 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1832 - 426 Seiten
...numbers lie scattered for several hundred miles along the coast. The live oak is commonly 40 or 50 feet in height, and from one to two feet in diameter ; but it is sometimes much larger. Like most other trees, it has, when insulated, a wide and tufted summit. Its trunk is sometimes undivided... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1832 - 410 Seiten
...numbers lie scattered . for several hundred miles along the coast. The live oak is commonly 40 or 50 feet in height, and from one to two feet in diameter ; but it is sometimes much larger. Like most other trees, it has, when insulated, a wide and tufted summit. Its trunk is sometimes undivided... | |
 | William Laxton - 1841 - 534 Seiten
...shore. It is most abundant, most fully developed, and of the best quality, about the bays aad creek* and on the numerous fertile islands which lie scattered...which Great Britain is so famous. Its cultivation has been tried in this country without success; but could it be imported, it would be found admirably suited... | |
 | David Stevenson - 1838 - 370 Seiten
...in great numbers lie scattered for several hundred miles along the coast. The live oak is commonly forty or fifty feet in height, and from one to two...feet in diameter, but it is sometimes much larger."* White cedar is considered the most durable wood in use in America. It grows in the Northern States... | |
 | David Stevenson - 1838 - 366 Seiten
...in great numbers lie scattered for several hundred miles along the coast. The live oak is commonly forty or fifty feet in height, and from one to two...feet in diameter, but it is sometimes much larger."* White cedar is considered the most durable wood in use in America. It grows in the Northern States... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 442 Seiten
...southern states, the Floridas and Louisiana, is known only by the name of Live Oak. It is commonly forty or fifty feet in height, and from one to two...feet in diameter; but it is sometimes much larger. Like most other trees, it has, when insulated, a wide and tufted summit. Its trunk is sometimes undivided... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1844 - 564 Seiten
...It is most abundant, most fully developed, and of the best quality, about the bays and creeks, and on the numerous fertile islands which lie scattered...which Great Britain is so famous. Its cultivation has been tried in this country without success ; but could it be imported, it would be found admirably... | |
 | 1841 - 488 Seiten
...shore. It is most abundant, most fully developed, and of the best quality, about the bays and creeks and on the numerous fertile islands which lie scattered...which Great Britain is so famous. Its cultivation has been tried in this country without success ; but could it be imported, it would be found admirably... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1842 - 538 Seiten
...creeks, and • The Svl va Americana, byj. D.Browne. Boston, 1832. on the numerous fertile islands winch lie scattered for several hundred miles along the...which Great Britain is so famous. Its cultivation has been tried in this country, without success ; but could it be imported, it would bo found admirably... | |
 | Rides - 1878 - 170 Seiten
...of the word, but consists of a lofty, straight, spiny, grooved, and dull green shaft from twenty to fifty feet in height, and from one to two feet in diameter. Prom half way up this shaft two opposite branches diverge at right angles and, taking another bend,... | |
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... lie scattered for several hundred miles along the coast. The live oak is generally forty or fifty feet in height, and from one to two feet in diameter ; but it is sometimes much larger, and its trunk is often undivided for eighteen or twenty feet.... 
