 MICHAUX says he found the large buckeye, or pavia lutea, in its greatest profusion and expansion in the mountains of the Carolinas and Georgia. He first met with it on the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, near latitude 39°. It there towers tc the height...  Forest Trees - Page 54by Arthur Bryant - 1871 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1844 - 1210 pages
...these elevated regions, appear likewise to be necessary to its utmost expansion ; it here towers to the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and is considered a certain proof of the richness of the land. The flowers of this tree are of a light,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1869 - 1296 pages
...these elevated regions, appear likewise to be necessary to its utmost expansion; it here towers to the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and a considered a certain proof of the richness of the land. The flowers of this tree are of a light,... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - 1871 - 280 pages
...curved, much longer than the pale yellow corolla; petals, four, upright; fruit, prickly; leaflets, fire. The Ohio Buckeye is commonly a small tree, but often...preceding species — hence the name of Sweet Buckeye. Its flowers and foliage are handsome, but it is usually bare of leaves by the first of September, which... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1889 - 824 pages
...He first met with it on the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, near latitude 39°. It there towers tc the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and is considered as a certain proof of the richness of the land. '' The wood," he says, •' from... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1890 - 820 pages
...He first met with it on the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, near latitude 39°. It there towers tc the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and is considered as a certain proof of the richness of the land. " The wood," he says, " from its... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1896 - 1042 pages
...He first met with it on the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, near latitude 39°. It there toweVs tc the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and is considered as a certain proof of the richness of the land. ''The wood," he says, ''from its... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1898 - 1006 pages
...He first met with it on the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, near latitude 39°. It there towers tc the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of three or four feet, and is considered as a certain proof of the richness of the land. " The wood," he says, •' from its... | |
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