . " G. WEST . In modern Gardening , the tree box forms one of our most valuable evergreen ...
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30 years planted álba Amer appears arboretum bark beneath Borrer Botanic Garden Bracteas branches buds Calyx Catkins Char climate of London colour deciduous diameter downy England Engravings figured in Eng figured in Sal Flitwick flowering in April Footstalks Forbes in Sal France fruit genus glabrous glaucous green ground grows hairy Hayne Abbild head height Henfield Hook Hort Horticultural Society's Garden Host Sal Huntingdon elm Identification insects introduced kind Koch Comm lanceolate larvæ leaves Lodd Loddiges male Michaux Michx mulberry native nearly nurseries Nutt obovate Ovary ovate peduncle petiole plants at Woburn poplar pubescent Pursh Pursh Fl Rees's Cyclo salictum seeds serrated sessile Sexes shoots shrub silkworms silky Smith Eng Smith in Rees's soil Spec species stalked Stamens Stigmas Stipules Suppl Synonymes Syst tree trunk 2 ft variety villous walnut white mulberry Willd willow Woburn Abbey wood young