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acres American AMERICAN ASPEN Attainable Height bark beautiful become berries birch black walnut blue ashes branches burr oak Cass River chestnut climate color covered cultivated deciduous durable earth England eucalyptus European Larch evergreens favorable feet high feet in height flowers foliage forests forty feet four feet fruit fuel grafting grain gray pine ground Growth.-Its Half Calf heat hickory Horse-chestnut hundred inches in diameter indigenous JOHN S. C. ABBOTT land larch laurel layers leaves logs medicinal moist mountain native Norway spruce nuts odor ornamental tree pine planted produced propagated Properties pruned reaches the height rich roots rows season seed shade Sheep shelter-belts shrub soft soil southern Sowing species spring spruce stem sugar maple thirty feet thrift thrives timber tion transplanted trunk twelve twenty United valuable variety white ash wild willows wood Wood.-Its young trees
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Page 34 - And out of the ground made the Lord GOD to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 3 - ... productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of the alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are washed away ; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because the cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up...
Page xxvii - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Page 180 - OAK — Q. Macrocarpa. This is perhaps the most ornamental of our oaks. Nothing can exceed the graceful beauty of these trees, when not crowded or cramped in their growth, but left free to follow the laws of their development. Who has not admired these trees in our extensive Burr Oak openings ? Its large leaves are a dark -green above, and a bright silvery-white beneath, which gives the tree a singularly fine appearance when agitated by the wind.
Page 141 - This species infests a great variety of plants, and is to be found throughout our country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.