An encyclopædia of trees and shrubs; being the Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum abridged |
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An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs; Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum ... John Claudius Loudon No preview available - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
1st edit acuminate acute alternate Amer appearance August bark base beneath Berries branches Brit British brown Calyx Char colour common Corolla dark deciduous Derivation described Don's Mill downy England Engravings entire erect Europe evergreen Flowers white Fruit gardens GENUS glabrous green greenish grow Height Height 2 ft Hort Identification Introduced Italy July June lanceolate leaflets Leaves Leaves simple less Lindl lobes Lodd Michx mountains native nearly North America oblong ovate Peduncles Petals petioles plant plate Prod produced propagated purple Pursh Racemes resembling ripe Rose seeds Sept September serrated sessile shoots short shrub Smith smooth soil Spec species spreading Stamens Stem Stigma Stipules Style surface Synonymes Syst terminal tree variety Willd wood yellow young
Popular passages
Page 615 - Acacia is one of the most common, and at the same time one of the most beautiful...
Page 788 - Leaves roundish, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated, glutinous rather abrupt ; downy at the branching of the veins beneath. (Smith.) A deciduous tree. Europe, from Lapland to Gibraltar ; and Asia, from the White Sea to Mount Caucasus ; and also the North of Africa.
Page 375 - It contracts, by drying, one eighth of its bulk. It is employed for the handles of hammers, the teeth of mill-wheels, for flails and mallets, and, when heated at the fire, for canes and walking-sticks. The branches are used, in the country, for heating ovens ; a purpose for which they are very proper, as they give out much heat, and possess the property of burning as readily when green, as in their dry state.
Page 735 - Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed, serrated throughout, very glabrous. Footstalks glandular. Ovary ovate, abrupt, nearly sessile, glabrous. Bracteas oblong, about equal to the stamens and pistils. Stigmas cloven, longer than the style. {Smith...
Page 576 - This beautiful species has, to my knowledge, not yet been introduced into the gardens. I have only seen it in its native place, and in the garden of Mr. John Bartram, near Philadelphia.
Page 701 - When fully seasoned, the wood is highly esteemed for the carriages of cannon, and for the gunwales and blocks of ships. The red elm is less multiplied than the white, and the two species are rarely found together, as the red elm requires a substantial soil, free from moisture, and even delights in elevated and open situations.
Page 743 - Stem erect. Branches spreading, downy. Leaves broadly elliptical, nearly orbicular, slightly toothed, glaucous and downy, with rectangular veins beneath. Style as long as the linear notched stigmas. (Smith Eng.
Page 408 - Its berries, which are about the size of a pea, are the finest fruit in the country ; and are used by the Cree Indians both in a fresh and in a dried state. They " make excellent puddings, very little inferior to plum-pudding.
Page 737 - Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, serrated, silky on both sides ; the lowest serratures glandular. Stamens hairy. Germen smooth, almost sessile. Stigmas deeply cloven. Scales notched. Flowers yellow ; May (London). Distribution. — Hooker (Students
Page 341 - R. multiflora have much less fringe, and the leaves are smaller, with the leaflets much less rugose. The form of the blossoms and corymbs is pretty nearly the same in both. A plant of this variety on the gable end of R.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An encyclopædia of trees and shrubs; being the Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum abridged |
| Author | John Claudius Loudon |
| Published | 1842 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2006 |
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