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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... wood is very durable , and said to be more valuable in shipbuilding than live oak . It is otherwise of great use because of taking on a fine polish for furniture . The Indians found it so elastic and tough for bows that they called it ...
... wood is very durable , and said to be more valuable in shipbuilding than live oak . It is otherwise of great use because of taking on a fine polish for furniture . The Indians found it so elastic and tough for bows that they called it ...
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... wood is stiff from the outset . A very young hedge of this sort will turn animals . About 1870 the honey locust was considered just the thing we had long sought after and needed . It was planted in the eastern states much more freely ...
... wood is stiff from the outset . A very young hedge of this sort will turn animals . About 1870 the honey locust was considered just the thing we had long sought after and needed . It was planted in the eastern states much more freely ...
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... wood should be cut away by this first pruning . After the first year , the object of pruning should be to broaden the base about one - third as fast as the top is raised . When the fence is grown to a hight of six feet the base should ...
... wood should be cut away by this first pruning . After the first year , the object of pruning should be to broaden the base about one - third as fast as the top is raised . When the fence is grown to a hight of six feet the base should ...
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... wood , and the thorns secure them in place , when bent and woven , without tying or any other sort of fastening . The next year the hedge started with an average hight of six inches from the ground , or the stems thus lying laterally ...
... wood , and the thorns secure them in place , when bent and woven , without tying or any other sort of fastening . The next year the hedge started with an average hight of six inches from the ground , or the stems thus lying laterally ...
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... there will be a growth put forth that will not have time to ripen its wood , and you will get winter- killing of even very hardy plants . The shape of a deciduous hedge should be about that 30 HEDGES , WINDBREAKS , SHELTERS , ETC.
... there will be a growth put forth that will not have time to ripen its wood , and you will get winter- killing of even very hardy plants . The shape of a deciduous hedge should be about that 30 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.