A Dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants which Furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man, in All Matters of Domestic and General Economy: Their History, Products, & UsesMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 457 pages |
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30 feet abundant Africa Anacardiaceae annual Apocynaceae aromatic article of food attaining a height attaining the height bark Bean family Leguminosa become berries branches Brazil called Carrot family Umbellifera Cinchona colour Composite family Composite family Compositæ contains Cucurbitaceae drupe eaten Euphorbiacea extensively cultivated feet high fibre flavour fleshy fruit fungus Gamboge gardens genus grass Grenada growing Guiana height of 20 highly inches in diameter inches in length India introduced islands Jamaica juice known large quantities large tree Lauracea Liliacea medicine Myrtacea name given name in India native of India native of North native of Southern North America numerous oblong obtained ornamental palm perennial herb perennial plant plant Plum poisonous produced pulp Ranunculaceae resin rhizome roots Sapindaceae seeds shrub small tree Southern Europe stem strong-growing sweet Taxaceae thick tropical America Umbellifera West Indies Western Asia winged leaves wood is hard yield
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Page 439 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 281 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 430 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Page 21 - 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.
Page 430 - ... which fruits have a colour as if they were fit to be eaten, but if you pluck them with your hands they dissolve into smoke and ashes.
Page 18 - Younger, who flourished during the end of the first and the beginning of the second centuries, it was grown in orchards ; he speaks of twenty-two distinct kinds under the names of Claudians, Pompeians, etc.
Page 273 - Indus' smiling banks the rosy shower : All, at this bounteous season, ope their urns, And pour untoiling harvest o'er the land. Nor less thy world, Columbus, drinks refresh'd, The lavish moisture of the melting year. Wide o'er his isles, the branching Oronoque Rolls a brown deluge ; and the native drives To dwell aloft on life-sufficing trees ; At once his dome, his robe, his food, and arms.