A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts, Band 1Dutton and Wentworth, State printers, 1846 - 547 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acorn acuminate acute aments anthers axils bark base beautiful beneath berries birch bracts branches branchlets broad brown buds calyx catkins chestnut chestnut oak color corolla corymbs covered cultivated cymes dark deciduous diameter dots downy drupe England erect Europe feet high five fleshy FLY HONEYSUCKLE foliage footstalks forest four fruit genus glaucous gray grayish green growing growth hairy half an inch height hickory inches long lanceolate leaf leaves lobes Maple Massachusetts mid-rib native nearly numerous oblong obtuse ovary ovate panicles petals petioles pitch pine plants Plate purple racemes recent shoots reddish resemblance rich roots rounded roundish scales scarlet seeds segments sepals serrate sessile shrubs side slender small tree smooth soft soil sometimes species stalks stamens stem stigmas stipules style surface Sylva tapering terminal three inches timber trunk usually variety veins Viburnum white oak whitish willow wood yellow yellowish young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 232 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Seite 115 - Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With...
Seite 399 - 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 229 - ... cabinet and toy making, and for boarded floors; for which last purpose it is well adapted, from its whiteness, and the facility with which it is scoured ; and, also, from the difficulty with which it catches fire, and the slowness with which it burns. In these respects, it is the very reverse of deal. Poplar, like other soft woods, is generally considered not durable; but this is only the case when it is exposed to the...
Seite 360 - This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant.
Seite 148 - ... easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw ; because, besides their tenderness and loose lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years long, before which time straw becomes musty and hard.
Seite 80 - This plantation extended up the face of a hill from two hundred to four hundred feet above the level of the sea. The rocky ground of which it was composed, was covered with loose and crumbling masses of mica slate, and was not worth above £3 a year altogether.
Seite 360 - ... virgin purity, which is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea ; which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of...
Seite 480 - It is also remarkable for the irritability of its stamens, which, when the filament is touched on the inside with the point of a pin, or any other hard instrument, bend forward towards the pistil, touch the stigma with the anther, remain curved for a short time, and then partially recover their erect position : this is best seen in warm, dry we.ither.
Seite 360 - Scarcely any painter's art can so happily imitate the beauty of a fine female complexion ; still less could any artificial colour upon the face itself bear a comparison with this lovely blossom.