An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum Abridged Containing the Hardy Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Scientifically and Popularly Described with Their Propagation, Culture and Uses in the Arts, Abridged from the Large Ed. in Eight Volumes and Adapted for the Use of Nurserymen, Gardeners, and Foresters |
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Common terms and phrases
1st edit acuminate acute álba Amer Anthers axillary bark beneath Berries Bracteas branches Brit British gardens brown Calyx Capsule Carpels catkins Char climate of London colour Corolla corymbs Decaying leaves deciduous deciduous shrub deciduous tree Dict Don's Mill downy Drupe Engravings evergreen evergreen shrub exstipulate Flowers greenish Flowers white Flowers yellow Fruit GENUS glabrous glaucous grafting green hairy Height 2 ft Hort Identification Introduced Ital lanceolate leaflets Leaves ovate Leaves simple Legume Lindl lobes Lodd low tree Michx Nepal North America oblong obovate obtuse Ovary panicles pedicels Peduncles Petals petioles plant Prod propagated pubescent purple Pursh Pursh Fl racemes reddish ripe in October ripe in September seeds Sepals Sept serrated sessile shoots shrub smooth soil Spec species Stamens Stem Stigma Stipules sub-evergreen Synonymes Syst tomentose Tourn variety Willd
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Page 646 - and are nearly as broad at the base as at the summit. The black ash is easily distinguished from the white ash by its bark, which is of a duller hue, less deeply furrowed, and has the layers of the epidermis applied in broad sheets
Page 405 - loose racemes,and in the colour of its flowers, and their greater number. It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds sent by Professor Jacquin of Vienna, in 1826. Its native country is unknown. Variety. • C.
Page 330 - are to be referred, it is now too late to enquire. The attar of roses, which is an important article of commerce, is either obtained from roses belonging to this division indiscriminately, as in the manufactory at Florence, conducted by a convent of friars; or from some particular kind, as in India.
Page 321 - Sect. Char. Branches and fruit clothed with permanent tomentum. This section is readily distinguished from the last by the woolliness of the fruit. Leaves dense, usually shining, and prickles placed under the stipules in pairs. Sepals simple, or nearly so. (Don's Mill.) — Evergreen, or subevergreen bushes. Natives of China and Nepal. • 3. R. BRACTEA'TA
Page 321 - Spec. Char., ffc. Evergreen. Branches upright, tomentose. Prickles stout, recurved, in many instances in pairs. Leaflets 5—9, obovate, subserrate, coriaceous, glossy, glabrous. Stipules scarcely attached to the petiole, bristle-shaped, but fringed. Flowers solitary, terminal, white, large. Peduncles and calyxes tomentose. Fruit globose, large, orange red. (Dec. Prod.) Evergreen. China. Height 5 ft. to
Page 333 - our fig. 586. The village maid, a striped rose, introduced by Mr. Rogers of Southampton, probably belongs to this species. Besides these, there are numerous distinct varieties, which will be found described in our first edition. The petals of some of the varieties of this rose are used in medicine, particularly of that called officinal; which,
Page 333 - exist in the prickles of the present section being straight, and the serratures of the leaves diverging. If, as is sometimes the case, the prickles of this tribe are falcate, the serratures become more diverging. The permanent sepals are another character by which this tribe may be known from
Page 880 - owing to an extraordinary developement of the cellular tissue, forms the cork ; which, after the tree is full grown, cracks and separates from it of its own accord. The inner bark remains attached to the tree, and, when removed in its young state, is only fit for tanning. The wood of the cork tree, which weighs
Page 345 - Spec. Char., fyc. Shoots ascending. Prickles upon the stem slender, recurved. Leaflets 5-—7, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly glabrous, the two surfaces of different colours. Stipules very narrow, acute. Flowers, in many instances, very numerous; white, with the claws of the petals yellow ; very fragrant. Lateral peduncles jointed, and, as well as the calyx, pilose, and almost hispid. Sepals
Page 773 - distinguishes itself, in the spring, by being loaded with handsome yellow blossoms before any of its leaves appear. The flowering branches of this species are called palms, and are gathered by children on Easter Sunday; the relics of the Catholic ceremony formerly performed in commemoration of the entry of our Saviour into Jerusalem.