 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 432 pages
...defect in the elm; for strong characters are a great source of picturesque beauty. This defect, however, appears chiefly in "the skeleton of the elm. In full...grand masses of light. In this respect, it is superior both to the oak and the ash. Nor is its foliage, shadowing as it is, of the heavy kind. Its leaves... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 436 pages
...characters are a great source of picturesque beauty. This defect, however, appears chiefly in jthe skeleton of the elm. In full foliage, its character...grand masses of light. In this respect, it is superior both to the oak and the ash. Nor is its foliage, shadowing as it is, of the heavy kind. Its leaves... | |
 | Book - 1837 - 232 pages
...strongly marked with its peculiar character, can never be mistaken for the Elm. This defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the Elm. In full...grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior both to the oak and the ash." The Elm is the first tree that salutes the early Spring with its light... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...strongly marked with its peculiar character, can never be mistaken for the Elm. This defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the Elm. In full...grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior both to the oak and the ash. The Elm is the first tree that salutes the early Spring with its light... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...strongly marked with its peculiar character, can never be mistaken for the Kim. This defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the Elm. In full...grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior both to the oak and the ash. The Elm is the first tree that salutes the early Spring with its light... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 794 pages
...defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the elm : in full foliage, its character is more marked. No tree is better adapted to receive grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior both to the oak and the ash. Nor is its foliage, shadowing as it is, of the heavy kind. Its leaves... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 784 pages
...in the elm ; for strong characters are a great source of picturesque beauty. This defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the elm : in full foliage, its character is more marked. No tree is better adapted to receive grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 536 pages
...defect in the elm, for strong characters are a great source of picturesque beauty. This defect however appears chiefly in the skeleton of the elm : in full foliage its character is more marked. No tree is better adapted to receive grand masses of light. In this respect it is superior... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Trees - 1846 - 548 pages
...defect in the elm; for strong characters are a great source of picturesque beauty. This defect, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the elm; in full foliage, its character is more marked. No tree is better adapted to receive grand masses of light. In this respect, it is superior... | |
 | John Wood (jun.) - Color - 1850 - 78 pages
...when it is rough and old, it may easily, at a little distance, be mistaken for one. This, however, appears chiefly in the skeleton of the elm ; in full...is better adapted to receive grand masses of light ; it commonly hangs loosely, and is in general very picturesque. The spray of the elm shoots alternately... | |
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This defect, however, appears chiefly in "the skeleton of the elm. In full foliage, its character is better marked. No tree is better adapted to receive grand masses of light. In this respect, it is superior both to the oak and the ash. 
