A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volume 1 |
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... better than all the botanists , when cut down at a proper age ( from fifty to seventy years ) , is really the best timber that is known . Some tim- ber is harder , some more difficult to rend , and some less capable of being broken ...
... better than all the botanists , when cut down at a proper age ( from fifty to seventy years ) , is really the best timber that is known . Some tim- ber is harder , some more difficult to rend , and some less capable of being broken ...
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... better adapted for ship - building than when the trees are close together . In thickly planted groups , the oak will reach an elevation of eighty or a hundred feet before it begins to decay ; and in some of the choicer trees , forty ...
... better adapted for ship - building than when the trees are close together . In thickly planted groups , the oak will reach an elevation of eighty or a hundred feet before it begins to decay ; and in some of the choicer trees , forty ...
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... better soil and climate than are natural to them , and , at the same time , that the annual increase of wood be promoted by culture , it will be a decided disadvan- tage , and deteriorate the wood . In the same way , if trees be in ...
... better soil and climate than are natural to them , and , at the same time , that the annual increase of wood be promoted by culture , it will be a decided disadvan- tage , and deteriorate the wood . In the same way , if trees be in ...
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... better than sap - wood , while the northern half contained only a layer or two at the circumference . Pines , and this pine in particular , occur in much more extensive forests , and with a far less admixture of other trees , than any ...
... better than sap - wood , while the northern half contained only a layer or two at the circumference . Pines , and this pine in particular , occur in much more extensive forests , and with a far less admixture of other trees , than any ...
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... better prepared than we were for the tract of country we are now to survey , it may be proper to state , in the way of anticipation , that if he cast his eyes upon the map of Sweden , and imagine the Gulph of Bothnia to be surrounded by ...
... better prepared than we were for the tract of country we are now to survey , it may be proper to state , in the way of anticipation , that if he cast his eyes upon the map of Sweden , and imagine the Gulph of Bothnia to be surrounded by ...
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Page 272 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 57 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 288 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 287 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 224 - And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you : it shall not be eaten of.
Page 258 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 318 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 60 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 240 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Page 74 - 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.