Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation, with a Description, and the Botanical and Popular Names of All the Indigenous Trees of the United States, Both Evergreen and Deciduous, Together with Notes on a Large Number of the Most Valuable Exotic SpeciesOrange Judd Company, 1908 - 299 páginas |
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... bracts , some- times three inches long , yellowish or pure white , often tinged with red . Flowers numerous in large heads . Fruit a little lar- ger than in the last , of a bright crimson color . This species resembles the eastern ...
... bracts , some- times three inches long , yellowish or pure white , often tinged with red . Flowers numerous in large heads . Fruit a little lar- ger than in the last , of a bright crimson color . This species resembles the eastern ...
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... , but there are two evergreen species in South America , and one in New Zealand . Sterile flowers in small heads , on drooping peduncles , the fertile ones in pairs on the summit of a scaly - bracted peduncle . The 144 PRACTICAL FORESTRY .
... , but there are two evergreen species in South America , and one in New Zealand . Sterile flowers in small heads , on drooping peduncles , the fertile ones in pairs on the summit of a scaly - bracted peduncle . The 144 PRACTICAL FORESTRY .
Página 145
... bracted peduncle . The fruit , a pair of triangular - shaped nuts , enclosed in a prickly involucre . Fazus ferruginea , Ait . - American Beech . - Leaves oblong- ovate , silky on both sides when young , becoming smooth with age ...
... bracted peduncle . The fruit , a pair of triangular - shaped nuts , enclosed in a prickly involucre . Fazus ferruginea , Ait . - American Beech . - Leaves oblong- ovate , silky on both sides when young , becoming smooth with age ...
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... bracted spiked heads . The flowers are very small , and have neither calyx or corolla , but sterile ones with numerous stamens . Heads of sterile flowers sessile , crowded , those of fertile ones on a long drooping peduncle . Seeds ...
... bracted spiked heads . The flowers are very small , and have neither calyx or corolla , but sterile ones with numerous stamens . Heads of sterile flowers sessile , crowded , those of fertile ones on a long drooping peduncle . Seeds ...
Página 177
... bracts , each enclosed in a sac - like involucre , which enlarges and forms an imbricated strobile , like that of the common Hop . Slender tree with very hard wood . Ostrya Virginita , Willd . — American Hop - Hornbeam , Iron - wood ...
... bracts , each enclosed in a sac - like involucre , which enlarges and forms an imbricated strobile , like that of the common Hop . Slender tree with very hard wood . Ostrya Virginita , Willd . — American Hop - Hornbeam , Iron - wood ...
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Página 227 - Leaves lanceolate and lance-linear, pointed and tapering at each end, serrate, smooth (except on the petioles and midrib), and green on both sides; stipules small, deciduous; scales short and rounded, villous; stamens three to six ; pods mostly short-ovate.
Página 291 - ... Researches of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; but I may here observe that they consist of three cylindrical boxes of gold, pewter (or some mixed metal), and iron, which were found cased within one another, and placed in a chamber cut in a large block of stone at the foundation of the pile. The gold box is about three inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, filled with a black dirty substance like mud, half liquid, and mixed up with small pieces of glass or amber ; which would suggest...