Chapters on trees, by M. and E. Kirby1873 |
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Common terms and phrases
abundant acorns ancient appearance attain Bamboo Baobab bark bear beautiful becomes birds boiled branches called camphor Camphor Laurel carpels carried Cassell's catkins Cedars CHAPTER CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE chestnuts Cinchona cloth gilt Cocoa-nut colour cone contain the pistils cork Cork Oak cotyledons covered crown cultivated Cypress DATE PALM Druids England Europe feet fibres fire flowers foliage forest fruit garden green ground grove grow height hundred husk Indian insects island juice kernel kind layer leaf leaves Lime-tree mountain native nature neighbours Nutmeg nuts ovary Palm pieces Pine pistils plantation plants poison pollen produce purpose resin ripe river roots seeds seen shoots slender smooth species spot spread spring stalk stamens stem Stone Pine substance supply tannin thick timber tree tribe tropical trunk turpentine utmost vegetable vessels Walnut-tree walnuts Willow wood
Popular passages
Page 132 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 121 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 78 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke...
Page 180 - ... the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs...
Page 122 - Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
Page 150 - Several of these people form what is termed a " lumbering party," composed of persons who are all either hired by a master lumberer, who pays them wages and finds them in provisions, or of individuals, who enter into an understanding with each other, to have a joint interest in the proceeds of their labour. The necessary supplies of provisions, clothing, &c., are generally obtained from the merchants on credit, in consideration of receiving the timber, which the lumberers are to...