Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters and Live Fences: A Treatise on the Planting, Growth and Management of Hedge Plants for Country and Suburban HomesOrange Judd, 1908 - 139 páginas |
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... bushes in this country that are very old , but in England the record is fully two hundred years . Growing wild , the hawthorn is almost always found as a dense bush , somewhat like wild apples . is owing to the fact that cattle have ...
... bushes in this country that are very old , but in England the record is fully two hundred years . Growing wild , the hawthorn is almost always found as a dense bush , somewhat like wild apples . is owing to the fact that cattle have ...
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... bush . They are , everyone , admirable for hedge work . The honey locust deserves a few additional words owing to the peculiar beauty of its foliage . Its thorns are the most perfect weapons known in nature , but unfortunately they are ...
... bush . They are , everyone , admirable for hedge work . The honey locust deserves a few additional words owing to the peculiar beauty of its foliage . Its thorns are the most perfect weapons known in nature , but unfortunately they are ...
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... the natural absorption of mois- ture from the air . To water correctly , dig a hole by the side of every tree or bush , and pour in enough water to wet the roots thoroughly . This will require 28 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
... the natural absorption of mois- ture from the air . To water correctly , dig a hole by the side of every tree or bush , and pour in enough water to wet the roots thoroughly . This will require 28 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
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... bush of the same plant where it stands wild . It should have a broad base and rise to a round top - never to a sharp or pointed top- and equally never to a flattened top . The hawthorn , and particularly the buckthorn , submit to a very ...
... bush of the same plant where it stands wild . It should have a broad base and rise to a round top - never to a sharp or pointed top- and equally never to a flattened top . The hawthorn , and particularly the buckthorn , submit to a very ...
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... her natural tendency . Where there is a mere bunch of twigs starting instead of a good number of branches , remove part of them . This is always a possible mischief when we crowd a tree down to bush 32 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
... her natural tendency . Where there is a mere bunch of twigs starting instead of a good number of branches , remove part of them . This is always a possible mischief when we crowd a tree down to bush 32 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
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Página 123 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Página 91 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 121 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Página 122 - Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running. If the sequestered coolness of the wood tempt us to saunter into its checkered shade, we are saluted by the murmurous din of insects, the twitter of birds, the scrambling of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen beasts, all telling how populous is this seeming solitude. If we pause before a tree, or shrub, or plant, our cursory and half-abstracted glance detects a colony of various inhabitants.