 | Charles Stedman Newhall - Trees - 1890 - 282 pages
...; but an old couplet, said to have been found inscribed on a poplar plank, teaches differently : " Though ' heart of Oak ' be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I'll see him out." Fig. 46. — Downy-leaved Poplar, River Cottonwood, Swamp Cottonwood. P. heterophylla,... | |
 | Charles Stedman Newhall - Trees - 1891 - 274 pages
...; but an old couplet, said to have been found inscribed on a poplar plank, teaches differently : " Though ' heart of Oak ' be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I '11 see him out." Fig. 46. — Downy-leaved Poplar, River Cottonwood, Swamp Cottonwood. P. heterophylla, L. Leaves, SIMPLE... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Trees - 1900 - 580 pages
...Cottonwood, Popiilvs heterophylla. ' Balsam, Populus balsamifera. Leaves 3' to 5' long, i^' to 3' broad. Though heart of oak be e'er so stout Keep me dry, and I'll see him out. — Old inscription on a poplar plank. The wood of this tree under the name of Black... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Trees - 1900 - 658 pages
...Fruiting Anient of Swamp CoHonwooJ Balsam, Populus balsamifera. Leaves 3' to 5' long, i%' to 3' broad. Though heart of oak be e'er so stout Keep me dry, and I'll see him out. — Old inseription on a poplar plank. The wood of this tree under the name of Black... | |
 | 1865 - 818 pages
...flooring, it requires to be seasoned some two or three years. He considers the old distich quite correct, said to be inscribed on a poplar plank — " Though heart of oak be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I'll see him out." Whether these poplars were planted in commemoration of some particular event, we... | |
 | George Simonds Boulger - Trees - 1907 - 310 pages
...this is said to be only true when it is alternately wet and dry, according to the old saying — " Though heart of Oak be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I'll see him out." When impregnated with a saccharine 'solution by the new method known as Powellising,... | |
 | 1837 - 610 pages
...unexposed to the atmosphere or to water, will hold out remarkably well : witness the old distich — " Though heart of oak be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I'll see him out." But the citizen ought to love the poplar, for the poplar loves the citizen. It has... | |
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... old distich, said to be inscribed on a poplar plank, — ' Though heart of oak be e'er so stout, Keep me dry, and I'll see him out,' may be considered as strictly correct"* •Loudon, Vol. 
