Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their PeculiaritiesC. Scribner's Sons, 1900 - 533 Seiten |
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Acorns aments anthers apex autumn they turn axils bark beautiful become beneath Birch Black Black Spruce borne bracts branches Branchlets bright broad caducous calyx carpels catkins cells opening longitudinally close-grained clusters color corolla Cotyledons dark brown dark green downy drupe Feather-veined filaments five inches long five-lobed Flowers.-May foliage forest Fruiting Spray full grown gray grow hairy imbricate in bud inches long inner scales involucral leaf leaflets leaves light brown lobes maple midrib monoecious oblong obovate obtuse one-half orange oval Ovary ovate ovules pale green paler panicles pedicels peduncles Petioles Pine Pistillate Pistillate flowers plant Poplar primary veins Quercus racemes reddish brown roots Samaras sapwood scaly scarlet seeds serrate sessile shining short slender slightly smooth soil species Staminate Staminate flowers stem stigma Stipules stout Strobiles Sumach thick tinged with red tomentose tomentum tree trunk two-celled wedge-shaped weight Willow Winter wood yellow green
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Seite 384 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 414 - Sits on the horizon round, a settled gloom, — Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life, but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of Nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm, that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall.
Seite 408 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Seite 409 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Seite 136 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Seite 142 - The spells were vain ; the hags returned To the queen in sorrowful mood, Crying that witches have no power Where there is rown-tree wood.
Seite 44 - THE mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall ; And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday. The baron beheld with a father's pride His beautiful child, young Lovell's bride; While she with her bright eyes seemed to be The star of the goodly company. "I'm weary of dancing now...
Seite 44 - On Christmas Eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung : tThat only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.
Seite 260 - The Mulberry Bush Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, The mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning.