 Honduras, the mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers over so vast an extent of surface, that it is difficult to imagine a vegetable...  The Farmers' Register - Page 175edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | 1829 - 446 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its growth is not accurately known ; but as, when large, it changes but little... | |
 | 1830 - 438 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its growth is not accurately known ; but as, when large, it changes but little... | |
 | 1830 - 440 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...to imagine a vegetable production combining in such ii degree the qualities of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, ~ spotted with tufts of pearly...such a degree the qualities of elegance and strength. The precise period of its growth is not accurately known ; but as, when large, it changes but little... | |
 | 1837 - 368 pages
...duration. It expands into so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...£52-5; and would, had the dealers been certain of its quality, have been worth £ 1 ,000." — Timber Trots. 15. The Apple Tree though not to be compared,... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers, over BO vast an extent of surface, that it is difficult to...£525; and would, had the dealers been certain of its quality, have been worth £1,000."—Timber Trees. 15. The apple-tree, though not to be compared,... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1838 - 388 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining- green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its growth is not accurately known; but, as when large it changes but little... | |
 | 1838 - 696 pages
...duration. It expands into so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arm?, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers over so vast an estent of surface, that it is difficult to imagine a vegetable production, combining in such a degree,... | |
 | Mary Ann Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...mahogany expands to so giant a trunk, divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly...of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its growth is not accurately known, but as when large it changes but little during... | |
 | William Rhind - 1841 - 756 pages
...divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade vf its shining green leaves, spotted with tufU of pearly flowers, over so vast an extent of surface,...of elegance and strength, of beauty and sublimity. The precise period of its growth is »•' accurately known; but as, when large, it change but little... | |
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