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 - Woburnente, or a catalogue of the willows indigenous and foreign in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey.
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 122 - ... covering. It is softer than white pine, and gives a weaker hold to nails, for which reason the Canadians always join it with some more solid wood. The most common use of this tree is for rural fence, for which it is highly esteemed. The posts last 35 or 40 years, and the rails 60, or three or four times as long as those of any other species.
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.
Page 144 - Pine (P. pinea) is a native of the South of Europe, where it is decidedly the most picturesque evergreen tree of that continent. It belongs peculiarly to Italy, and its "vast canopy, supported on a naked column of great height, forms one of the chief and peculiar beauties in Italian scenery, and in the living landscapes of Claude." 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,...
Page 116 - 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 its thickly clustering acorns.
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 114 - Their ravel'd buds, and dip their flowers in gold; Ten thousand times yon moon re-light her horn, And that bright star of evening gild the morn ! Erst, when the Druid bards, with silver hair, Pour'd round thy trunk the melody of prayer; When chiefs and heroes join'd the kneeling throng, And choral virgins trill'd the...
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 124 - Gilead are shorter, blunter, and stand nearly upright, in double rows, on the upper side of the branches ; while, in the silver fir, they are flattened and irregularly single-rowed. According to Michaux, the resin of this tree is collected in America, and sold under the name of Balm of Gilead. The Norway spruce is considered to attain from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty feet in height. With the Scotch pine it is said to constitute the greatest proportion of the vast woods of...