Useful and Ornamental Planting: With an Index. Published Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful KnowledgeBaldwin and Cradock, 1832 - 151 pages |
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Page 59 - Woburnense: or, a catalogue of willows indigenous and foreign in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey; systematically arranged. (London) 1829. 4. xvi, 294 p., 140 tab. col. Bibl. Reg. Berol. et Mo«.
Page 111 - Great use is made of these canoes by the savages and by the French Canadians, in their long journeys into the interior of the country : they are very light, and are easily transported on the shoulders from one lake or river to another, which is called the portage. A canoe calculated for four persons with their baggage, weighs from forty to fifty pounds ; some of them are made to carry fifteen passengers.
Page 114 - Their ravell'd buds, and dip their flowers in gold, Ten thousand times yon moon relight her horn, And that bright star of evening gild the morn. Gigantic oak ! thy hoary head sublime, Erewhile must perish in the wreck of time, Should round thy head...
Page 144 - We regret that it is too tender to bear our winters, but its place may in a great measure be supplied by the Pinaster or Cluster Pine (P. pinaster), which is quite hardy, and succeeds well in the United States. This has much of the same picturesque expression, depressed or rounded head, and tall columnar...
Page 87 - Though three-fourths of our soil (North America) are still veiled from the eye of day by primeval forests, the best materials for building are nearly exhausted. With all the projected improvements in our internal navigation, whence shall we procure supplies of timber fifty years hence for the continuance of our marine ? The most urgent motives call imperiously upon Government to provide a seasonable remedy for the evil
Page 116 - ... very sweet. Nature seems to have sought a compensation for the diminutive size of this shrub in the abundance of its fruit : the stem which is sometimes no bigger than a quill, is stretched at full length upon the ground by the weight of the thickly-clustering acorns.
Page 94 - It is of humblergrowth than the magnolia grandiflora, seldom attaining to thirty or thirty-five feet in height, with a diameter of five or six inches. The leaves are eighteen or twenty inches long, and seven or eight broad ; the flowers are white, and seven or eight inches in diameter. The fruit is four or five inches long and two inches in diameter. The wood is light and porous, and unfit for use.
Page 114 - those bare scatter'd antlers strew the glade, Arm after arm shall leave the mouldering bust, And thy firm fibres crumble into dust ; The Muse alone shall consecrate thy name, And by her powerful art prolong thy fame ; Green shall thy leaves expand, thy branches play, And bloom for ever in the immortal lay.' These lines provoked the following impromptu from Lord Wensleydale : ' I'll bet a thousand pounds — -and Time will show it, That this stout tree survives the feeble poet.
Page 2 - JUDICIOUS planting and the skilful culture of plantations combine national and private interests in an eminent degree; for, besides the real or intrinsic value of the timber or ostensible crop, with other produce of woods, available for the arts and comforts of life, judicious forest-tree planting improves the general climate of the neighborhood, the staple of the soil, as regards the gradual accumulation of vegetable matter...
Page 106 - American nettle tree grows to the height of 60 or 70 feet with a diameter of 18 or 20 inches. Its branches are numerous and slender, and the limbs take their rise at a small distance from the ground, and seek a horizontal or an inclined direction. The bark is rough and entire upon the trunk, and smooth and even on the secondary branches. The leaves are alternate, about three inches long, of a dark green color, ovaloblique at the base, very acuminate at the summit, denticulated, and somewhat rough.