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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... quite hardy . The difficulty was largely with conditions of the soil . was always requisite . Planters throw up ridges on which the plants were set . These ridges , twenty inches high , were rapidly prepared with plows , and the plants ...
... quite hardy . The difficulty was largely with conditions of the soil . was always requisite . Planters throw up ridges on which the plants were set . These ridges , twenty inches high , were rapidly prepared with plows , and the plants ...
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... hardy , and although the foliage gives it a more delicate appearance , the thorns are strong and the wood is stiff ... entirely unsatis- factory , yet there are more short lines of this fence still in existence than of any other ...
... hardy , and although the foliage gives it a more delicate appearance , the thorns are strong and the wood is stiff ... entirely unsatis- factory , yet there are more short lines of this fence still in existence than of any other ...
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... quite hardy at the north , while the white - fruited is entirely hardy as far north as New York . I find its foliage blisters somewhat and the ends of the twigs are sometimes killed in central New York . I can hardly conceive a pyra ...
... quite hardy at the north , while the white - fruited is entirely hardy as far north as New York . I find its foliage blisters somewhat and the ends of the twigs are sometimes killed in central New York . I can hardly conceive a pyra ...
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... entirely hardy as far north as New York . Most of the varieties are hardy as far north as Albany . One variety on my lawns I find objectionable , owing to 40 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
... entirely hardy as far north as New York . Most of the varieties are hardy as far north as Albany . One variety on my lawns I find objectionable , owing to 40 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
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... entirely hardy in central New York , but nearly so . growth is compact and round . Its ( 2 ) Two other small - growing varieties of arbor - vitæ with golden foliage are the Hovey and the George Peabody . These are capital little trees ...
... entirely hardy in central New York , but nearly so . growth is compact and round . Its ( 2 ) Two other small - growing varieties of arbor - vitæ with golden foliage are the Hovey and the George Peabody . These are capital little trees ...
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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.