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 1264
... smooth leaves and shoots , and the beauty of its large , solitary , axillary , nodding flowers , with bell - shaped violet or purple corollas , and its large , oval , pendent fruit . Plants should either be raised in autumn , and ...
... smooth leaves and shoots , and the beauty of its large , solitary , axillary , nodding flowers , with bell - shaped violet or purple corollas , and its large , oval , pendent fruit . Plants should either be raised in autumn , and ...
Page 1301
... smooth . The red he identifies with the L. , subgenus Euósmus Nutt . , Sássafras L .; and the white or smooth he con- siders a species belonging to the same subgenus , which he calls L. E. álbida Nutt . , and of which he has adduced the ...
... smooth . The red he identifies with the L. , subgenus Euósmus Nutt . , Sássafras L .; and the white or smooth he con- siders a species belonging to the same subgenus , which he calls L. E. álbida Nutt . , and of which he has adduced the ...
Page 1302
... smooth , and beautifully green ; but , when old , it becomes of " a greyish colour , and is chapped into deep cracks . On cutting into it , it exhibits a dark dull red , a good deal resembling the colour of Peruvian bark . " ( Michx . N ...
... smooth , and beautifully green ; but , when old , it becomes of " a greyish colour , and is chapped into deep cracks . On cutting into it , it exhibits a dark dull red , a good deal resembling the colour of Peruvian bark . " ( Michx . N ...
Page 1305
... smooth . Anthers unequally 4 - celled . Sexes polygamous . ( Nutt . Gen. , i . p . 259. ) Nuttall adds that this kind grows from 8 ft . to 12 ft . high , and that the branches are flexuous , grey , smooth , and so remarkably divaricated ...
... smooth . Anthers unequally 4 - celled . Sexes polygamous . ( Nutt . Gen. , i . p . 259. ) Nuttall adds that this kind grows from 8 ft . to 12 ft . high , and that the branches are flexuous , grey , smooth , and so remarkably divaricated ...
Page 1332
... smooth , verticillate branches give the plant a most singular appearance ; but with the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sprout forth at the end of the boughs , and a corymb of yellow flowers tips the extremity of ...
... smooth , verticillate branches give the plant a most singular appearance ; but with the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sprout forth at the end of the boughs , and a corymb of yellow flowers tips the extremity of ...
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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