The Book of Evergreens: A Practical Treatise on the Coniferæ, Or Cone-bearing PlantsOrange Judd, 1868 - 429 páginas |
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The Book of Evergreens, a Practical Treatise on the Coniferae, Or Cone ... Josiah Hoopes Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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50 feet Abies acute aments appearance Arbor Vitæ bark beautiful bracts branches branchlets bright green Cedar climate Common Juniper common Yew compact Cones conical Coniferæ Conifers coriaceous Cotyledons Cryptomeria cultivation Cupressus Cypress dark green deciduous dense diameter distinct drooping dwarf elevation Endl England entirely hardy evergreen exceedingly excelsa feet high feet in height Flowers foliage frequently fruit gardens genus glaucous globular Gordon green color ground growing growth handsome Hort imbricated inches long incurved Japan Japonica Juniper Larch leaves light linear Loddiges Loud Loudon membranaceous mountains native northern Norway Spruce numerous Nuttall obtuse orientalis ornamental tree ovate peculiar pendula Picea Pinetum Pinus prove recurved remarkably resembles resinous rigid says scales Seeds sessile sheaths shrub Siebold Silver Silver Fir slender smooth soil solitary species specimens spreading Spruce Taxus tender Thuja timber tion Tsuga variegata variety whorls wing winter wood young plants
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Página 81 - Fendler's N. Mex. 831. Male aments cylindrical, several inches long. PINUS CONTORTA, DOUGL., " is quite abundant on the crest and slopes of dry subalpine ridges, forming the principal part of the forest there, and extending to near the snow line ; a symmetrical tree of rapid growth, 30 or 40 feet high, with slim and tapering trunk a foot in diameter, a smoothish grayish-brown bark, detached in thin scales, and tough but coarse wood, which is liable to warp, and rarely cut into boards.
Página 406 - ... exogenous trees, yet, unlike the former tribe, the wood of the tree is perfectly free from resin. The Ginko tree is so great a botanical curiosity, and is so singularly beautiful when clad with its fern-like foliage, that it is strikingly adapted to add ornament and interest to the pleasure ground. As the foliage is of that kind which must be viewed near by to understand its peculiarity, and as the form and outline of the tree are pleasing, and harmonize well with buildings, we would recommend...
Página 190 - Perhaps the finest tree in this extensive collection is the Douglas Spruce. It is sixty-two feet high, and has grown to this altitude in twenty-one years from seed. It resembles most the Norway Spruce, as one occasionally sees the finest form of that tree, having that graceful downward sweep of the branches, and feathering out quite down to the turf, but it is altogether more airy in form, and of a richer and darker green color. At this size it is the symbol of stately elegance.
Página 411 - Give fools their gold, and knaves their power ; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest ; And God and man shall own his worth Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth.
Página 67 - Natural groups . are full of openings and hollows, of trees advancing before, or retiring behind each other ; all productive of intricacy, of variety, of deep shadows and brilliant lights...
Página 434 - A New Edition, enlarged and improved, with Additions from the Author's Manuscripts, and Original Notes. Illustrated by Engravings drawn from Nature under the Supervision of Professor Agassiz.
Página 134 - Its entire length was 215 feet; its circumference three feet from the ground was 57 feet 9 inches ; and at 134 feet from the ground, 17 feet 5 inches. The trunk is unusually straight, and destitute of branches about two-thirds of the height ; the bark is uncommonly smooth for such large timber, of a light-brown colour on the south, and bleached on the north side.
Página 226 - ... from that of the Cedar of Lebanon. Its wood has a remarkably fine, close grain, capable of receiving a very high polish : so much so, indeed, that a table formed of the section of a trunk nearly 4 feet in diameter, sent by Dr. "Wallich to Mr. Lambert, has been compared to a slab of brown agate.
Página 241 - ... wonder of the botanical world. Bayard Taylor, after a graphic account of the immense size of these vegetable giants, describes the felling of one of the largest specimens, a mass of solid wood ninety feet in circumference, which was performed by two sets of hands, with the aid of two long pump augers: "After a steady labor of six weeks the thing was done, but the tree stood unmoved; so straight and symmetrical was its growth, so immense its •weight, and so broad its base, that it seemed unconscious...