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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... growing greatly in importance . The people are waking up to the neces- sity of an almost universal use of such protections against the drying effect of winds and the breaking force of storms . Ornamental hedges are also grow- ing in ...
... growing greatly in importance . The people are waking up to the neces- sity of an almost universal use of such protections against the drying effect of winds and the breaking force of storms . Ornamental hedges are also grow- ing in ...
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... grown warm over many a glori- ous hillside in Massachusetts where Mother Nature has thrown up her granite walls and lifted her wind- breaks , and run charming hedge lines , and dotted the trees just right , in groups and in singles ...
... grown warm over many a glori- ous hillside in Massachusetts where Mother Nature has thrown up her granite walls and lifted her wind- breaks , and run charming hedge lines , and dotted the trees just right , in groups and in singles ...
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... grow with equal vigor or similar habits . One will rise almost as direct as a Normandy poplar and the next sprawl out or show a propensity for weeping . There are special advantages about the three - thorned Gleditschia or honey locust ...
... grow with equal vigor or similar habits . One will rise almost as direct as a Normandy poplar and the next sprawl out or show a propensity for weeping . There are special advantages about the three - thorned Gleditschia or honey locust ...
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... grown to a hight of six feet the base should be at least four feet . All pruning must be directed to the establishment of this pyramidal form . Supposing the young plants to be cut back to five or six inches from the ground at the first ...
... grown to a hight of six feet the base should be at least four feet . All pruning must be directed to the establishment of this pyramidal form . Supposing the young plants to be cut back to five or six inches from the ground at the first ...
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... grown . The plants should be set two or two and one - half feet apart . Growth will gradually close up the spaces so as to present a nearly solid wall at the base . A close park can be created of this sort , as a deer enclosure , or for ...
... grown . The plants should be set two or two and one - half feet apart . Growth will gradually close up the spaces so as to present a nearly solid wall at the base . A close park can be created of this sort , as a deer enclosure , or for ...
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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.