On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise, Volym 2

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W. Bulmer, 1803
 

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Sida 142 - Its growth is naturally upright, and its trunk is guarded by thorns of three or four inches in length, in a remarkable manner. These thorns have also others coming out of their sides at nearly right angles : Their colour is red. The branches are smooth, and of a white colour. These are likewise armed with red thorns, that are proportionally smaller : They are of several directions, and at the ends of the branches often stand single. The young shoots of the preceding summer are perfectly smooth, of...
Sida 358 - OZIER is a tree of rather low growth, though the shoots grow amazingly long and strong in one year from the stools. The leaves are spear-shaped, narrow, long, acute, almost entire, of a blueish green on their upper side and hoary underneath, and grow on very short , footstalks. This is the most propagated of all the kinds for basket making: it admits of several sorts of difre-.
Sida 431 - depends entirely upon the soil : it is the height of folly to plant it upon light sandy soil. There is not, generally speaking, a good elm in the whole county of Norfolk : by the time they arrive •at the size of a man's waist, they begin to decay at the heart ; and, if not taken at the critical time, they presently become useless as timber. This is the case in all light soils : it is in stiff strong land which the elm delights. It is observable, however, that here it grows comparatively slow....
Sida 396 - Hyreos taxi torquentur in arcus, the artists in box most gladly employ it ; and for the cogs of mills, posts to be set in moist grounds, and everlasting axletrees, there is none to be compared with it, likewise for the bodies of lutes, theorbos, &c. yea, and for tankards to drink out of, whatever Pliny report of its shade and fatal fruit in Spain, France, and Arcadia.
Sida 240 - Another, and a never-failing method is by layers ; for if they are laid down in the ground, or a little...
Sida 198 - They are very pithy ; their young wood is green, and, when broken, emits a strong scent. The leaves grow irregularly on the branches, on long footstalks. They are of a particular structure, being composed of three lobes, the middlemost of which is shortened in such a manner that it appears as if it had been cut off and hollowed at the middle. The two others are rounded off.— They are about four or five inches long, and as many broad ; they are of two colours ; their upper surface is smooth, and...
Sida 95 - As a proof of his mission, he is said to have stuck his staff into the ground, which immediately shot forth, and blossomed.
Sida 199 - ... otherwise, by being very long, one part, perhaps that of the embryo plant, may be out of the ground soon, and the seed be lost. This being done, let the beds be hooped ; and as soon...
Sida 128 - ... &c. Its fruit too is valuable, not only for swine and deer, but as a human -food : Bread is said to have been made of it. Upon the whole, the Chesnut, whether in the light of ornament or use, is undoubtedly am object of the planter's notice.
Sida 94 - CO obtusata, and the fruit roundish, and of a golden yellow. This is a very distinct variety, and ought never to be omitted in collections. The yellow haw, Hanbury observes, is a

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