English Trees and Tree-plantingSmith Elder, 1880 - 434 pages |
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acorns acre adapted appearance attain autumn Balsam Poplar bark beautiful beds beech birch blossoms branches Britain broad-leaved catkins cause cedar cedar of Lebanon century chesnut colour common common hazel commonly cones coppice covered crop cultivated deciduous diameter districts durable early England English English elm evergreen favourable feet high foliage foot forests frost fruit furze green ground grow grown growth hardy hedge hedge-row holly hornbeam inches kinds land larch leaves Lebanon Linnæus LOCUST-TREE maple moist mountain native natural nursery lines ornamental ornamental tree osier pineaster plantations planters poplar produce propagated purpose roots sandy Scotch pine Scotland season seed seed-bed seedling shade shelter shoots shrub situations soil sown species spindle-tree spring stand surface sycamore tap root timber timber-trees tion transplanted trunk Turkey oak valuable varieties willow winter wood wych elm young plants young trees
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Page 371 - 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 141 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, VOL. III. K and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 326 - This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Page 67 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 66 - The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes, Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
Page 117 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 357 - Is there under Heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can show in my now ruined gardens at Say's Court, at any time of the year, glittering with its armed and varnished leaves ? The taller standards at orderly distances, blushing with their natural coral.
Page 149 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still and stirred not for all that.
Page 149 - English archers stept forth one pace and let fly their arrows so wholly and so thick that it seemed snow ; when the Genoese felt the arrows piercing through heads, arms, and breasts, many of them cast down their cross-bows and did cut their strings, and returned discomfited. When the French king saw them fly away, he said, ' Slay these rascals, for they shall let and trouble us without reason...
Page 34 - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home : and Adoniram was over the levy.